Apple has begun firing contractors amid mass tech layoffs

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34 points·brakmic··10 comments

I’ve seen numerous threads on HK about the FAANG and other tech layoffs. My question is why the assumption that such companies are or should be immune to layoffs? Most of us in corporate America have experienced it for decades.

Maybe they're just going to limit it to contractors so that they don't even have to report the numbers?

Looks like California's WARN act doesn't apply for contractors.

https://www.xperthr.com/news/warn-act-notice-not-required-fo...

"Apple hasn’t disclosed the size of its contractor workforce, but past reports suggest it numbers in the thousands"

Heh... the number of contractors Apple employs is likely in the tens of thousands. Probably multiple tens of thousands.

How do you figure? Like store employees might be contractors?

Bear in mind there were not tens of thousands of engineers, and the employee headcount is very very heavily comprised of store employees with their varied part-time schedules.

Disclaimer: worked for years in Apple engineering as a fulltime person, quit to work on cancer research at a startup.

The ads on the NYP are depressingly cynical.

It's getting worse...

...the build quality of the iPhone passes at a rate of 50 percent at the new relocated factory in India.

Is that because it's worse or because the Chinese factories lied better

Yeah, or they just sold the rejected 50% to counterfeit and second market suppliers

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