Tag: Apple
Apple on the lookout for engineers, interns in Bangalore
Apple intends to hire engineers and interns in India for its office in Bangalore, under its App Accelerator programme.
The Company will take on full-time...
Apple to test unvaccinated staff each time they enter office
Tech giant Apple has announced that from October 24, it will require its unvaccinated corporate employees to get tested for COVID-19 every time they...
Apple fires #AppleToo movement leader
A programme manager at Apple, who is also a leader of the #AppleToo movement, was fired by the Company for what Apple called ‘non-compliance’.
Janneke...
Unrest amongst Apple workforce?
Of late, many accounts of harassment, pay disparity, sexual and verbal abuse, retaliation and discrimination have come to the fore at Apple, along with...
Apple to ask US staff to report vaccination status by mid-September
To ensure safety as offices reopen, Apple is asking all of its employees in the US to report their vaccination status by mid-September, as...
Apple’s suppliers luring workers with attractive bonuses
Suppliers of Apple in China are prepping to meet the surge in demand that is anticipated following the upcoming launch of the iPhone 13...
Apple sends employee on indefinite leave for speaking up about sexism...
A senior programme manager at Apple, Ashley Gjøvik, alleges that she has been put on administrative leave for being vocal about the working condition...
Apple engineers struggle with cost of living
With hiring quality talent becoming more of a challenge for Apple with each passing day, the Company may be seriously looking to decentralise. Apparently,...
Apple insists on 3 days in office, staff seek resist
Not long ago, Apple had communicated its return to office policy to its workforce, requiring everyone to come into office thrice a week. However,...
Foxconn luring workers with signing bonuses ahead of iPhone 13 launch
Foxconn is offering attractive signing bonuses to its new hires. In fact, it is offering about $1,235 as signing bonus to former employees who...
Apple manufacturers step up hiring in India
ple has stepped up manufacturing in India, to benefit from the Indian government’s Rs 40,000-crore production-linked incentive scheme for smartphones. Both Foxconn and Wistron,...
Apple’s workforce to work from office thrice a week
In an attempt to get back to the ‘normal’ mode of working, Apple plans to allow its employees to work from office on Mondays,...
Apple terminates employee who authored ‘sexist and racist’ book
When Antonio Garcia Martinez joined Apple recently, he would never have thought he would lose the job so soon. His book called Chaos Monkeys...
Apple to create 20,000 jobs in the US by 2026
Apple has revealed intentions to invest over $430 billion and create 20,000 new jobs in the US over the next five years. This will...
Former Indian employee of Apple alleges discrimination
A former Indian employee of Apple has accused the Company of discrimination and taken it to court. Anita Nariani Schulze, who was working as...
Wistron’s plant to resume operations under probation, hire 15,000
Wistron’s plant at Kolar, Karnataka, is all set to resume operations and hire about 15,000 workers for the purpose. The Company, which makes the...
Apple puts Wistron Corp on probation following workers’ violence in ...
Apple has put Wistron on probation saying it will not award new contracts to the Company until the workers’ issues are addressed. Wistron, the...
Apple, Facebook to continue WFH for most employees until June, 2021
Apple has no plans of calling its employees back to office before June 2021 as the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down, leave...
Vandalism at Wistron plant, thousands of iPhones stolen by agitated workers
Wistron’s iPhone-manufacturing plant in Kolar, Karnataka, witnessed violence on December 12, when more than a 1000 disgruntled workers, angry over non-payment of salary and...
Apple plans to get few employees back to offices soon
At a time when most global tech companies have either decided to allow all their employees to work from home (WFH) for another year,...
Organisations keeping Coronavirus at bay, curtailing employee travel to China
Companies, such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook are going out of the way to keep their workforce safe from the Coronavirus, which has...
Can employees start out on their own while still employed?
When a former architect in Apple’s custom processors wing left the Company after nine years to start his own venture, he was sued by...
Lawsuit accuses Apple, Google, Microsoft, Dell, Tesla of abetting use of...
