It’s that time of year again, the leaves are falling, the temperature’s getting colder, and Thanksgiving has arrived in the United States. With that in mind, the staff of O’Grady’s PowerPage will be spending the holiday with friends, family, food, and both football and some amazing World Cup matches to follow. We hope you do […]
Apple on Thursday notified its employees base that hourly workers would receive a minimum of $22 per hour, and higher in certain markets. Per the Wall Street Journal, the pay increase comes as the company seeks to deal with inflation, a tight labor market, and recent unionization efforts. The updated wage represents a 45 percent […]
With a steady stream of COVID-19 lockdowns in China, Apple is now apparently menacing an “action plan” to diversity its supply chain management risks out of the country. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, China-based suppliers such Foxconn have struggled with lockdowns. In these cases, factories have either needed to stop production for a certain period […]
Apple has walked back a requirement preventing some users from receiving discounts through its education storefront. Last week, the company began requiring that customers taking advantage of educational discounts in the United States verify their status as a teacher, student, or school staff member through UNiDAYS. As of Friday, discounted iPads, Macs, and other products can be […]
Apple has begun requiring that customers within the United States verify that they’re currently active students, teachers, or staff members at educational institutions in order to access educational discounts on products. As the store was accessible to all, some customers may have used it even if they weren’t an education customer, which likely led Apple […]