{"id":221022,"date":"2024-04-05T21:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T21:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/apple-to-axe-600-jobs-after-dropping-plans-for-self-driving-vehicles\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:19:13","slug":"apple-to-axe-600-jobs-after-dropping-plans-for-self-driving-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/apple-to-axe-600-jobs-after-dropping-plans-for-self-driving-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to axe 600 jobs after dropping plans for self-driving vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Apple-900x506.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Apple has avoided mass staff cuts in recent times, unlike other blue-chip firms that have acted to cull hundreds of thousands of roles since the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Apple CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/05\/04\/apple-layoffs-are-a-last-resort-tim-cook-says.html\">Tim Cook told CNBC<\/a> that the company did not envisage significant staff reductions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI view that as a last resort and, so, mass layoffs are not something that we\u2019re talking about at this moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Times and circumstances change, as evidenced in this development but Apple has not been impacted by cuts in the same way the likes of Amazon have decimated its workforce headcount.<\/p>\n<p>27,000 jobs were lost at Amazon in 2022, continuing through to this year, with Amazon Web Services announcing a fresh round of cuts this week, affecting hundreds of workers.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Microsoft, eBay and PayPal are said to have ditched an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/microsoft-ebay-paypal-among-tech-giants-34000-job-cuts-due-to-ai\/\">34,000 positions<\/a> recently, in a pivot to <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/category\/ai\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a> as companies revise their resources.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: Ideogram<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/apple-to-axe-600-jobs-after-dropping-plans-for-self-driving-vehicles\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Apple has avoided mass staff cuts in recent times, unlike other blue-chip firms that have acted to cull hundreds of thousands of roles since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330278,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221022\/revisions\/330278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}