Apple's 50 employee layoff rumor still unresolved.Rumors that Apple laid off 50 salespeople sales·peo·ple pl.n. Persons who are employed to sell merchandise in a store or in a designated territory. last week has created quite a stir online prompting the company's PR to respond and deny the rumors. Meanwhile, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. sources claim the layoffs are indeed true. Reports about the layoffs first began last Tuesday when ValleyWag said it was tipped off by a source in Apple's enterprise group. On Monday, CNET cited a source as saying that "roughly 50 salespeople were let go by the company for 'business and economic reasons'." "Layoffs in the sales group did happen, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. several sources who were brought into conference rooms in Austin and Cupertino last Tuesday and given white manila Manila (mənĭl`ə), city (1990 pop. 1,601,234), capital of the Philippines, SW Luzon, on Manila Bay. Manila is the center of the country's largest metropolitan area, its chief port, and the focus of all governmental, commercial, industrial, envelopes informing them that they had been laid off, amid plainclothes plain·clothes or plain-clothes adj. Wearing civilian clothes while on duty to avoid being identified as police or security: a plainclothes detective. security officers." Could it be then that Apple's PR division initially lied to reporters about the layoffs? If the layoffs actually happened, it would put Apple's PR in a tricky position, after receiving criticism on how it handled telling the public about Steve Jobs' health problems. Apple refused to comment on the latest story, continuing to say that there were no layoffs. |
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