If you’re exploring the world of companies offering remote jobs right now, you’re in luck. At the world’s largest companies – in both the tech sector and beyond – there’s a huge range of roles that you can complete from the comfort of your own home in 2024.
In this guide, we’ll run through some of the most recently-listed remote roles Apple is currently taking applications for, the ups and downs of remote working, and why more and more employees are demanding flexible working arrangements.
If you’re not set on working for the tech behemoth and are open to exploring other options, check out our guides to remote jobs currently open at Microsoft and Google.
Fully Remote jobs to Apply for at Apple in 2024
On Apple’s jobs portal, there are currently 64 open roles at the tech giant with the “Home Office” tag – and more than half of them were posted in the last three weeks. Here are some of the most recent listings:
- Healthcare Enterprise Account Executive, Major Accounts (Nashville)
- Retail Account Lead (Madrid, Spain)
- Distributed Database Engineer (Washington DC)
- K-12 Education Account Executive (Columbus)
- K20 Education Leadership Executive (Montreal)
- US Channel Sales Enablement Manager (New York City
- Apple Support College Program At Home Advisor (multiple locations)
- ER Business Partner (Austin_)
- Healthcare Enterprise Account Executive, Major Accounts(Dallas)
- Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer (Munich)
- Browser Security Researcher (Seoul, South Korea)
- AIML – Partnerships Lead, Siri Response (Cupertino)
Each position is connected to a physical location, but don’t worry – the location on the job portal is still designated as “Home Office” for all of the above listings.
Remote Working: The Ups and Downs
As is the case with basically any working arrangement – flexible or not – there are upsides and downsides. These will vary depending on the stage of your career that you’re at, whether you’re a parent, and what industry you work in.
The big upside that hybrid and remote workers mention the most – at least in our experience – is the freedom that comes with the added flexibility and control over your work-life balance.
The rise of digital nomad visas – which have made it far easier for remote workers to live in other countries – has even made escaping the static city lifestyle feasible for those who want to travel the world while they’re young.
For those less inclined to globetrot, the ability to claw back an hour or so of the morning and evening commute that would otherwise be spent driving into the office or packing into a busy train at rush hour is another welcome advantage.
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Naturally, as well as getting some valuable time back each working day, remote workers save significant amounts of money on gas or public transport costs each month.
However, remote working isn’t all plain sailing. There is some evidence that remote working – or more specifically, not coming into the office – can have a detrimental impact on your career. Remote workers are more likely to be overlooked for promotions, several studies have shown, as they aren’t as present in the office.
There are other downsides, too – especially for the most junior members of the workforce. Generations of office workers have developed key social skills from being in a building, five days a week, with their much more senior peers. Their Gen-Z counterparts – many of whom are reaching their mid-20s with little to no office experience at all – have missed out on formative experiences.
If you confine people to a working environment where every interaction is via messages – and therefore intentional – opportunities for off-the-cuff conversations and inter-company networking start to dry up. And, in this sense, remote roles can be a tad isolating.
Workers are Demanding Hybrid Working Options
A recent study we covered in Tech.co showed that 42% of prospective employees in Europe would reject a job offer if there were no hybrid working options. This is a higher percentage than was recorded in other studies published over the past few years.
It seems that it’s becoming more and more difficult for businesses to contractually obligate employees to come into the office five days a week – or even for any time at all – when so many companies are now fully remote work, for good or for bad.
In terms of talent recruitment, in some industries, it’s become much the same as shooting yourself in the foot. But it’s not just new employees that many businesses are struggling to convince to come into the office.
Many big tech companies – most notably Google – struggled to get employees already on their payroll back into the office after the pandemic, with two-thirds of the company’s staff reporting they were unhappy with the decision in a survey conducted at the time.
The resistance to return-to-office mandates is so strong that some managers are even leveraging RTO policies to make underperforming employees jump before they’re pushed.
For better or worse, it’s rapidly become a key deal-breaker factor for millions of skilled knowledge workers – and with this in mind, it’s hard to see the trend ever reversing.
