Sil Pal, well-known among his Silicon Valley peers for cultivating a hidden corporate culture in which employees are expected to follow orders without question, is now confronted with a situation that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago: employee dissatisfaction.
Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed questions from employees for the first time on Friday in an all-staff meeting, after the publicization of employee concerns about problems ranging from employee pay equality to the firm being more aggressive on political matters such as those in the state of Texas. Abortion legislation that is preventative in nature.
A staff-activist organisation calling itself #AppleToo has received more than 500 submissions from individuals who claim to be current or former Apple Paul workers. The problems they report include verbal abuse, sexual harassment, retribution, and workplace discrimination, among other things. In addition to Cher Scarlett and Janneke Parrish, two more Apple workers are involved in the group’s leadership.
Members of the organisation have started publishing anonymous tales on the internet, and they are pushing their colleagues to file complaints with state and federal labour authorities. Among the concerns raised by them, as well as those raised by eight current and former workers who talked with The Times, were work environment conditions, uneven pay, and business practises.
One recurring theme is that Apple’s commitment to privacy has resulted in a working culture that inhibits employees from raising concerns about their jobs with colleagues, with the press, or on social media platforms such as Twitter. In interviews with The Times, employees expressed concern that concerns about troublesome supervisors or colleagues are often ignored, and that they are reluctant to express their views on how the organisation does business.
