Apple fired employees involved in car development

Apple has significantly reduced its workforce due to the cancellation of a number of projects. Bloomberg reports this.

The agency’s journalists found this out by studying documents submitted by the company to the California Employment Development Department. According to official information, Apple fired about 600 people. According to Bloomberg, these are specialists involved in the development of an electric car.

Journalists found that at least 87 people were fired from an office located in a secret location where Apple was creating its first car. Another 371 employees lost their jobs at Apple’s headquarters in Santa Clara, where the company also explored the auto industry.

The rest of the laid-off specialists belonged to various departments that were studying promising areas. At the same time, the agency’s authors noted that the company distributed some of the engineers involved in the Apple Car project to other departments, including those involved in the research of artificial intelligence (AI).

At the end of February, Bloomberg insiders found out that Apple had stopped working on creating a car. The project existed since 2014, the development team consisted of approximately two thousand people.