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Here is a weird story.

Zoe Schiffer, managing editor at Platformer, hit Twitter on Thursday with something that seems to have come as a surprise to some.

Noo began the Twitter post.

Apple is tracking employee attendance via badge records and will give

employees escalating warnings if they don't come in three times per week. In a follow-up post, Schiffer said that Apple some orgs are saying

failure to comply could result in termination, but that doesn't appear to be a

company-wide policy. I know I haven't worked in a traditional work

setting for about 15 years and I know there's been a pandemic, but is showing up to

work now optional for work.

Articles written on the post highlighted recent reports that Apple was looking at ways to limit

spending, but I have to go back to my original question.

You can debate whether Apple should have called people back to the office as has been debated

for the past couple of years and you can debate whether the return to work at work was or is

necessary which has also been debated over the past couple of years. But

traditionally anyway, employers do get to say where the work will be done.

Apple wasn't the only company addressed in Schiffer's Twitter post, by the way, so was Twitter.

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