27.04.2009 17:20 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Did Apple Quietly Fire 1,600 Associates?

According to the last figures provided by Apple for its retail division, it included 14,000 employees on March 28th 2009, whereas the same division was counting 15,600 associates at the end of the previous quarter. So, did Apple fire 1,600 collaborators, or it was mostly employees with a time-defined contract? For sure, many people would like to have information about this topic, especially considering that Apple released better than expected financial figures for the past quarter, making this potential lay out difficult to justify on the short term If Apple indeed fired employees during the last quarter, it would be the first time since 2003, according to our sources. As we found it out later on and mentionned it in our forum, those figures were not "employees" but FTE (full-time equivalent), so including temporary jobs. In addition, it was unfair to compare with the previous quarter as the latest was including Christmas period and Apple was probably recruiting many temporary jobs to help

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