Hasnain says:

It’s interesting to see Apple HR supposedly shoot itself in the foot here. Beyond this immediate article though, it seems quite a massive change for Apple employees to be talking about so much stuff more publicly - I wonder if this is a culture shift that will stick.

“The company’s rules for the in-office chat app say that “Slack channels for activities and hobbies not recognized as Apple Employee clubs or Diversity Network Associations (DNAs) aren’t permitted and shouldn’t be created.”

But that rule has not been evenly enforced. Currently, Apple employees have popular Slack channels to discuss fun-dogs (more than 5,000 members), gaming (more than 3,000 members), and dad-jokes (more than 2,000 members). On August 18th, the company approved a channel called community-foosball. The cat and dog channels are not part of official clubs, and all of these channels were specifically created to talk about non-work activities.”

Posted on 2021-08-31T19:47:47+0000