apple The company is laying off 614 workers in California, according to a new government filing, the company's first big round of job cuts since the Covid pandemic.
The affected Apple employees work at eight different facilities in Santa Clara, according to a WARN notice published by California. Workers were officially informed of the cuts on March 28, and the changes will take effect on 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 has grown more slowly than its competitors during the pandemic.
This submission comes weeks after Apple canceled a long-term project to build a self-driving electric car within a team called the Special Projects Group. While the California notice did not mention the specific projects where jobs are being cut, none of the locations in the filing are at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, but smaller branch offices are likely to house classified initiatives.
Jobs cut include machine shop managers, instrumentation engineers and product design engineers, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
An Apple representative declined to comment.
