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Apple lays off more than 600 Bay Area employees
- whiplash451 3y agoWhy does the article mention mass layoffs for 600 people at Apple scale?
- gnicholas 3y agoI think articles like this are published whenever a company files paperwork to do layoffs, which is only required above a certain threshold. It's true that Apple is a large company, but if all of these layoffs are in the Bay Area that makes it a bit more material than if it were worldwide layoffs.
- Nasrudith 3y agoWARN act definition of mass layoff is for 50 or more jobs in a thirty day period. Six hundred lay-offs qualifies dozen-fold.
- whiplash451 3y agoSure but then a promise from Apple to never do mass layoffs (like the article mentions) is untenable.
- phendrenad2 3y agoMeanwhile they're still hiring contractors like mad.
- Tagbert 3y agoThese were people on a team of 2000 devoted to the Car project which was recently cancelled. The ones laid off were likely those with very car-specific skills like automotive engineers and mechanics that could not easily transfer to Apple's other products. 600 out of 2000 is not too bad when ending a big project like that. the headline could easily read: Apple retains 70% of workforce from cancelled project. Those contract positions are certainly not car related.
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- ortusdux 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941645
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago[dupe] Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39937620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39937620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39937426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39937426
- gnicholas 3y agoI appreciate your dupe posts sometimes, but when the other posts have just a handful of comments (less than this thread at the time you commented), it seems like a bit of a red herring. What's the point?
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoUnderstood, not the best scenario on this one, but would have hoped the mods merged the threads by now as the story and the comments are on day-old news (of which there are a number of submissions of the same story). What was the point of posting the story again instead of just joining the discussion over there?
- gnicholas 3y agoI wasn't aware of the other submissions. It would be fine if the threads were merged, but I feel like there's a materiality threshold under which it isn't worth their time to merge.