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Tim Cook Says Apple Will Continue to Hire Employees in a 'Deliberate Way' After Reports of a Slowdown in Hiring
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I’ve seen a few posts from a few people here on the threads who really think we get facts from the “news.”
This example of the “news“ slanting their earlier reporting about Apple Hiring into scare tactics and what basically amounted to lies right?
Poor reporting and journalism at best - manipulative lying seems to be a closer description.
It could be fine tuning for efficiency.
I remember going back to Las Vegas when they reopened maybe in 2020 or whatever year it was. So many of the workers were getting paid to stay home and Las Vegas restaurants couldn’t find workers to come back to work. Maybe the workers were making less money but at least they didn’t have to show up to a job!
Tesla was Recently saying something about hiring as well - I believe it related to too many workers who were “working at home” but not being quite as productive.
I mean I could care less if margins are 43.7% versus 43.2%. It’s basically 43% to me. But they are always seeking efficiency.
I’m glad they do it so I don’t have to! Just buy Apple stock and let them do all the work and grinding. Better than trying to run my own small business.
If you're talking about living entirely off of Apple stock without a full-time job, you would need millions of dollars of capital invested into $AAPL in the first place to be able to live off of the dividends.
But yes, given how low the success rate of starting a new business is and how much work it requires, most people are better off investing into the stock market than gambling their money into their own venture.
From what companies see as the becoming of good economic times they can become less selective in hiring to make sure they will have the people they need if things further accelerate. Once things start to slow down they find out there are people doing very little productive work. They get squeezed out and the excessive hiring ends. Top performers will always be able to job hop. Everyone else will have put in a lot time to get another job and will have very little leverage on demands. The job hopping game is over. Next to fall is the number of people working from home.
I mean, who is he trying to fool? We all know that all laptops in 2030 will have 5 exabytes of internal storage and 2 terabytes on memory. For $500.
'Hiring in a deliberate manner'
I'm glad that's the exception to the rule.
Were they hiring by identity not qualifications was the status quo up until recently or something?
I'm glad that's the exception to the rule.
Were they hiring by identity not qualifications was the status quo up until recently or something?
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I have no idea what their strategy for hiring is. I’m sure assuming from what was stated. I’m sure there is some deeper meaning.
It doesn’t happen overnight. It grew.
And yeah running my own biz was fine but I didn’t run anywhere nearly as efficient as Apple. It’s an order of magnitude more efficient. I didn’t even like the idea of JIT lol. They run a tight ship. I’m very thankful to have been able to participate in the stock market over 30+ years. Life changer for sure!
I feel a bit sad that so many countries cannot access USA Markets for investment. Sadder still that Joe Sixpack could invest, but doesn’t. These earnings days highlight it. Capitalism is awesome.
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Maybe not hiring any more guys who play gran Turismo 7 all day at home and punch in for a FaceTime call now and then. I think that’s what Tim Cook means by deliberate hiring. “My nose is runny today” ain’t gonna cut it is what he is saying.
This is exactly what i thought first, also. Or "Will you work for peanuts?"
I think “hiring in a deliberate way” may be code for “only people willing to work in Apple campuses full time”… 😉
This is plain professional English. It means selectively and strategically.
Poaching a few senior Engineers from Qualcomm? - Yes.
Hiring more fresh grads from no name state universities? - No.