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APPLE’S new campus in Cupertino, California, is a symbol of how the company views itself as an employer: simultaneously inspiring its workers with its magnificent scale, while coddling them with its four-story café and fitness centre. But one group of Apple contractors finds another building, 9.6km away in Sunnyvale, to be a more apt symbol. This building is as bland as the main Apple campus is striking. From the outside, there appears to be a reception area, but it’s unstaffed, which makes sense, given that people working in this satellite office – mostly Apple contractors working on Apple Maps – use the back door. Workers say managers instructed them to walk several blocks away before calling for a ride home. Several people who worked here say it’s widely referred to within Apple as a “black site”. I Reuters