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Some Apple senior executives, as well as engineers working on hardware and software, have been spending time at the office as the company gears up for a series of new product launches in the second half of 2020.
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Covid-19: Apple tells staff that first phase of return to HQ begins on June 15

Apple Inc. instructed workers at its fundamental Silicon Valley headquarters that the primary part of a plan to return to the workplace will start on June 15, however careworn that the majority staff gained’t return for a number of months not less than.

Phase 1 shall be “very limited” and staff will solely be allowed within the workplace on sure days relying on their job, the Cupertino, California-based firm wrote in a latest memo to workers. More particulars shall be shared later this month, it added.

Apple additionally reiterated within the memo that it’s limiting how many individuals are allowed in buildings and different work space concurrently, implementing social distancing, taking temperatures and requiring staff on the workplace to cross a each day well being examine. It additionally “strongly encouraged” workers to take on-site or at-home Covid-19 checks supplied by the corporate earlier than returning.

Masks shall be required always throughout Apple’s Silicon Valley workplaces, which incorporates the principle Apple Park campus, the earlier Infinite Loop headquarters and different areas, in line with the memo. An Apple spokesman declined to remark.

Read extra: Apple Offering Covid-19 Testing to Staff Returning to Offices

While the Phase 1 course of doesn’t formally start till subsequent week, some Apple staff have already began returning, Bloomberg News reported final month. In areas outdoors Silicon Valley, the primary part began in May.

Some Apple senior executives, in addition to engineers engaged on {hardware} and software program, have been spending time on the workplace as the corporate gears up for a sequence of latest product launches within the second half of 2020. A small portion of workers remained all through the Covid-19 lockdown interval.

Read extra: Apple Culture of Secrecy Tested by Employees Working Remotely

Apple is transferring faster than another tech firms that focus extra on software program than {hardware}. Alphabet Inc.’s Google is slowly re-opening extra workplaces, beginning July 6. San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. has stated staff can work away from the workplace endlessly, whereas Facebook Inc. expects as a lot as 50% of its workforce could also be distant in 10 years.

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