Apple lays off more than 600 workers in California in its 1st major round of post-pandemic cuts

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Apple is laying disconnected much than 600 workers successful California, marking the company's archetypal large question of post-pandemic occupation cuts amid a broader question of tech manufacture consolidation.

The iPhone shaper notified 614 workers successful aggregate offices connected March 28 that they were losing their jobs, with the layoffs becoming effectual connected May 27, according to reports to determination authorities.

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The workers were chopped from 8 offices successful Santa Clara, according to the filings nether the state's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, besides known arsenic WARN. But it's not wide which departments oregon projects the employees were progressive in.

Apple did not instantly respond to a petition for remark aboriginal Friday.

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The Cupertino, California, institution had been a notable objection arsenic different tech companies slashed their workforces implicit the past 2 years. There was a monolithic surge successful hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic, erstwhile radical spent much clip and wealth online, and large tech companies are inactive larger than they were earlier the pandemic. Still, arsenic maturation slows, companies are focusing connected cutting costs.

In a caller regulatory filing, Apple said it had astir 161,000 full-time equivalent employees.

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Amazon announced earlier this week a caller circular of layoffs, this clip astatine its unreality computing concern AWS. In caller months, video crippled shaper Electronic Arts said it's cutting astir 5% of its workforce, Sony said its axing astir 900 jobs successful its PlayStation division, Cisco Systems revealed plans to laic disconnected much than 4,000 workers and societal media institution Snap, proprietor of Snapchat, announced its slashing 10% of its planetary workforce.