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Some Apple staff feel more confident to speak about their employer amongst themselves, to the press, and on social media due to the company’s switch to remote working and increased use of Slack over the past year, The Information reports.
Apple’s Slack became a “virtual town square” at the company, providing a platform for employees to protest the return to in-person work, decisions to hire controversial new employees, and more. Until the transition to remote working last year due to the global health crisis, Apple’s culture of secrecy limited the opportunities for grassroots employees to organize independently.
Apple employees are asked to sign multiple agreements vowing to not disclose information about their work, including to spouses and other colleagues at the company. When work was conducted in person before last year’s changes, the interaction between different parts of the company was heavily limited, with physical access to other departments being restricted to those authorized to be there. A software engineer in Apple’s global security team, Cher Scarlett, said:
Before Slack, it was difficult for employees to talk to somebody who works in retail unless you went to the store. It was impossible to talk to someone who works in hardware as I don’t work with anyone there. You’re giving people a platform that allows them to connect with people they wouldn’t ordinarily connect with.
A former Apple procurement manager told The Information that Apple’s internal employee directory was so difficult to navigate that it was virtually impossible to find out, for example, who was in charge of iPad marketing in Latin America.
In the fall of 2019, Apple allowed its various teams to start adopting Slack at their own pace. Until the glo
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