More than 120 Apple employees located in San Diego, California, are faced with a choice: relocate to Austin, Texas, or lose their jobs.
Last week, Apple told 121 of its employees at the location that it plans to close and relocate to Austin, business news outlet Bloomberg News reported.
Employees have until the end of February to decide whether they’ll move and if not, they will be terminated by April 26.
Employees were allegedly told by the company earlier that they would simply be relocated to another Apple office in San Diego.
The group of affected employees work for the Data Operations Annotations group, and are responsible for Apple’s artificial intelligence assistant, Siri, and its responses. The team worked on Siri in multiple languages such as Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Most of the affected group say they are unwilling to relocate, according to Bloomberg.
Apple will give employees who decide to leave four weeks of severance and an additional week for every year worked, according to Bloomberg. They’ll also get six months of health insurance.
Those who move to Austin by June will receive $7,000 stipends for relocation.














