Apple losing employees in health, iCloud and AI teams, report says
- Apple is seeing an increase in employee departures, according to Bloomberg.
- Apple may see stunted development in each group due to these departures.
- Employees have been less optimistic about their work, the report says.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman (reliability: 84.38%) reports that Apple has been seeing an increase in company departures in the Health, AI and iCloud teams. According to reports, lack of optimism and Apple's back-to-office strategy are possible reasons behind the burst of staff departures.
Reports show that two big names have recently departed from Apple: Emily Fox, who was in charge of Health AI research, will be departing later this year. And, Ruslan Meshenberg who was the leader for Apple's Cloud infrastructure team has just left for Google. With the number of employees leaving, it's reported that Apple may see stunted development in each group.
Gurman has given a number of possible reasons for the recent spike in engineer departures. Gurman states that after hiring an “atypically high number of engineers”, it’s only natural that, eventually, with a high rate of hiring comes a high rate of departing.
Apple's back-to-the-office policy has also had a big part in recent employee departures. Apple management has been pushing employees to return to offices, despite pleas from employees who are asking for more flexible arrangements.
In June, the senior VP of retail and people Deirdre O’Brien said that Apple believes that “in-person collaboration is essential to our culture and our future.
If we take a moment to reflect on our unbelievable product launches this past year, the products and the launch execution were built upon the base of years of work that we did when we were all together in-person.
A third reason for the recent spike in departures could be because employees have been "less optimistic about their work." This includes Apple's Health team, which has apparently recently struggled with some internal issues, and users are clamoring for additional Apple Watch sensors like those for blood-sugar monitoring.
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