According to data from a California state agency, Apple has laid off more than 600 employees, marking the company’s first known job cuts since the pandemic.
The California-based company was mostly spared last year’s massive rounds of job cuts at Amazon, Meta, Google, and other tech behemoths following a major hiring spree during the coronavirus pandemic.
California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN, Apple laid off 614 employees in several offices on March 27.
A source, the job cuts were caused by the company’s cancelled plans to produce an electric vehicle, bringing an end to a decade-long project that had been struggling.
The reports, the iPhone maker had dedicated nearly 2,000 employees to its secretive car development programme, but was facing an increasingly competitive electric vehicle (EV) sector. The full scope of the layoffs could be broader, as Apple is only legally required to notify of job cuts in California.
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