“Amazon has laid off 27,000, Meta has laid off 21,000, Microsoft has laid off 10,000, and Google has laid off 10,000 workers in recent months, for comparison.”
Apple’s last “big layoff” was 200 people.
This isn’t comparable to the other tech giants at all. Seems like lazy framing.
It might not change anything but at least I would feel that I was able to sanction the website for their misleading title.
Can those even be considered "Tech industry" jobs either?
I'm not sure a single word of the title is accurate besides Apple.
See that seems especially egregious to me. It’s proof you know the headline is terrible.
(Of course it could be that wasn’t the writer’s original title)
It’s not very common for Apple to lay anyone off, this could’ve been a decent story. Honestly the rest of the article is perfectly fine.
It’s just the framing.
The framing could’ve been something like “this is what it looks like when a company does layoffs right“. After all if you’re laying off a handful of people instead of 20,000 you clearly did a better job at not over-hiring.