Even as its peers slash roles and redirect funds to other aspects of their business, Apple has largely sidestepped the wave of layoff announcements sweeping the rest of the tech sector and troubling America’s white-collar workers. Over the past few years, tech has become especially vulnerable to mass layoff, leading in private-sector job cuts in 2025, according to the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, and accounting for 154,445 of the 1.2 million announcements made last year. And