Apple told its employees that it will be delaying a return to office policy in 2022. The timeline has been pushed back due to the COVID-19 delta variant. Apple is urging employees to get vaccinated, and it will be letting employees know at least a month in advance when they can return to the office. No retail locations or offices will be shut down.
Originally, employees were supposed to return to the office for a three-day work schedule at the beginning of September.
Other tech giants such as Facebook and Amazon are also delaying opening their offices for employees to come back to work.
Many large companies are bringing back mass mandates and are requiring wearing masks at work due to the surge in the COVID-19 delta variant.
Apple is looking forward to having people back in the office again as it says its most creative work is developed in offices with people collaborating together.
“Despite a smooth transition to remote working, it was not an adequate replacement for in-person collaboration,” CEO Tim Cook had said in an earlier communication to employees. Many employees were hesitant to go back to work in the office due to the pandemic and were threatening to leave the company.
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