Hence the incarnation of the word iSheep.Deidre is the worse thing that happened to Apple Retail. I’m sure Surface leaving has to do with profits over people. Apple Retail employees that are not managers get treated like livestock.
The big question is when is Tim Cook leaving.
Winner!It's ok, Kelly ThinkPad will be filling her shoes shortly
Probably sooner than people think, He's in his early 60s now, not getting any younger.The big question is when is Tim Cook leaving.
Little known, her close friends call her ‘Clippy’.What is interesting is that, believe it not, her middle name is Zune.
The even bigger question is who would follow him - and would that mean a change to the better or the worse?The big question is when is Tim Cook leaving.
Yes, a lot of people seem to be unaware that a CPO is a very standard position in most mid/large organisations.Carol Surface was the #1 chief human resources officer in 2022! You can’t fix culture with Apple employees who think they can walk on water like Gandi.
Nothing wrong with it, just a slightly nicer way of saying “head of HR”“Chief People Officer” !?!
Just another garbage job title.
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Or is this considered human resources? Or is this a lower rank Which seems to be more insignificant?“Chief People Officer” !?!
Just another garbage job title.
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I never understood why it's called "Human Resources" in English. To me it seems disrespectful to a human to call him/her a "resource".Or is this considered human resources?
I never understood why it's called "Human Resources" in English. To me it seems disrespectful to a human to call him/her a "resource".
It's ok, Kelly ThinkPad will be filling her shoes shortly
I never understood why it's called "Human Resources" in English. To me it seems disrespectful to a human to call him/her a "resource".
Apple's chief people officer Carol Surface is leaving the company, reports Bloomberg. Surface joined Apple in February 2023, so she has been at the company less than two years.
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Most senior executives are at Apple for much longer periods of time, and it is not clear why Surface is leaving. She was hired when Apple decided to split its primary human resources role from retail last year, and she reported directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Deirdre O'Brien had been handling both the retail and people (or HR) role, but when Surface took over, O'Brien transitioned to just overseeing retail. With Surface leaving, O'Brien will once again oversee both people and retail.
Surface was previously the chief human resources officer at Medtronic, and the chief people officer title was created when she joined Apple.
Article Link: Apple's Chief People Officer Leaves Company After 20 Months
It used to be called Personnel. The George Carlin effect took over (gradually use longer and fancier words).I never understood why it's called "Human Resources" in English. To me it seems disrespectful to a human to call him/her a "resource".
In a big picture humans are viewed as a resource in the same way as the energy and other natural resources.The department is the "resource" for "humans" (workers). The "humans" in the department are the coordinator, manager, director, etc.
I quit Apple this summer after 5+ years. Post-COVID retail at Apple has been hell. We all worked in fear we’d get fired at any time because Apple didn’t want to be caught publicly laying off like everyone else was. So my store lost ~10% of workers from being fired for suddenly the smallest & most random things. The HR/People side of Apple was the way they did it. People loosing their healthcare and income because they were late a few times. Something that was usually dismissed previously. Even one of our managers was suddenly fired for inviting a former employee (who was just fired the week prior) to say hello to their team backstage in a “non-customer area”, and this was one of our top managers of 10 years. It became very scary to work at Apple Stores and caused significant mental health issues store-wide.Good riddance. If you know anyone who works in retail or on the phones you’ll know that especially since Covid management at Apple have basically been chanting, “let them eat cake, let them eat cake!”
Dealing with the public has gotten way worse since Covid and Apple has still been living in a world where they think it’s okay to not protect their employees from harassment from upset or deranged customers.
For many customers the customer experience is innately tied to the employee experience. And the employee experience is often soaking up vitriol caused by executives taking forever to figure out they had a really bad idea.