Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Apple Shifting Security Team From Contractors to Full-Time Employees

MacRumors

MacRumors

macrumors bot
Original poster
Apr 12, 2001
68,200
38,989



Apple has decided to hire the majority of its day-to-day security staff in Silicon valley as full-time employees, a company spokeswoman confirmed to the San Jose Mercury News. Many of the security guards that Apple has hired in the past as contractors will become part of the company's expanded in-house security team and receive the same benefits as other employees, including full health insurance, retirement contributions and a leave of absence for new parents.

Apple-Security.jpg
Apple security guard in dispute with photographer at iPad event (via The Australian)​
Apple will continue using contractors as security guards for special events, such as the upcoming "Spring Forward" media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on March 9th. Apple is believed to have begun constructing an extension on the Yerba Buena Center over the weekend, possibly as an Apple Watch demo area, and security guards wearing "Apple Security" shirts were spotted monitoring the premises.
"We will be hiring a large number of full-time people to handle our day-to-day security needs," the spokeswoman told the San Jose Mercury News. "We hope that virtually all of these positions will be filled by employees from our current security vendor and we're working closely with them on this process."
Click to expand...
Apple has faced increasing pressure to provide individuals who cook, clean and monitor security for the company with the same benefits as other employees. Local union United Service Workers West staged a protest on Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California in December over complaints that its security contractor Security Industry Specialists treated workers poorly and that many positions were part-time.

Other service workers in Silicon Valley are also fighting for better wages and benefits. The Wall Street Journal reported that a group of 158 bus drivers working for Compass Transportation, which provides shuttle service for Apple, eBay, Genentech, Yahoo and Zynga, voted on Friday to be represented by local union Teamsters Local 853 in negotiations with Compass over fair working conditions.

Note: Due to the political nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Politics, Religion, Social Issues forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.

Article Link: Apple Shifting Security Team From Contractors to Full-Time Employees
 
Article Link
https://www.macrumors.com/2015/03/03/apple-hiring-full-time-security-team/
This is a great step move and will demonstrate to corporate America that full time benefitted employees are more productive, happier and are easier to retain than part time contractual employees.
 
macintologist said:
This is a great step move and will demonstrate to corporate America that full time benefitted employees are more productive, happier and are easier to retain than part time contractual employees.
Click to expand...

Great response! I agree! Good for Apple. It's nice to know they are full benefits.
 
I don't like it. Apple has a general practice of not trusting Retail employees. I can just imagine the LP accusations when something is stolen. There will be a lot of scapegoating.
 
If those bus drivers think that the teamsters will have an overall positive impact on anything, they'd better think again. The only thing the teamsters care about is getting dues directly from your paycheck and growing their organization.

The only thing worse than negotiating with the unions is negotiating with stockholders. Just look at what The Walt Disney Company has become.

Keep the products and the user experience as the goal, not the stock price or the unions, and Apple will be just fine.
 
Hopefully the janitorial crew will also become full time. Janitors get exposed to a ton of inside information via mismanaged trash containing confidential info.
 
MasterRyu2011 said:
Hopefully the janitorial crew will also become full time. Janitors get exposed to a ton of inside information via mismanaged trash containing confidential info.
Click to expand...

Its the equivalent of oil miners. You find oil or in their case some confidential info, you can become rich, possibly - although through illegal means most likely.

----------
lostngone said:
Maybe Apple really is doubling-down on security?

The new Apple campus security vehicles.... :eek:

Image
Click to expand...


I always thought we could use 1 or 2 per campus. Not that we would ever need to use it but it would be fun riding one of those between DCs.
 
Good Move

This is a move that all Silicon Valley companies with highly sensitive IP need to take. I have been onsite on a project at Google off and on the past 3 months and they have very quietly been doing the same thing... transitioning contract / part time security to full time employee status.

Having the ability to have different clearance levels and access levels based on building access and project sensitivity is huge. Controlling access via a third party that has generic "security badges" to enter buildings is more complex than it might seem at first blush.

Also, the point about fully benefited full time employees being happier and harder working is 100% true. The poster that talked about washed up cops, and folks with PTSD is so ignorant that it doesn't deserve to be quoted... SMH.
 
While this might work for Apple overall, I'm worried about them caving into pressure too much. They "caved" in on worker's rights, diversity, environmental and now unions. These are not bad things but they will eventually lead to bad things like special interest groups that should have never formed pushing their political agendas on corporate America.

Once special interest groups smell blood or weakness, they do not stop until they are rich and their opposers are unemployed.
 
technosix said:
This is a smart move. Apple definitely can do the right thing when they feel like it. This will pay off immediately.
Click to expand...

I suspect they have been trying to do this for a while, so they can get those folks fully on NDAs etc. But the unions can screw with such things. It would breach multi year contracts, the unions might lose dues etc so they wouldn't want it to go forward. Would take some time to work everything out

----------
sualpine said:
I don't like it. Apple has a general practice of not trusting Retail employees. I can just imagine the LP accusations when something is stolen. There will be a lot of scapegoating.
Click to expand...

This isn't about Retail.

And unfortunately there have been a lot of incidents of retail employees doing crap to make a little distrust appropriate.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back