Apple will lay off 614 employees based in California announced. The company states in its WARN file that workers were notified of their dismissal on March 28 and that they will be dismissed on May 27.
Although Apple does not specify exactly which employees will lose their jobs, it is thought that there is a possibility that employees in the autonomous electric car project, which has been talked about for a long time and was eventually canceled, may be laid off. In February, it was reported that Apple was closing its automobile project and most of its 2,000 employees would be transferred to the company’s productive artificial intelligence work.
One of the reasons the layoffs are believed to have affected what happened with the auto project was that the announcement made no mention of Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, but of smaller satellite offices working on secret projects like the driverless car project. Some of the positions that were laid off are; They appear as machine shop managers, hardware engineers and product design engineers.
Although CNBC reached out to Apple, it is stated that the company does not want to comment on the issue.
