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How Slack changed Apple’s employee culture, with Zoë Schiffer — Decoder with Nilay Patel

Apple has had a lot going on lately: we did a whole episode about the controversial child protection photo scanning features, which have now been delayed. A law in South Korea might force the company to change how App Store payments work; the company settled a Japanese case about the App Store recently, as well as a class-action lawsuit in this country. The verdict in the Epic trial will arrive and there are renewed questions about Apple’s relationship with the Chinese government. And, of course, it’s September — the month when new iPhones usually come out. But in the background, Verge senior reporter Zoë Schiffer has spent the past few months publishing story after story about unhappy Apple employees, who are starting to talk to the press more and more about what working at Apple is like, and how they’d like it to change. Nilay Patel talks to Zoë about the work she’s been doing and what the future holds. Links: Here’s why Apple’s new child safety features are so controversial https://bit.ly/3n9E07W Apple…

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Brett Wischow core team
over 2 years ago

Chief Growth Officer @ Platform Venture Studio

super interesting interview with Zoë Schiffer about how Slack totally reinvented corporate culture at Apple and basically became the organizing tool for employees (and how they might now unionize). I think this points to a larger issue for Momentus where we can't just be a place to organize as those exist already- we have to add some value beyond that. JB and I have talked about having commitments from stakeholders and having that forced accountability. I think that touches on it, but we need to do some more digging for sure.