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Apple Laying Off Some Corporate Retail Employees
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Google was given an ultimatum by a hedge fund to lay off employees and divest.
So umn……
I’m glad that the employees are given opportunities to apply for other areas within Apple vs given a non-negotiable termination package.
I feel (and fear) that our economic system is going to suffer much in the near future.
Wow talk about a bad take and not knowing how business works. Why pay people to just sit when they don't have anything for them to do!?!? This take is what's wrong with people's attitudes towards business these days!
If they stay with the company then they weren't laid off. Most employees affected by this (I assume) will not be staying with the company though. This sounds like the exact definition of being laid off.
They definitely have the right to do the same. “Life after lay off” keeps saying every employee should treat themselves as a free agent and always try to find a greener posture rather than sticking to the old place that offers no growth. Since corporations care nothing more, so does employees.
…they can re-apply for their old position again, then why fire them in the first place?
Possible answer: they get their old job back BUT are a contract employee, not full time and/or they return via the infamous temp agencies that all the big corps use.
when I worked for Intel, they did to many people, and also made liberal use of long-term temps: full time employees, minus stock options and other benefits. Just horrible IMO.
It was an eye-opener for me, corporate world, glad I went into the military instead. I have friends that thrive in that culture though, so to each their own.
Possible answer: they get their old job back BUT are a contract employee, not full time and/or they return via the infamous temp agencies that all the big corps use.
when I worked for Intel, they did to many people, and also made liberal use of long-term temps: full time employees, minus stock options and other benefits. Just horrible IMO.
It was an eye-opener for me, corporate world, glad I went into the military instead. I have friends that thrive in that culture though, so to each their own.
Each year corporations come up with different ways to label "layoffs." I've heard talent upgrades, workforce reduction, position elimination, etc.... it's all the same thing. And it's very unfortunate.
Blame the cutting edge nature of capitalism. When AI starts to take over humanity, humanity will falter far quicker than we would like to admit because the connection between people no longer exist.
It would be bad for someone if they switch the jobs too often tho, so there‘s always a balance to make, and brushing up interview preparation is another ball game. I would find myself in a sticky situation if my life encounters so many lay offs that is beyond my control (Aka not me making mistakes etc).
Makes sense in some degree. I bet if amazon can be operated and managed purely by robots and AI the CEO would do it. It’s just that we are not there yet and ramification would be massive.
How touching. They’re allowed to apply for a job that Apple isn’t hiring for.
Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where to make a new tax sound more appealing, they called it a "temporary refund adjustment" 😅
The way corporations treat employees is sad. They treat them like a utility—on when you need it and off when you don’t. The execs use all the money the company makes to buy back stock, make earnings look pretty, and enrich themselves with fat pay packages linked to stock performance. Then the moment the economy turns they let employees go because they need to “manage expenses” (in other words keep earnings elevated, often at record levels, despite falling revenues). What ever happened to rainy day funds? A company like Apple should be able to withstand a decade or longer of no growth or even falling revenues without laying off a single employee.
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These aren't hourly employees. They are corporate employees and almost surely salaried.
I've been through this sort of thing myself. The position is eliminated, but the employee is allowed a certain period of time to apply for an open job elsewhere in the corporation.
“Apple told employees that these are not layoffs, but streamlining.”
So if I take an iPhone without paying for it, it’s not stealing, it’s inventory correction.
Streamlining’ project leader goes for next job interview; so tell us, how did you ‘streamline’ the staff base, exactly? Oh we laid them off. Interviewer is a Macrumors forum reader, looks perplexed at co-hiring colleague. “Thanks for your time, but we’re looking for someone who speaks English, not corporate crap.”
So if I take an iPhone without paying for it, it’s not stealing, it’s inventory correction.
Streamlining’ project leader goes for next job interview; so tell us, how did you ‘streamline’ the staff base, exactly? Oh we laid them off. Interviewer is a Macrumors forum reader, looks perplexed at co-hiring colleague. “Thanks for your time, but we’re looking for someone who speaks English, not corporate crap.”
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And if they don't get that position? Would that not be a layoff? You can put extra steps in the middle but if the end result is unemployment after a business goes through structural change, that's what it is.
Exactly!
Call a spade a spade. Apple is so afraid of bad press that they'll spin everything. yet people gobble it up.
YOU get a pink slip and YOU get a pink slip!
EVERYBODY GETS A PINK SLIP!!
EVERYBODY GETS A PINK SLIP!!
I Really wish people would read and understand the story before commenting.
And if they choose not to, they can get up to 4 months pay. Did you even read the story?
And others will just make up things that aren’t in the story because…. Well…