Apple Announces Rare Wave of Job Cuts (theverge.com) 17
Apple has laid off about 100 employees in its services group (source may be paywalled; alternative source), primarily affecting roles associated with the Apple Books app and Apple Bookstore. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: The impacted employees at the Cupertino-based tech giant were informed of the cuts on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported (paywalled). The layoffs spanned various teams under Senior Vice President Eddy Cue. The job cuts include roles primarily associated with the Apple Books app and Apple Bookstore, with the company shifting its focus to other divisions. Additionally, other services teams, such as the one managing Apple News, also experienced layoffs.
While Apple has largely avoided mass layoffs even as other major tech companies have downsized, it did lay off 614 employees in Santa Clara earlier this year. Those cuts marked Apple's first significant job reductions since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and coincided with the cancellation of its decade-long electric car project.
While Apple has largely avoided mass layoffs even as other major tech companies have downsized, it did lay off 614 employees in Santa Clara earlier this year. Those cuts marked Apple's first significant job reductions since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and coincided with the cancellation of its decade-long electric car project.
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Either you just got laid off by Apple, or you severely overestimate the popularity, quality, and competitiveness of the Apple Bookstore.
Not much (Score:2)
A hundred layoffs at a company employing 161,000 people doesn't seem like very much.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/273439/number-of-employees-of-apple-since-2005/
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A hundred layoffs at a company employing 161,000 people doesn't seem like very much.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/273439/number-of-employees-of-apple-since-2005/
Exactly, and depending on their skill set they could easily be absorbed I open slots within Apple.
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A hundred layoffs at a company employing 161,000 people doesn't seem like very much.
Yeah.. the real-world impact of it ain't why this site's covering it. ;)
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And can't they just reassign them in such a big org? That way you don't make headlines, and it improves morale. Seems a pedantic move. Natural attrition would reduce total headcount by same amount in a few weeks anyhow.
Wait, what? (Score:1)
Wait, Apple Bookstore is still a thing?
After United States v. Apple [wikipedia.org] all the way back in 2012, I thought it had died. Did Apple just never mention it again, or something?
Or did we wind up in a different timeline somehow?
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Let me guess (Score:2)
Appl Still coping everyone else....
You're using an Apple laptop with butterfly keyboard, right?
The announcment started off ... (Score:2)
"Dear future former Apple employees, We're holding onto your jobs wrong ..."
Must be AI (Score:2)
I mean, aren't all job cuts caused by AI adoption?
One has to wonder (Score:2)
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Or perhaps it is easier to lay folks that aren't performing well off. Every year, assemble problematic employees into a new unit, close it down, a lot easier than dealing with the lawsuits that your manager was mean to you.
Wow (Score:2)