According to a report in
"Officials later deemed the situation under control and said employees could go back inside. Officials did not immediately say what the substance was," the report noted.
Apple told employees at Apple Park that "authorities concluded that there was no presence of hazardous materials," according to an email obtained by The Verge.
The email says that operations were back to normal, and that "all sections are open."
Apple did not immediately commented.
Tech giant Apple's employees will start to return to offices on April 11.
According to reports, the news came more than two years after the majority of Apple's corporate workforce started working from home because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The move signals that big employers in
The global return-to-office plan for Apple comes after Google said this week that its employees would return on April 4.
Apple was one of the first companies to tell its employees to work from home in March 2020, even though the company's culture emphasises in-person collaboration and that the development of new hardware products is best performed by on-site employees.
Apple's retail stores are now open around the world.
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