Apple has not had to make thousands of employees redundant because it was careful not to hire too many over the pandemic — and new figures show just how careful it was.
Tim Cook has already said that Apple is being cautious in its recruitment following the pandemic and the downturn that’s led to massive job cuts in Big Tech firms. What he hasn’t mentioned is that Apple was also careful not to over-recruit when the pandemic was its worst.
According to new figures from Bloomberg, the number of Apple employees grew 20% between 2020 and 2022. That compares to a 60% increase at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and close to 100% at Amazon and Salesforce.
That isn’t a near-doubling of employee numbers, but it is almost a doubling of how many new hires were added to the pre-COVID staffing levels.
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