The Apple Park campus is seen in this aerial photograph taken over Cupertino, California, United States, Wednesday, October 23, 2019.
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Apple The company is laying off 614 workers in California, according to a new state filing, marking the company’s first round of significant job cuts since the pandemic.
The affected Apple employees worked at eight different facilities in Santa Clara, according to the WARN notice issued by California. Workers were officially informed of the reductions on March 28 and the changes will take effect on May 27, the filing said.
Apple hasn’t been forced into the same type of workforce reductions as its tech industry peers, largely because the iPhone maker has seen slower growth than its competitors during the pandemic.
The filing comes weeks after Apple canceled a long-standing project to build a self-driving electric car under a team called the Special Projects Group. Although the California notice does not mention the specific projects in which jobs are being eliminated, none of the sites mentioned in the filing are at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, but in smaller satellite offices more likely to house secret initiatives.
The eliminated positions include machine shop managers, hardware engineers and product design engineers, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which was first to report the news.
An Apple representative declined to comment.
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