A lawsuit filed in Washington, by International Rights Advocates, is demanding damages from some of the big names in the technology space, including Google,...
Former employee accuses Apple of breaching personal privacy
Former Apple employee, Gerard Williams, has accused the American multinational technology company of breaching his privacy, by monitoring the text messages on his Iphone.
Williams...
Apple offers additional benefits to new parents in its workforce
Technology company, Apple, has rolled out additional benefits for new parents in its workforce. It is offering them a four-week extension over and above...
About 160 Intel engineers in Bengaluru will join Apple’s global hardware...
Almost 160 engineers who were working for Intel’s smartphone business in Bengaluru, will now become part of Apple’s global hardware team. This follows Apple’s...
300 Apple employees fired for listening to Siri’s private recordings
Apple has terminated 300 employees in Ireland, for listening to more than a 1000 of its digitial assistant, Siri’s, audio recordings of people’s conversations,...
Mark Zuckerberg losing popularity among employees
Employees at Facebook seem to like their CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, much less now. According to a survey by Glassdoor, for the very first time...
Apple layoffs to affect mostly engineers and project managers
Apple is all set to lay off dozens of engineers and project managers associated with its self-driving car project, Project Titan. Engineers and their...
Apple’s global HR head will run retail too
Deirdre O’Brien, who heads global HR at Apple, will now also lead the retail division. She will be taking on the responsibilities currently being...
Apple staff puts in 250,000 hours of volunteer work, donate $125...
Apple’s ‘Giving’ programme saw its employees putting in more than 250,000 hours of volunteer work and raising $125 million in donation to non-profit organisations...
Apple gives stock worth $2500 to its employees; plans to hire...
Both full-time and part-time employees of the Company, below the level of director, will be eligible for the bonus stocks.
Apple’s first ever participation in campus recruitment in India
The Company will hire from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad along with Google and Microsoft.
Apple manufacturing plant in India to create more jobs
The American technology company plans to set up a plant in Karnataka.
Apple’s unusual job opening for improving Siri
The Company is looking for resources capable of making its virtual assistant better at handling emergencies and saving lives.
Apple Inc gets sales head Deirdre O’Brien to lead HR
A veteran of Apple, O’Brien has been working for the company for almost 30 years now. She had joined Apple in 1988.
Apple’s HR head Denise Young Smith is now VP, ‘inclusion and...
In its efforts to get more inclusive, Apple has also included more people of colour in its product promotions and ads.
Samsung, LG sued over US employee anti-poaching agreement
A civil lawsuit was filed last week, accusing Samsung and LG of agreeing to avoid poaching each other's US employees.
Apple rethinks strategy on self-driving cars; lays off employees
The tech giant has apparently shut shop on parts of its most ambitious initiatives — the self-driving car.
Google, Apple, RBI, FB, SBI: Preferred destination for business students
Among other Indian companies, Infosys, TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), Air India, Flipkart, Wipro, Reliance Industries, Tata Motors, ONGC, L&T, Mahindra & Mahindra, Aditya Birla Group, Indian Oil, BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.), Snapdeal, HCL and NPTC also feature in the list.
People Management: Where did Apple go wrong?
A blog by a former Apple employee forces one to question the work culture in today’s organisations.
Coaching with emotional intelligence
There is a ‘chicken or the egg’ question when considering Emotional Intelligence or quotient (EQ) as a coaching tool. Must a coach be emotionally...
£9.50 per hour will be the national minimum wage in the...
Starting April 2022, the national living wage in the UK will go up. Those over the age of 23 will earn £9.50 an hour,...
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“If CEO is the father of an organisation, CHRO is the mother,” Pankaj Lochan
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Binding multi-faceted employees with Titan Values
Titan has different sets of employees for different functions and verticals, ranging from the shopfloor to the retail stores. How do you bring in...
The right people policy for startups – Madan Nagaldinne
You happen to have worked mostly with large organisations. How different is it working for a startup now?
When you have worked for big...
