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Nicholas Gordon

Apple CEO Tim Cook: Mass layoffs are a 'last resort'

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As companies like Alphabet, Meta and Amazon slash tens of thousands of jobs, Apple stands alone as a major U.S. tech company that’s avoided mass layoffs. Nor is it planning to follow its Big Tech peers by slashing jobs, with Apple CEO Tim Cook calling them a “last resort” in a television interview Thursday.

Cook told CNBC that “mass layoffs is not something that we’re talking about at this moment,” though he did not rule out the possibility entirely. 

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