Apple laid off 600 employees after car, smart screen projects shut shop: report
Tech giant Apple has laid off 600 employees across its self-driving car and smartwatch screen projects, news agency Bloomberg reported on Friday. Both projects were scrapped earlier this year.
According to the report, Apple filed eight separate reports to the state of California to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program.
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The report noted that 371 employees were released at Apple’s main car-related office in Santa Clara, California, while dozens more at multiple satellite offices were also impacted. “In some cases, members of the Apple car group were relocated to other teams, such as for artificial intelligence or work on personal robotics.”
Layoffs at Apple have not been a usual phenomenon — a contrast to other Big Tech companies like Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, etc that have handed pink slips to thousands of employees, owing to global
