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Apple 'Reevaluating' Recruiting Efforts, Reportedly Lays Off All Contract Recruiters
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Apple has always been vigilant, clever and responsible financially. With iPhone sales beginning to destabilize, Apple's move to manage expenses is appropriate.
It's probably because they have staff going through various phases of transition internally (going by the recent stories involving that FBI fiasco, with the iOS security team going through a transition.) Most likely just getting rid of recruiters that they don't need right now, at least until the dust settles from all of the internal shuffling that could be going on.
In other words, it's probably being taken somewhat out of context by the media, and/or being blown out of proportion. Anything related to giant tech companies seems to be "sexy" and "provocative" these days, and I suspect this is just another example of media companies trying to monopolize on the opportunity for some "scoops".
In other words, it's probably being taken somewhat out of context by the media, and/or being blown out of proportion. Anything related to giant tech companies seems to be "sexy" and "provocative" these days, and I suspect this is just another example of media companies trying to monopolize on the opportunity for some "scoops".
A comment relevant to the thread topic would be nice.
Apple has a below average turnover in staff so this makes sense to be an area where efficiencies are looked at.
The real clue to the scale of this is it said 100 people could be affected. That is nothing for a global company, Apple will probably just relocate them within the company.
The real clue to the scale of this is it said 100 people could be affected. That is nothing for a global company, Apple will probably just relocate them within the company.
Apple selling slightly less iPhones really really doesn't mean that they're loosing money. In fact, I would venture so far as to say that apple could experience a YoY decline in iPhone shipments whilst making more money from iPhones alone. There's a lot more than just sales volume that dictates a company's profitability.
Also, last I checked, apples profit has not actually declined - their forecasts for shipments have been revised downwards I think.
tl;dr less shipments =/= less profit
It could be a little of both. iPhone sales for 2016 is already predicted to be shrinking numbers compared to 2015 and 2014 unit sales. And as a result, they NEED to cut back on excess (they have way too many employees already) if they want to remain lean and profitable (which is "good news" as far as investors are concerned).
The thing is, are these cuts affecting workers in one particular area of Apple's business, or is it widespread across all of their product lines? I feel the speculation is naturally fueled by rumors of declining YoY iPhone sales, but am not certain that this would be the only team affected by cuts.
They are contracted for a reason, so that can be off loaded when their job is done. Apple recruits large numbers for projects and needs large numbers of non permanent staff to recruit those numbers.
This I think everyday at noon. Luckily later at night and early in the morning I change my mind
They should reevaluate the MacPro updates, and pricing, and add more features (and do a buyback of older machines?)
They should reevaluate the performance of their programming units in total. Programming stable stuff isn't a focus anymore it would seem...
Yeah, 16GB devices aren't even close to being defensible anymore, especially at their price point.
Oh, on edit: They should reevaluate the increasing march to un-upgradability for their iMac systems. I don't normally upgrade my systems until they are 'old in the tooth' in an effort to get more umph out of them. I'm not more likely to buy new if I have a 'book that is older. I'll keep humping the old junk, and feel even more pissed off at not being able to upgrade, and less likely to stay 'of the body', and buy another Apple product. I DO have three Windows 'books, and 'Windoes 10 has gotten better'
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It's almost like Apple has 'lost focus'. Yeah, I know I know...
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"Essentially the recruiting engine inside Apple has slowed down and the company is reevaluating its activities in that area, the source said.
"You always need to have something new coming out to justify hiring," the source said."
This says it all.
"You always need to have something new coming out to justify hiring," the source said."
This says it all.
Ahh.... So, you're saying, "If Apple attended to these things I'd like to see done, they'd need to hire more people and the jobs of these recruiters would be safe?"
Well, maybe not, since some of the items on this list, like reevaluating Apple Music or ditching the car project, could conceivably result in job cuts.
And maybe not again, since refining designs, changing names, and the like are probably within the capabilities of existing staff - the blame here is always focused on a handful of executives, not the rank-and-file.
It doesn't take an army of recruiters to replace the handful of executives on peoples' "must go" lists. Then again, it could be hard to find experienced, competent business managers who agree that the items on lists like these would be priorities or even meaningful to the company's future. And Apple might need tens of thousands of recruiters to sift through "I know how to do Tim Cook's job" posts to find even one person who is marginally qualified to do the job.
The thing about items on this list is that most of them would have minimal positive impact on profitability. Are there hordes refusing to buy iPhone 6s because of the "ugly" antenna bands, or because they'd rather have 32GB for the price of 16GB? Doesn't seem likely. Mac is growing market share and maintaining/growing sales in a shrinking market for desktops and laptops. How much better can they do? Yet if I'm wrong, and these changes pushed sales through the roof... nearly all hiring would take place on the manufacturing end, at companies like *Foxconn and Pegatron. Apple would have all sorts of additional money in "Cash and Marketable Securities," with no obligation to spend a penny on hiring.
*Hmmm. "Foxconn" is in Apple's American English spell-correct dictionary, but "Pegatron" is not. If I was an executive at Pegatron, I'd be highly insulted. They'll need to hire a team to fix that!
I know, and I realize what I've said was extremely simplistic. But I'm just pretty fed up with people constantly saying that Apple's going to die and then they use stuff like this article as proof (even though none of their "proof" doesn't actually prove a thing and they just take things out of context).
Yes, I know that this is the Internet and this is how the Internet reacts, but it doesn't mean it has to be this way.