Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Policy

In a shocking move, Apple's director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, has resigned from his role due to the company's plan to return to in-person work. According to reports, Goodfellow broke the news to staff in an email, stating that he strongly believes that more work flexibility would have been the best policy for his team. He also expressed his disappointment at Apple's decision to require employees to work at the office at least one day per week by April 11th, two days per week by April or May 2nd, and at least three days per week by May 23rd.

Goodfellow's resignation is not an isolated incident, but rather a symptom of a larger trend in the tech industry. With the rise of remote work, many employees are taking advantage of the flexibility to live and work from anywhere they choose. This has led to a significant shift in the way people approach their careers and lifestyles. As one tech worker noted, "If you can make $200,000 with your salary and rsus and go to Bellingham, Washington and make that same money, it's like now you're living like a sultan."

The impact of remote work on property prices is also being felt across the country. With more people able to afford homes in desirable locations, property values are skyrocketing. This has created a housing crisis in many areas, with tech workers driving up demand and prices for housing. As one expert noted, "If you can make a good salary from anywhere, why do you need to live in a specific city or region? It's changing the way we think about work and living."

The rise of remote work has also led to the creation of a new breed of worker: the digital nomad. These individuals are able to travel the world while maintaining their careers, often using virtual reality (VR) headsets to stay connected with colleagues and clients. One tech worker noted, "I've been giving this a lot of thought, and I think one of the strange things that's happening is that remote work has disconnected people from each other." He added, "It's driving up property prices in all these places that surround us, not just tech areas."

The trend towards remote work is also changing the way companies approach talent acquisition and retention. With more employees able to work from anywhere, companies are having to adapt their policies and strategies to attract and retain top talent. As one expert noted, "It's like we're entering a new era of flexibility and mobility in the workforce." This shift has created both opportunities and challenges for companies, but it's clear that remote work is here to stay.

In conclusion, Ian Goodfellow's resignation from Apple highlights the challenges faced by companies trying to balance the needs of their employees with the demands of the modern workplace. As the tech industry continues to evolve, it will be interesting to see how companies adapt to this new reality and what opportunities and challenges arise from it.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enshould we do the uh the apple work from home story i do think this is an interesting work from home story or a developing story i should say and this is affecting companies worldwide especially i know we have a lot of tech people that are here watching this and this is an interesting story if you work in tech if you work anywhere but especially if you work in tech because people are not enthusiastic about going back to the office and apple's got like a mutiny on their hands i don't know if anyone's following this story but they are trying to get people to come back to the office well first they said two days a week and now they are going up to three days a week and uh there was a story was it yesterday that uh they're actually delaying that right louis uh well they're uh what they're doing is slowing the pace i mean they were supposed to be back at their desk three days a week later this month but you know here in the bay area covet cases are rising again you know everybody's getting a little alerts on their watches and their phones like ah you've been exposed to somebody who has coping uh so now they're going to uh require them to be in the offices two days a week is their plan two days um you know i yeah it's it's kind of wild you know people are adamant about not going back people are threatening to resign um i i you know i don't know what to think about it i mean i i understand why apple wants people back i mean i think it's i think we're two and a half years into a completely unnatural situation and i mean i i i can't imagine running a company that big all remotely but at the same time you know like if if you i mean i there are a lot of people in san francisco that worked on there i mean i had a friend who worked there and and he you know two days or two hours a day on a bus right i mean at least he didn't have to drive himself at least he was able to hop on the bus and and go down and they could even after a certain period of time they were even allowed to count that as as time on the job you know because they have a a laptop and they're working on their way down there right which which by the way speaking of things that'll make you vomit i would do that immediately if i had to type and read on oh yeah i would get so cars let me ask the chat this while we're talking here i got a question for you guys okay someone asked me this and i thought it was a really interesting question