Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, during an event at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, September 12, 2023.
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Apple is laying off 614 workers in California, according to a new state filing, the company’s first significant round of job cuts since the pandemic.
The affected Apple employees worked at eight different facilities in Santa Clara, according to the WARN notice released by California. Workers were officially notified of the cuts on March 28 and the changes will take effect on May 27, the document said.
Apple hasn’t been forced into the same kind of downsizing as its tech rivals, largely because the iPhone maker has grown more slowly than rivals during the pandemic.
The unveiling comes weeks after Apple canceled a long-running project to build an electric, self-driving car in a team called the Special Projects Group. While the California notice doesn’t mention the specific projects where jobs are being cut, none of the locations in the filing are at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, but in smaller satellite offices that are more likely to host secret initiatives .
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the positions cut include machine shop managers, hardware engineers and product design engineers.
An Apple representative declined to comment.
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