Apple is laying off more than 600 workers in California, marking the company’s first wave of post-pandemic job cuts amid a broader wave of tech industry consolidation.
The workers were cut from eight offices in Santa Clara, according to the filings under the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as WARN.
In a recent regulatory filing, Apple said it had about 161,000 full-time equivalent employees.
But it’s not clear which departments or projects the employees were involved in.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday.
In recent months, video game maker Electronic Arts said it’s cutting about 5% of its workforce, Sony said its axing about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, Cisco Systems revealed plans to lay off more than 4,000 workers and social media company Snap, owner of Snapchat, announced its slashing 10% of its global workforce.
