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Apple lays off hundreds of Bay Area employees after halting electric car project
Following the cancellation of its electric car project, Apple is cutting off 614 workers in California as part of its first mass job cuts in years.
The iPhone maker is getting ready to fire almost 600 workers, per documents it submitted to California’s Employment Development Department seen by News. ng on Friday.
With the exception of Apple, every significant tech business has started huge layoffs since late 2022.
However, that is now about to change at last.
The corporation moved eight offices in Santa Clara, California, as a result of claims that it had cancelled an eight-year-old electric car project.
Product design engineers, hardware engineers, and managers of “machine shops” are among the positions impacted, though the project itself was not mentioned in the filing.
Bloomberg claims that the majority of the impacted employees were working at buildings cited to its cancelled automobile project, while some were working at a facility for its next-generation screen development.
The notice does not identify which projects the employees were working on.
By the end of February, Apple completed both of these projects.
The automobile project, which the business internally referred to as “Project Titan,” was initiated in 2014, and on February 27, it informed staff members that it was ending.
At the time, Bloomberg revealed that some of the remaining workers on the auto project would be moved to Apple’s generative AI initiatives.
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