“When we find any gaps at all, which sometimes we do, we close them,” Ms. Cook and Deirdre O’Brien, Apple’s human resources chief, said in response to a question about pay equity on Friday that Apple regularly scrutinized its compensation practices to ensure it paid employees fairly. But it bleeds into other areas of the culture where it is prohibitive and damaging.” “On one hand, yes, I understand the secrecy piece is important for product security, to surprise and delight customers. “Apple has this culture of secrecy that is toxic,” said Christine Dehus, who worked at Apple for five years and left in August. Complaints about problematic managers or colleagues are frequently dismissed, and workers are afraid to criticize how the company does business, the employees who spoke to The Times said. Their issues, as well as those of eight current and former employees who spoke to The Times, vary among them are workplace conditions, unequal pay and the company’s business practices.Ī common theme is that Apple’s secrecy has created a culture that discourages employees from speaking out about their workplace concerns - not with co-workers, not with the press and not on social media. The group has begun posting some of the anonymous stories online and has been encouraging colleagues to contact state and federal labor officials with their complaints. Over the past month, more than 500 people who said they were current and former Apple employees have submitted accounts of verbal abuse, sexual harassment, retaliation and discrimination at work, among other issues, to an employee-activist group that calls itself #AppleToo, said Cher Scarlett and Janneke Parrish, two Apple employees who help lead the group. But his response was a notable acknowledgment that the workplace and social issues that have been roiling Silicon Valley for several years have taken root at Apple.
Cook answered only two of what activist employees said were a number of questions they had wanted to ask in a meeting broadcast to employees around the world, according to a recording obtained by The New York Times. On Friday, Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, answered questions from workers in an all-staff meeting for the first time since the public surfacing of employee concerns over topics ranging from pay equity to whether the company should assert itself more on political matters like Texas’ restrictive abortion law. SAN FRANCISCO - Apple, known among its Silicon Valley peers for a secretive corporate culture in which workers are expected to be in lock step with management, is suddenly facing an issue that would have been unthinkable a few years ago: employee unrest.
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