Apple closing all retail stores outside of Greater China

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Multinational tech company Apple has just announced it will close all stores. In a statement the company said:

In all of our offices, we are moving to flexible work arrangements worldwide outside of Greater China. That means team members should work remotely if their job allows, and those whose work requires them to be on site should follow guidance to maximize interpersonal space. Extensive, deep cleaning will continue at all sites. In all our offices, we are rolling out new health screenings and temperature checks.

The global spread of COVID-19 is affecting every one of us. We will be closing all of our retail stores outside of Greater China until March 27. Our online stores are open ... All of our hourly workers will continue to receive pay in alignment with business as usual operations. We have expanded our leave policies to accommodate personal or family health circumstances created by Covid-19.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/14/coronavirus-live-updates-uk-us-australia-italy-europe-school-shutdown-sport-events-cancelled-latest-update-news?page=with:block-5e6c86fd8f088d757559341b#block-5e6c86fd8f088d757559341b

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Hell, they JUST opened them back up.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Everything is FUBAR.

[Jirel]

3. This makes a certain sense.

It sounds like it’s less about social distancing per se, and more about getting a health check regimen in place, and cleaning all the massive amount of equipment that people are constantly touching. Probably also figuring out a regimen to disinfect ball that stuff daily.

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. Two words

"Touch screens"

[lunasun]

5. ++Good move Always too many people in them here and too much touchy stuff for what's up now