let's say that well if you work from home okay or you work from home part-time how much extra money would your company have to give you to come back full-time what is that what is that number to you is it twenty thousand is it a hundred thousand i think everyone's got a number i think i have mine and i have been working from home for probably seven years now maybe longer it was kind of like hybrid for a while but um i decided pretty early when i had kids that i wasn't gonna take a job where i had to go in full time because i actually love my kids i want to see my kids as much as possible especially why they're young and for those of you that don't know i got i got four young kids they all look just like me beautiful super intelligent long luscious curly hair and you know soft-spoken yeah soft-spoken unopinionated you know they're more opinionated than uh i would sometimes prefer to be honest with you especially about dinner from being honest a lot of complaining about dinner that happened but just think about these you put the goggles on all of them and they'll just be like oh yeah these are these are delicious corn dogs that would only cost me oh corn dogs isn't a problem lewis it's when you get anything green on the plate it only cost me what 12 grand to outfit my four kids with uh apple mixed reality headsets that actually might be worth it for uh for for the complaining but i i you once you get used to working from home you don't have to shower to go in you don't have to get ready you don't have to prepare your lunch there's no commuting i mean in the seattle area it's it's easy for you to waste two hours a day just commuting and then there's the whole getting ready and then you don't get to see your kids and now i'm broadcasting from cult command this is where i work i built this in my in in my yard so that i could work from home and be away from my family but i get to go in see my kids once they get too rowdy i'm like all right i'm out of here but i can eat dinner with them i think i get to see them all throughout the day and those those interactions are priceless to me i would not trade those if you wanted me to come in full time it would probably cost you an extra i'm going to say probably 60 grand you'd have to pay me an extra 60 grand now look wow i realize that's a privileged position to be in like there's a lot of people who who wouldn't be able to to to make a demand like that and and most people probably wouldn't even give you an extra 60 grand if you wanted it but that's how much it's worth to me so like i would rather take a job that paid 60 grand less to work remotely because it i just think it's that much better just from a life and stress perspective it's just it's so much better working for a mom i think oh yeah i i i see people that do the commutes i mean uh you know i i just can't imagine burning that much of your life driving especially in the bay area when it's like i mean other parts of the country i think it's a little bit more predictable but here sometimes it could be 20 minutes or it could be an hour and a half and never knowing exactly how much time difference is gonna be oh my god and then and then that the price of gasoline these days oh dude yeah you factor that in right yeah and for me like we uh when when um i was younger there's this bridge that crosses the um uh from seattle to the the other side of the water is like bellevue and like the other side of um kind of like the tech hub in this area it's like seattle and bellevue and there's a bridge and it was free you could just cross it and now they have tools on that bridge and it's like dude you could pay you could pay eight bucks nine bucks just to cross the bridge one way you know what i mean and so now you got to add that into your cost all right here we go in the chat we got uh we got sparkle boom saying double they'd have to pay him double which means i'm gonna guess you know go from 200 000 to 400 000 because he's a high quality individual we got jeff drewen saying no amount i'm about to buy a camper and work on the road nice you're a developer that's pretty appealing let's see here streamline is saying been working at home since 2020 maybe 30k to get me to go back in level remix is saying 40 40 raised i thought he's in 40k 40 race riot striker they would have to pay for my gas that's it right strike is pretty easy going but he's got a great job he's uh he's like on on that uh elite military force where they kick your door and they're like they're like here comes stryker and he kicks his foot through your door and he blows you away this uh 12 gauge so that'd be pretty cool uh let's see here i've been told my laundry during meetings oh i fooled my laundry dream i have literally done not recently but i have literally done meetings from bed like i'm just like if it's a meeting that i don't have to say anything in and the camera doesn't have to be on i'm like i'll just be in bed you know it's just like a listening meeting i'm just here to listen you don't need me to talk i'll be in bed for that i don't know man so so apple has this major problem right there's a lot of people inside apple who are really upset that they have to go back to work and apple is having a retention problem just like other tech companies in fact there was a story that i think was out a couple weeks ago that you guys may have seen apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work apple's director of machine learning