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CTOnews.com, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) although tech giants such as Amazon, Google and Meta have recently laid off a large number of employees, Apple has not done so. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned this and said he saw layoffs as a "last resort".

Cook acknowledged that Apple had made changes to its spending and hiring plans. For example, the company is "managing costs very strictly, cutting back on hiring in some areas and continuing to recruit in others".

Cook went on to say that layoffs are a "last resort" and that companies prefer to manage costs in other ways. "I think layoffs are a last resort and there is no certainty," Cook said. we want to manage costs in other ways as far as we can. "

A January report from the Wall Street Journal speculated why Apple avoided layoffs, and one of the biggest reasons cited in the report was that Apple had been much more restrained in hiring than other companies over the past three years. Between September 2019 and September 2022, the number of employees of its competitors grew by 57% to 100%, while Apple's workforce grew by about 20%.

CTOnews.com learned that the report also noted that Apple had adopted a "streamlined" approach to employee benefits (at least compared with other technology companies) and a very structured approach to projects with uncertain investment prospects. Apple, for example, is investing heavily in projects such as AR and VR, but more slowly than companies such as Meta are investing in new areas.

But as Cook himself said in today's interview, the possibility of Apple layoffs cannot be completely ruled out. But for now, it seems unlikely to happen in the near future. Apple also has other ways to reduce the number of employees, such as attrition: not replacing people who leave the company.

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