Apple CEO Tim Cook during an event at Apple Park in Cupertino, California on September 12, 2023.
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apple The company is laying off 614 employees in California, its first major round of layoffs since the pandemic began, according to a new state filing.
The affected Apple employees work at eight different factories in Santa Clara, according to Apple. warning notice posted By the State of California. Workers were formally notified of the layoffs on March 28, and the changes will take effect on May 27, the document said.
Apple hasn’t been forced to cut jobs like its tech peers, largely because the iPhone maker has grown more slowly than its rivals during the pandemic.
A few weeks ago, Apple canceled a long-term plan by a group called the Special Projects Group to build electric self-driving cars. Although the California notice did not mention specific projects for layoffs, the layoffs in the document were not located at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, but smaller satellite offices, which are more likely to implement secretive measures.
It is understood that the positions being eliminated include machine shop managers, hardware engineers and product design engineers. san francisco chroniclefirst reported the news.
An Apple representative declined to comment.
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