ian goodfillo ian goodfellow has resigned from his role a little more a little over four years after he joined the company um after previously being one of google's top ai employees according to the verge so so so they lost this guy because he didn't want to come back to the office full time let's see here the story goes on a good fellow reportedly broke the news to staff in an email saying his resignation is part it is in part due to apple's plan to return to in-person work which require employees to work at the office at least one day per week by april 11th two days per week by april or may 2nd and at least three days per week by may 23rd so the may 23rd day is the one they just postponed he goes on to say i strongly believe that more work flexibility would have been the best policy for my team and there are just countless people that i know that have kids especially that are developers that want to go on the road in their camper and they're like i don't want to go into the office anymore and and if there's one good thing that came out of covid it's the fact that it kind of changed work culture i think is that companies realized we could have people just work from home we'll make our tools better so they can collaborate better and they change their policies permanently like facebook is one of them i think they said they're going to have half their workforce off site by some date in the future that's crazy but the other thing i'm sorry i'm rambling but i've been giving this a lot of thought the other strange situation has been created by this whole work from home culture especially amongst tech workers is it has allowed people for the first time in i think in the history of the world it has allowed people with um it has disconnected people uh and there's in the earning potential from the places that they live right if if you lived in the city you would make way more money than someone who was in a more rural area and now that's just not true you can take your high paid tech job with you wherever you go and move somewhere that's a lot cheaper to live and what is happening is it's driving up the property prices in all these places that surround you know tech areas or even don't surround tech areas like the whole state of washington has been lit up with super high property prices which i think there's more reasons than just the uh tech checker workers moving all over the place but it allows tech workers to take their salaries and just go wherever they want and pay as much as they need to to get a house and it's like just making the price of housing go up everywhere so it's a really interesting time because if you can make 200 grand with your salary and rsus and and go to you know bellingham washington and and make that same money it's like now the sudden you're living like a sultan you're living like el caney yeah it's crazy and the whole thing of like uh if you see some of the rigs people have you know they the digital nomads like this guy in the chat was talking about uh getting a van right i mean i had a friend who did that he went on just basically said oh well i think i'll live here for a while i think i'll live there for a while you just it's it's very appealing i mean if you are footloose and fancy free if there's one thing you guys need to know about me i'm footloose i never i never miss a chance to come slide into the living room in my socks and my uh and my white briefs and your loose feet and my feet just get loose you know what i'm seeing they're all over the place it's like uh james brown action oh nice bust out one of those michael jackson kicks you know lewis yeah you have to uh show us that i'd love to see you do some fancy right now some fancy foot action what do you think liz uh i don't think so you got any fancy action you can show us before we wrap up here i've i've kicked someone in the you know once or twice but that's about it okay i just figured since you're in a band like you probably get into it doing some fancy action i'm not a dancer unfortunately um i think everyone's a dancer deep down there are just those that are willing to show it and those i like to do it in private you know what i'm saying and with your vr headset on all right i think that's all we got looseshould we do the uh the apple work from home story i do think this is an interesting work from home story or a developing story i should say and this is affecting companies worldwide especially i know we have a lot of tech people that are here watching this and this is an interesting story if you work in tech if you work anywhere but especially if you work in tech because people are not enthusiastic about going back to the office and apple's got like a mutiny on their hands i don't know if anyone's following this story but they are trying to get people to come back to the office well first they said two days a week and now they are going up to three days a week and uh there was a story was it yesterday that uh they're actually delaying that right louis uh well they're uh what they're doing is slowing the pace i mean they were supposed to be back at their desk three days a week later this month but you know here in the bay area covet cases are rising again you know everybody's getting a little alerts on their watches and their phones like ah you've been exposed to somebody who has coping uh so now they're going to uh require them to be in the offices two days a week is their plan two days um you