Rare Layoffs at Apple Impact Dozens in Sales Roles

[PlayUltimate]

dozens? Not sure that number is even worthy of a report. With Apple having 166,000 employees, assuming 4 dozen were laid off, that amounts to 0.029% of the workforce.
Some companies are announcing 10% layoffs. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/full-list-major-us-companies-220813398.html

 

[ghanwani]

They are using AI to do their selling.

 

[iObama]

It's to pay for the patent trolls. All those wishing Apple to "pay up" are literally asking Apple to lay off people's jobs. Great going, guys.

LOL. They have $200 billion ON HAND in cash. Stop defending a $3T company against lil comments on the internet.

 

[Edd70]

As long as they keep the people in charge of marketing the Apple TV 4K. Oh, wait…

 

[bmark]

Apple has unexpected bills. So they fire people to make up for the unexpected bills. Hope that makes sense for you now.

Apple knew what it was doing when it violated Massimo's patents. They didn't care about the consequences because the benefit outweighs the lawsuit fine. No one should feel sorry for a trillion dollar company making billions year over year.

 

[macos9rules]

To connect with even more customers, we are making some changes in our sales team that affect a small number of roles. We are continuing to hire and those employees can apply for new roles.

Peak corporate euphemism. That sentence is basically HR’s way of saying “we’re firing people” while pretending it’s just a gentle game of musical chairs.

 

[Steve01234]

Back in the 80's and through the late 90's apple had 3rd party B2B sales in the form of VARs and heathy 3rd party local retailers. Apple was super difficult and demanding to keep VAR status with especially in terms of sales amounts, margins dealers made, lack of significant discounts. Then apple decided to slowly kill them off with the vision of their own Retail stores and and in house B2B. Now the circle completes, lets go back to large volume VARS. 🤦🏻

 

[LV426]

They’ll find another job.

If you want to know what a severance is in the Apple world, watch their tv series of the same name!

 

[lapstags]

Fire Tim Cook he runs Apple like a financial company and uses legal warfare instead of running it like a tech company. In 2026 I might jump ship unless they wow me.

 

[mrpither]

They are running out of things to cut out of product deliveries (head phones, chargers, SIM card slots, next up cables?) so now its people. When they figure out how to delete the box... Every single penny. #thinkgreedy

 

[germanbeer007]

LOL. They have $200 billion ON HAND in cash. Stop defending a $3T company against lil comments on the internet.

"Apple! How about you make less money! Yeah that's a realistic expectation!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

[germanbeer007]

Apple knew what it was doing when it violated Massimo's patents.

that's a random guess

 

[germanbeer007]

Nope, has nothing to do with that. It’s Apple’s management running more like a private equity company. Maximizing pure profits, at cost of customers and US employees.

Maximize profits by cutting people to pay for the patent bill. Exactly what I said.

 

[Jumpthesnark]

Apple has unexpected bills. So they fire people to make up for the unexpected bills. Hope that makes sense for you now.

Any proof that this is what's happening?

 

[true god]

Add a demographic breakdown of those laid off.