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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by Lammy on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:40PM (#28012708)
I agree with you, but these companies all own a lot of real estate they need to be able to justify on their balance sheets. Apple just built a giant new campus before The Event so of course they want to justify it by seeing butts in chairs.
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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by haliskerbas on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:48PM (#28012801)
I’m sure the (widely considered, not universally) most innovative and maybe most profitable company in the world could figure out something to do with that office space.

Perhaps make it a hub for more teams, and close down rental spaces all over the bay. Make the gym and cafeteria way bigger.

Obviously this is arm chair thinking on my part, but I find it hard to believe that given enough thought they couldn’t make the numbers work out.

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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by Aeolun on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:12PM (#28013056)
Or just accept that the numbers don’t work out. The numbers cannot possibly have worked out for the past year, but it hasn’t hurt them any.
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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by joegahona on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:34PM (#28013246)
> Apple just built a giant new campus before The Event so of course they want to justify it by seeing butts in chairs.

Same with Asana, whose founder recently announced[1] "Asana will have an office-centric synchronized hybrid environment," which is another way of saying "employees may work from home on Wednesdays only."

[1] https://twitter.com/moskov/status/1384556019636862982

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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by wmf on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:59PM (#28012922)
Before the pandemic, Apple's problem was having far too many employees to fit in the spaceship. They can probably fill that campus just with people voluntarily returning.
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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by MarcScott on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:03PM (#28012968)
I'm guessing you're referencing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE
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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by ineedasername on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:42PM (#28013315)
Sublease! Imagine the social capital a company could get by bragging about being located on the Apple campus. That would be worth a high premium over other leased spaces.
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