Tag: Apple
First Apple employees’ union formed in Maryland, US
An Apple CORE — short for Coalition of Organised Retail Employees — union has finally come into being for the first time in the...
Apple staff unhappy with new hybrid model
Some employees of Apple have written to the management of the tech major expressing their disapproval of the new hybrid policy, which fixes three...
Apple workers in NYC demand $30 per hour
Employees of the Apple store, situated in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal are demanding $30 per hour as minimum wage. Fruit Stand Workers’...
Apple employees unwilling to return to office, prefer to quit
Starting 11 April, 2022, Apple was looking forward to implementing the hybrid model. However, Apple employees seem rather unwilling, with some of them even...
Apple to spend $50 mn on supplier employees’ L&D
Apple has decided to provide the employees of its suppliers, access to learning opportunities and a chance at skill development. It has set up...
Ex Apple staffer accused of tax evasion, money laundering
Dhirendra Prasad, a 52-year old ex-employee of Apple has been accused of defrauding the tech company of over US $10 million through money laundering,...
Apple’s retail staff to get more parental leave, vacations and paid...
Apple employees in the US can look forward to more paid sick leave, vacation days as well as parental leaves.
As per media reports, Apple...
Apple staff to present proof of booster jab
All eligible employees of Apple will be allowed four weeks’ time to get their booster jabs. If they fail to do so, they will...
Apple shuts 8 retail stores in the US and Canada as...
Technology giant, Apple, has decided to shut eight stores in the US and Canada with the surge in the number of COVID-19 cases amongst...
Apple postpones ‘return-to-office’, offers $1,000 bonus for WFH expenses
Close on the heels of making masking mandatory again at all Apple retail stores in the US and temporarily closing locations due to the...
Apple reminds staff of freedom to discuss salaries, working conditions in...
Apple has reminded its employees that they are free to discuss their wage issues, hours of work and working conditions in public platforms as...
Apple to implement hybrid work model from February 1, 2022
Tech giant, Apple has worked out a plan to call its employees back to offices after 18 months of working from home. Tim Cook,...
Apple hiring in India; retail stores in Mumbai, Delhi soon
Apple is gearing to open its retail stores in India, as is evident from its hiring. Now that the pandemic is on its way...
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.
Why a coaching culture and not any other culture?
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,”...
27 years of perfect attendance for what?
After 27 years of hard work and perfect attendance, an employee looks forward to being rewarded for his service. While Kevin Ford, an employee...
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Shriram Housing Finance aims to improve women’s representation at workplace
Shriram Housing Finance, the affordable housing company, has launched the ‘SHeFirst’ programme to improve the representation of women at the workplace. Under this programme,...
Fynd to hire 2,000 more in 2023
Having opened a new office in Bengaluru, Fynd, the omnichannel platform is gearing to hire at least 2,000 more engineers by the end of...
27 years of perfect attendance for what?
After 27 years of hard work and perfect attendance, an employee looks forward to being rewarded for his service. While Kevin Ford, an employee...
Loneliness at workplace: Increasingly becoming fatal
Loneliness at the workplace is so rampant across organisations that it has started affecting the bottom line. An analysis by Cigna in 2020, suggests...
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