Apple lays off over 600 California employees after shuttering car project

Apple
is
laying
off
614
workers
in
California,
according
to
a
new
state
filing,
the
company’s
first
significant
round
of
job
cuts
since
the
pandemic.

The
affected
Apple
employees
worked
at
eight
different
facilities
in
Santa
Clara,
according
to
the

WARN
notice
posted
by
California.
The
workers
were
officially
informed
of
the
cuts
on
March
28
and
the
changes
are
effective
May
27,
the
filing
said.

Apple
hasn’t
been
forced
into
the
same
kind
of

downsizing
as
its
tech
peers,
largely
because
the
iPhone
maker
grew

more
slowly
than
rivals
during
the
pandemic.

The
filing
comes
weeks
after
Apple

canceled
a
long-running
project
to
build
an
electric,
self-driving
car
in
a
team
called
the
Special
Projects
Group.
While
the
California
notice
didn’t
mention
the
specific
projects
where
jobs
are
being
cut,
none
of
the
locations
in
the
filing
are
at
Apple’s
Cupertino
headquarters,
but
at
smaller,
satellite
offices
more
likely
to
house
secretive
initiatives.

Positions
that
were
cut
include
machine
shop
managers,
hardware
engineers
and
product
design
engineers,
according

to
the
San
Francisco
Chronicle.

An
Apple
representative
declined
to
comment.

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