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Apple Lays Off 50 Salespeople
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews —
... has confirmed that the company had lay offs yesterday. About fifty salespeople were laid off. This is not considered a major layoff otherwise Apple would have had to file through the WARN Act. Many of the cuts were made in Apple’s enterprise group.
Apple’s enterprise group sells servers and other products to corporate customers. These lay offs in the enterprise group indicates that Apple will be primarily focusing on consumer markets going forward.
[via Valleywag] ...
Apple Trims Enterprise Sales Force: Report
Silicon Alley Insider —
Apple (AAPL) trimmed 50 employees in its enterprise sales force, Gawker reports, citing an Apple source.
If true, that's a tiny cut -- but not a surprise. As the recession deepens, corporate IT purchasing is shrinking fast.
Gartner expects PC shipments to drop 12% this year -- the worst decline in the industry's history -- including a 32% drop in desktop PC shipments.
We've reached out to Apple for comment. We'll update if we hear back. See Also: Apple's New Macs Patch One Weak Spot, Not Another (AAPL) Apple's Mac ...
Apple: Sales Layoffs Story Not True
Silicon Alley Insider —
An Apple (AAPL) spokesman says Gawker's report that 50 salespeople were laid off yesterday is not true.
Is it possible that somewhere in Apple's ranks of 32,000, staffing has shifted around during the recession? Sure, we assume -- but Apple wouldn't comment on that.
And anyway, Apple would have to notify the state if it were going to cut jobs in California, where it's based. Last May, Apple cut 174 jobs in Elk Grove, Calif., to move some sales and support to Texas, according to the WSJ.
What we do know, according to Apple: 50 salespeople were ...
More Job Cuts at Apple?
Gawker: valleywag —
... A recent report of layoffs in Apple's sales force sparked some controversy, because corporations are supposed to file notice of mass layoffs in advance and Apple PR denied the layoffs. I absolutely believe they happened, despite ...
CNET: Apple Lied About Layoffs We Reported
Gawker: valleywag —
After Valleywag reported that Apple had laid off 50 salespeople last week, Apple spokesman Steve Dowling issued a blanket denial: "Not true." Turns out the layoffs happened, and Dowling lied, CNET News reports. No surprise that an Apple flack lied. Under CEO Steve Jobs, the company has made a fetish of secrecy, misdirection, and fabrication. Dowling may have been following orders, or he may have been misled by a colleague himself. (He has not responded to a voicemail asking for comment.) But on matters as important as Jobs's own health, Apple ...
Is Apple Lying About Layoffs?
Silicon Alley Insider —
... the truth again?
Monday, CNET's Tom Krazit reported that "roughly 50 salespeople were let go by the company for 'business and economic reasons', according to one source." He adds: "[L]ayoffs in the sales group did happen, according to several sources who were brought into conference rooms in Austin and Cupertino last Tuesday and given white manila envelopes informing them that they had been laid off, amid plainclothes security officers."
These are the layoffs first reported by Gawker last week -- layoffs that Apple denied publicly to us and other ...
Reports Indicate Enterprise Layoffs at Apple, But Context is Cloudy
The Mac Observer —
Reports Indicate Enterprise Layoffs at Apple, But Context is Cloudy by Bryan Chaffin on March 10th, 2009 at 5:23 PM Reports began circulating Tuesday that Apple recently laid off some 50 people from its Enterprise sales force ( CNet , Valleywag , 9to5Mac ). While it appears fairly certain that this group was given walking papers, the context of Apple's actions mean that not all may be as it appears, especially as our own sources indicate that a subgroup in Enterprise has seen a headcount increase. The layoff stories began March 3rd with the report that ...
Conflicting reports arise over Apple layoffs
Infinite Loop —
... laid off in Austin: However, the layoffs in the sales group did happen, according to several sources who were brought into conference rooms in Austin and Cupertino last Tuesday and given white manila envelopes informing them that they had been laid off, amid plainclothes security officers. It's still not clear whether the Mac Hardware layoffs occurred on Friday. It's hard to know who to believe in this situation, but it isn't hard to believe that Apple may be cutting staff. As Gawker mentions , since the supposed layoffs are for under 500 people, Apple doesn't have to ...
Is Apple laying off or staffing up?
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... It’s hard to make sense of the conflicting reports of recent layoffs at Apple (AAPL). Valleywag’s gossip editor in two separate posts said as many as 50 employees were laid off here and there. Apple PR flatly denied the first report and went semi-mum about the second. Then CNET’s Tom Krazit interviewed several unnamed sources who said they were indeed called into a conference room and handed white manila walking papers in the presence of plainclothes security officers. (link)
It’s all quite ...
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