Apple has pushed back on calling its staff back into their offices until October.
The company is now allowing its workers to continue remote working for an extra month as the COVID-19 Delta virus wreaks havoc across the US.
ICEO Tim Cook requests staff return to the office for three days a week starting from September but following news infection rates have spiked this plan has been put back an additional month.
Apple is now the first major tech company to hold off hybrid working plans according to Bloomberg.
It comes as Twitter workers have been allowed to work remotely on a permanent basis, despite two-thirds of staff in the New York office stating they would rather return to the office a few days per week.
Salesforce, meanwhile, will increase office capacity from 20% to 75 over time.
Microsoft kickstarted a ‘soft open’ that allowed staff to work on-prem from March and Facebook will reopen in the Autumn.
Finally, Google have a choice this month as to whether they’d like to return to the office. But staff have been told they must wear a facemask.
It follows news a new report commissioned by IBM has found the average total cost of a data breach for a company that encourages agents to work from home is a staggering $5.
This figure is higher than cyberattacks where remote working was not a factor, the study added.
In the latest annual Cost of a Data Breach Report conducted by Ponemon Institute along with IBM Security surveyed more than 500 organisations across the globe – found that the average cost of a cyber incident is now a record-topping $4.24m.
But when the study analysed businesses where remote working was involved, they found that the average total cost of a data breach was above average – just shy of $5m.
