Internal memo: Apple names Carol Surface as its first chief people officer, shifting human resources responsibilities away from SVP of Retail Deirdre O'Brien
Apple is often multiple onion-layers of toxic in how it operates. Here, the top exec overseeing all the Employee Retaliation was dealing with an apparently sexist boss who literally doubled her workload, adding the work of the one other lady on her team after that lady quit.
Apple is naming its first Chief People Officer - Carol Surface from Medtronic - and shifting over HR responsibilities from Deirdre O'Brien, its retail chief, CEO Tim Cook says in memo to employees. Surface starts at Apple in March and will report to Cook. https://www.bloomberg.co…
There's a lot more to say about this, but I want to first point out that Tim Cook giving a women exec two-people's worth of work (her job + Ahrendts job) & then everyone pretending that it was super normal & fine for multiple years was really messed up. https://twitter.com/...
Let me translate: Apple's VP of Human Resources resigns from role in disgrace following a record-breaking amount of federal labor law violations found against Apple. https://twitter.com/...