know i yeah it's it's kind of wild you know people are adamant about not going back people are threatening to resign um i i you know i don't know what to think about it i mean i i understand why apple wants people back i mean i think it's i think we're two and a half years into a completely unnatural situation and i mean i i i can't imagine running a company that big all remotely but at the same time you know like if if you i mean i there are a lot of people in san francisco that worked on there i mean i had a friend who worked there and and he you know two days or two hours a day on a bus right i mean at least he didn't have to drive himself at least he was able to hop on the bus and and go down and they could even after a certain period of time they were even allowed to count that as as time on the job you know because they have a a laptop and they're working on their way down there right which which by the way speaking of things that'll make you vomit i would do that immediately if i had to type and read on oh yeah i would get so cars let me ask the chat this while we're talking here i got a question for you guys okay someone asked me this and i thought it was a really interesting question let's say that well if you work from home okay or you work from home part-time how much extra money would your company have to give you to come back full-time what is that what is that number to you is it twenty thousand is it a hundred thousand i think everyone's got a number i think i have mine and i have been working from home for probably seven years now maybe longer it was kind of like hybrid for a while but um i decided pretty early when i had kids that i wasn't gonna take a job where i had to go in full time because i actually love my kids i want to see my kids as much as possible especially why they're young and for those of you that don't know i got i got four young kids they all look just like me beautiful super intelligent long luscious curly hair and you know soft-spoken yeah soft-spoken unopinionated you know they're more opinionated than uh i would sometimes prefer to be honest with you especially about dinner from being honest a lot of complaining about dinner that happened but just think about these you put the goggles on all of them and they'll just be like oh yeah these are these are delicious corn dogs that would only cost me oh corn dogs isn't a problem lewis it's when you get anything green on the plate it only cost me what 12 grand to outfit my four kids with uh apple mixed reality headsets that actually might be worth it for uh for for the complaining but i i you once you get used to working from home you don't have to shower to go in you don't have to get ready you don't have to prepare your lunch there's no commuting i mean in the seattle area it's it's easy for you to waste two hours a day just commuting and then there's the whole getting ready and then you don't get to see your kids and now i'm broadcasting from cult command this is where i work i built this in my in in my yard so that i could work from home and be away from my family but i get to go in see my kids once they get too rowdy i'm like all right i'm out of here but i can eat dinner with them i think i get to see them all throughout the day and those those interactions are priceless to me i would not trade those if you wanted me to come in full time it would probably cost you an extra i'm going to say probably 60 grand you'd have to pay me an extra 60 grand now look wow i realize that's a privileged position to be in like there's a lot of people who who wouldn't be able to to to make a demand like that and and most people probably wouldn't even give you an extra 60 grand if you wanted it but that's how much it's worth to me so like i would rather take a job that paid 60 grand less to work remotely because it i just think it's that much better just from a life and stress perspective it's just it's so much better working for a mom i think oh yeah i i i see people that do the commutes i mean uh you know i i just can't imagine burning that much of your life driving especially in the bay area when it's like i mean other parts of the country i think it's a little bit more predictable but here sometimes it could be 20 minutes or it could be an hour and a half and never knowing exactly how much time difference is gonna be oh my god and then and then that the price of gasoline these days oh dude yeah you factor that in right yeah and for me like we uh when when um i was younger there's this bridge that crosses the um uh from seattle to the the other side of the water is like bellevue and like the other side of um kind of like the tech hub in this area it's like seattle and bellevue and there's a bridge and it was free you could just cross it and now they have tools on that bridge and it's like dude you could pay you could pay eight bucks nine bucks just to cross the bridge one way you know what i mean and so now you got to add that into your cost all right here we go in the chat we got uh we got sparkle boom saying double they'd have to pay him double which means i'm gonna guess you know go from 200 000 to 400 000 because he's a high quality individual we got jeff drewen saying no amount i'm about to buy a camper and work on the road nice you're a developer that's pretty appealing let's see here streamline is saying been working at home since 2020 maybe 30k to get me to go back in level remix is saying 40 40 raised i