There are many reasons why people want to leave their jobs at work, whether it is because of the content of the work, it may be because of interpersonal relationships, or it may be because of working hours and patterns. For example, Ian Goodfellow, the machine learning director of Apple's special project team, chose to leave because he was dissatisfied with Apple's office reopening plan.
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Ian Goodfellow's resume has a brighter achievement than apple director and former Google research scientist — developing GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) that have swept machine learning. This generative model has a generative network and a discriminant network, and the two neural networks learn by playing games with each other.
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Since the birth of the GAN model, the AI field has more room to play. With the help of this generative model, you can color black and white photos, you can synthesize new images and videos, you can repair pictures, and the face-changing effects such as the "transformation comic" that was fired on Douyin earlier are also achieved by relying on GANs.
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In recent years, the covid-19 pandemic has led many companies to choose to let employees work remotely from home, and Apple and Google are among them. But in early 2022, big tech companies such as Apple and Google announced that they would gradually return employees to the office for offline work.
However, it is not always back to the previous mode, and Apple has chosen to use the "mixed working mode". This "hybrid work model" combines telecommuting with back-to-office work and implements the 3 antenna + 2 antenna scenario in phases.
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Apple requires employees to return to the office starting April 11, initially requiring them to be in the office at least one day a week. Starting May 4, the office hours will be increased to two days a week. Starting May 23, employees will need to work in the office three days a week.
In an email from Ian Goodfellow to employees on Twitter, he said, "I firmly believe that greater flexibility will be the best policy for my team." Perhaps it was the longer and longer offline office hours that made him choose to leave.
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While Apple has plans to resume offline work, it also provides some flexibility for teams, allowing managers to adjust as they see fit. Perhaps, Goodfellow's team didn't make the adjustments they wanted.
The fundamental reason for his choice to leave Apple may not be as superficial as we seem, and we don't know, but one thing is clear to everyone - employees who have adapted to telecommuting do not want to go back to the office.
In fact, before Ian Goodfellow chose to leave, an employee had already written a letter to CEO Cook expressing dissatisfaction with Apple's plan to resume offline work.
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It's not just Apple, it's actually a problem for many companies, especially tech companies like Apple and Google that can do a lot of work on the Web and portable laptops: Is there really a need for employees to have to go back to the office to work?
As it stands, most companies agree that this is necessary, but there is also a "special case" in it - Airbnb. In a recent interview, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky argued that the office was a bit of an anachronistic form, a product of the pre-digital age.
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As a result, Airbnb also announced that the company's employees can choose to work remotely on a permanent basis, and that salaries will not go down. However, he does not think that running a company is therefore unnecessary, because people will not all want to work from home, they need a space, and the company will have a usable space. In short, what he wanted was more flexibility.
After being "forced" to work remotely for long periods of time, many employees find that their productivity has not diminished, and some have even improved. At the same time, there is more time with the family, and the trouble of commuting and the resulting increase in the cost of living are also alleviated to a certain extent. However, for the company, employees can have a better collaborative atmosphere when working in the office, which is also helpful for the cultivation and popularization of corporate culture.
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In a way, what employees want is in conflict with what the company wants. In the face of this contradiction, Apple and Airbnb have adopted a plan that actually wants to achieve a balance between the two, but how to achieve the optimal balance? It's also a problem.