Apple has large number of consultants who get chopped frequently and doesn’t make it to news.
That's a known risk as a contractor or consultant, so it's not as bad.
Contractors also have clauses that need them to have a cooldown period of 3 months before renewal of their contract. Unless they get full time offer.
Apple is a cult.
No thanks, it's all yours. Enjoy !
Everybody is watching Apple very closely, just waiting for layoffs. I think we would/will know if it was for real or now from credible sources
A layoff that doesn't trigger a WARN notice is not a layoff (for US). Just tired of seeing PIPs and small business closure considered as mass layoffs.
When the performance related termination quotas at large enterprises shift upwards during turbulent economic times, where companies are looking to decrease their risks and overhead due to the cost of capital and other factors, such a term should still loosely apply. There are many companies that are backtracking on their overspend and are now looking to make their organizations more lean. Artificially generated reasons to explain their own ineptitude and poor decision making. Unfortunately, this is how humans function, in sinusoidal trends, similar to the economy expanding and contracting. How else would you coin this behavior? Lean-offs? Reconsideration terminations? Let’s agree to generalize, because the majority of the time the individual employees aren’t that empowered, they sought job security and got the short end of the stick. Very many times the organization and management could reallocate resources to better use them in an efficient manner, but alas, that is not the case when you hire too many people. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the challenges of managing budgets and being responsible to shareholders, having accountability for the financial performance of a company. More levels of middle managers producing 0 value add is not a solution, I don’t care how great of an idea it may seem to go on hiring and spending frenzies when things appear to be booming. That being said, there are loopholes and ways around following layoff procedures that lead to warnings - read, companies don’t want to be put in the position of having to officially communicate layoffs, as there is too much scrutiny surrounding that and there may be both direct financial implications on the company (what the organization may have to pay to employees, regulatory fines, and revenue losses fueled by decreased performance) and potential destabilization of its stock price - leads to shareholder losses (typically senior managers hold stock as well), and senior management can find themselves pushed out of their jobs.
^^ well said Capital One. And let's not forget that these layoffs, PIPs, etc. are all being done while reporting record revenue and profits. Forced PIP is unethical. Laid off employees are not given the decency of being personally informed and a last day. I'm not against layoffs, but context and optics matter.
Woah Expedia 1500? 😳
Few teams were wiped out completely
We'd know if people got laidoff. When someone is fired, they don't give a shit about the company and will share the news.
Yes one of my friends who is a QA got laid off too. But she is not able to get any calls from the companies she is applying to. Are there any companies who are hiring QAs in this market?
What team is your friend on? Part of the Apple Car/EV team?
Not really. PMs, QA, junior developers are all kinda screwed right now.
What site is this ? Source. ?
Yeah what site is this
Layoffs.fyi - The standard for tracking all layoffs in tech.
Why isn’t there a laid off number? How do u know its NOT QA?
Contractors?
Maybe it’s so low that that don’t need to write it. The one above is 79. So the threshold is under 79.