Apple probably won’t reopen its offices until 2021
Apple is encouraging US employees — both corporate and retail — to work from home.
Shelby Brown
July 13, 2020 1:44 p.m. PT
Apple likely won’t be back to normal working operations this year.
As coronavirus cases surge across the US, Apple reportedly no longer expects to have corporate employees return to offices in 2020. The tech giant is also encouraging retail employees to work remotely as more store locations shutter, according to a report from Bloomberg on Monday.
Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The tech giant, which held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference online last month, began closing stores internationally and restricting employee travel in early March. Later that month, Apple made the call to keep all its US stores shuttered indefinitely. While some Apple stores began to reopen in May, rising numbers of coronavirus cases led the company to close them once again this month. People can still shop online.
Apple recloses more stores due to coronavirus spikes
The iPhone maker is reportedly shuttering 30 more stores again as COVID-19 cases increase.
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Apple is reportedly reclosing 30 more stores because of surging coronavirus cases. The closures will happen in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana and Alabama, according to a tweet from Mark Gurman of Bloomberg News.
In recent weeks, Apple has reclosed 77 US stores, according to a report from CNBC. Apple had announced in late May that it would reopen more than 100 of its 271 US stores across 21 states. The company planned to offer only storefront and curbside service as lockdowns were easing around the world.
Source: https://www.cnet.com/health/apple-probably-wont-reopen-its-offices-until-2021-report-says/
