Monday, June 5, 2006
Apple Computer Inc. is shutting down its software development and support operations center here after just two months of operation, according to a report in published Sunday (June 4) in The Times of India. The Indian subsidiary, Apple Services India Pvt. Ltd., had been unveiled in April.
All 30 staff members were told last week that they were being laid off, according to the published report. Staffers will receive a severance package comprising two months’ salary.
The company’s marketing and sales arm here, employing about 25 people, is not affected and will continue to operate.
The Bangalore center was to have been the company’s first tech development and support operation outside its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. Apple had intended to grow the Bangalore center’s staff to 3,000 staff by the end of 2007.
Sources were mystified by the company’s sudden reversal of plans, particularly given the trend among other global technology companies to establish operations here.
The report quoted an Apple spokesman as saying only that the company had “reevaluated our options and decided to put our support center growth in other countries.”
By: DocMemory
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