More Apple Layoffs (the HR Trick of Making Demands Many Workers Can't Meet, Especially Ones With Family)
Can you also 'relocate' the wife's (or husband's) job/role/company? Can you load up the house (on a mortgage) onto some semi-trailer? Do workers even want to move to Texas? What about their kids, who have real-life friends at school?
THIS is poor Apple's turn (Microsoft's probably later this month, likely the same week as the fake 'results', i.e. the usual).
In the news right now: (seems like the bubble has burst at Apple, just like "metaverse")
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Apple to Shutter 121-Person San Diego AI Team in Reorganization
Apple Inc. is shutting a 121-person team related to artificial intelligence operations in San Diego, leaving many employees at risk of termination, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Apple tells dozens of employees in San Diego to move to Austin or face layoffs, report says
Apple has reportedly told 121 employees in San Diego to relocate to Austin or face being laid off.
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Apple's San Diego AI team faces relocation or termination
Bloomberg shares that Apple is disbanding a 121-person team linked to artificial intelligence operations in San Diego, putting numerous employees at risk of job loss, as reported by sources familiar with the situation.
Like the "back to office" mandates, resulting in loads of resignations (no severance, no layoffs announced; we saw that at Microsoft and Facebook), these moves are premeditated with the expectation of staff reductions, not relocations/reassignment. This means Apple does not see much of a future in this "Hey Hi" (AI) bubble anymore. Scuttling things by moving workers to a "Red State" would seem 'accidental' only a shallow observer or Apple-sponsored 'journalist'. █
Days ago: What is 'silent sacking' and why is Amazon allegedly using it to cut its workforce
An Amazon employee is accusing the company of allegedly dodging negative press associated with layoffs and skipping out on providing severance packages by “silently sacking” its employees to encourage them to leave the company rather than firing them.In a recent blog post, Justin Garrison, who is a senior developer at Amazon Web services, claims that the company has been reducing costs by making employees “miserable” at the company.
“The negative press associated with layoffs wasn’t good. But the most effective way to reduce operational expenses was to get rid of all the expensive people,” wrote the employee in a blog post. “How could they force people to leave without severance packages or en masse? Making them miserable and silently sacking them."
“Silently sacking” is another phrase for “quiet firing” which is when management creates a work environment that has deteriorating conditions such as overwork, stalled promotions, little support from management etc. in order to push employees to resign from positions rather than firing them. This tactic could cut costs for a company as they would no longer be obligated to provide employees with severance packages when they resign.
In the blog post, Garrison claims that Amazon started silently sacking its employees when it enforced its return-to-office mandate last year which caused employees to “leave in droves.” He also alleges that the company has been “burning out” employees.