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It’s amazing to me that Apple’s refusal to support remote work has caused them to be caught flat-footed here. I doubt they considered the need to be remote friendly as a contingency plan in case of a disaster, but here we are. Hopefully more companies can be more open-minded in the future; to avoid doing so could be very risky to their business.

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> I doubt they considered the need to be remote friendly as a contingency plan in case of a disaster

I seriously doubt they didn't consider it.

People don't seem to realise - global pandemic was already at the top of many national risk assessments. Nobody working in national or corporate risk or disaster management didn't already know it was the single biggest risk.

They just built a giant spaceship to try to get everybody in the same building, didn't they?

Honestly that building was oversubscribed the year they broke ground. Apple probably has half the office space in Cupertino.

> Apple probably has half the office space in Cupertino.

Almost three quarters, as of a couple years ago.

85% as of a couple of years ago.

Its capacity is something around 25k-ish, which is nowhere close to Apple's entire workforce. In fact, Apple owns tens (if not hundreds) of offices across Cupertino, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale; you can see a blue Apple logo everywhere.

IIRC, the logo you see outside buildings is a random color from a set of 5 or so. They match the Apple logo colors they use on the employee badges, which are also assigned randomly.

I think they were supposed to match the iMac colors that replaced Bondi Blue. (Many of the buildings are blue, though.)

Not everyone; there's still a couple dozen other offices scattered around the Bay Area.

Which is rather short sighted of them or at least whomever came up with their business continuity plans. Pandemic and other regional disasters should be at least covered.

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