thought he's in 40k 40 race riot striker they would have to pay for my gas that's it right strike is pretty easy going but he's got a great job he's uh he's like on on that uh elite military force where they kick your door and they're like they're like here comes stryker and he kicks his foot through your door and he blows you away this uh 12 gauge so that'd be pretty cool uh let's see here i've been told my laundry during meetings oh i fooled my laundry dream i have literally done not recently but i have literally done meetings from bed like i'm just like if it's a meeting that i don't have to say anything in and the camera doesn't have to be on i'm like i'll just be in bed you know it's just like a listening meeting i'm just here to listen you don't need me to talk i'll be in bed for that i don't know man so so apple has this major problem right there's a lot of people inside apple who are really upset that they have to go back to work and apple is having a retention problem just like other tech companies in fact there was a story that i think was out a couple weeks ago that you guys may have seen apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work apple's director of machine learning ian goodfillo ian goodfellow has resigned from his role a little more a little over four years after he joined the company um after previously being one of google's top ai employees according to the verge so so so they lost this guy because he didn't want to come back to the office full time let's see here the story goes on a good fellow reportedly broke the news to staff in an email saying his resignation is part it is in part due to apple's plan to return to in-person work which require employees to work at the office at least one day per week by april 11th two days per week by april or may 2nd and at least three days per week by may 23rd so the may 23rd day is the one they just postponed he goes on to say i strongly believe that more work flexibility would have been the best policy for my team and there are just countless people that i know that have kids especially that are developers that want to go on the road in their camper and they're like i don't want to go into the office anymore and and if there's one good thing that came out of covid it's the fact that it kind of changed work culture i think is that companies realized we could have people just work from home we'll make our tools better so they can collaborate better and they change their policies permanently like facebook is one of them i think they said they're going to have half their workforce off site by some date in the future that's crazy but the other thing i'm sorry i'm rambling but i've been giving this a lot of thought the other strange situation has been created by this whole work from home culture especially amongst tech workers is it has allowed people for the first time in i think in the history of the world it has allowed people with um it has disconnected people uh and there's in the earning potential from the places that they live right if if you lived in the city you would make way more money than someone who was in a more rural area and now that's just not true you can take your high paid tech job with you wherever you go and move somewhere that's a lot cheaper to live and what is happening is it's driving up the property prices in all these places that surround you know tech areas or even don't surround tech areas like the whole state of washington has been lit up with super high property prices which i think there's more reasons than just the uh tech checker workers moving all over the place but it allows tech workers to take their salaries and just go wherever they want and pay as much as they need to to get a house and it's like just making the price of housing go up everywhere so it's a really interesting time because if you can make 200 grand with your salary and rsus and and go to you know bellingham washington and and make that same money it's like now the sudden you're living like a sultan you're living like el caney yeah it's crazy and the whole thing of like uh if you see some of the rigs people have you know they the digital nomads like this guy in the chat was talking about uh getting a van right i mean i had a friend who did that he went on just basically said oh well i think i'll live here for a while i think i'll live there for a while you just it's it's very appealing i mean if you are footloose and fancy free if there's one thing you guys need to know about me i'm footloose i never i never miss a chance to come slide into the living room in my socks and my uh and my white briefs and your loose feet and my feet just get loose you know what i'm seeing they're all over the place it's like uh james brown action oh nice bust out one of those michael jackson kicks you know lewis yeah you have to uh show us that i'd love to see you do some fancy right now some fancy foot action what do you think liz uh i don't think so you got any fancy action you can show us before we wrap up here i've i've kicked someone in the you know once or twice but that's about it okay i just figured since you're in a band like you probably get into it doing some fancy action i'm not a dancer unfortunately um i think everyone's a dancer deep down there are just those that are willing to show it and those i like to do it in private you know what i'm saying and with your vr headset on all right i think that's all we got loose\n"