All. Together.

At Apple, we create a culture of collaboration where different experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives come together to make something magical and meaningful. A culture with a North Star of dignity, respect, and opportunity for everyone. Because we’re not all the same. And that remains one of our greatest strengths.

Our impact at a glance.

Our products are inclusive by design.

Our products are inclusive by design.

Since our earliest days, inclusivity has been fundamental to our design process.

“Inclusion is not something you can tack on at the end, or do once at the beginning and you’re done; it’s an ongoing effort to constantly improve the experience that everyone has and it’s done to make people’s lives better.”

Jerremy Holland

Artificial Intelligence Research

We consider inclusivity at every step — and this work requires close collaboration among a wide range of teams. One such effort involved Face ID, where cross-functional teams came together to ensure that our machine learning model had extensive, diverse data. This meant taking into account a huge range of facial feature variations and coverings in order to build something that works for people with light or dark skin, for people of every age, for all kinds of facial shapes, and for people who are fully sighted, blind, or have low vision.

We’re building connections and community for Veterans.

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We’re building connections and community for Veterans.

Our comprehensive benefits are designed to help every Apple employee and their family feel healthy, supported, and secure.

To ensure that every Veteran at Apple understands the full range of health, financial, and wellness benefits available to them, including tailored benefits such as military time away, Apple’s Benefits and Wellness teams have devoted time to listen to the needs of the community. Veterans@Apple, one of the many Diversity Network Associations at Apple that is open to everyone, has been integral in providing advice and insight on the best ways to support Veterans and their families.

“Just letting people know what we offer helps bring about dialogue. It shows that it’s okay to seek help, it’s okay to talk to others about issues you may be dealing with.”

Mike Burtnick

Veterans@Apple and AppleCare at Home Manager

Ultimately, the goal for Veterans@Apple and the Benefits and Wellness teams is to work together and ensure that Veterans feel comfortable seeking the care they need, while bringing this community even closer together.

We’re strengthening pathways from HBCUs to engineering.

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We’re strengthening pathways from HBCUs to engineering.

Our New Silicon Initiative (NSI) is working with educational institutions around the U.S. including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to help inspire, prepare, and create opportunities for more students to enter careers in hardware technology — a critical and fast-growing field.

NSI is an ongoing partnership between Apple and universities including Alabama A&M, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Howard University, Morgan State, North Carolina A&T, Prairie View A&M, Stanford University, and U.C. Berkeley.

Apple provides hands-on learning exercises and course programming, and Apple engineers volunteer their time as guest lecturers. Students also receive one-on-one mentoring with the Apple volunteers.

“We know this will take time, but we’re energized by the strong interest from students, the collaboration with faculty, and the potential impact of the opportunities ahead of us,” says Jared Zerbe, Hardware Technologies.

We ensure pay equity for everyone, everywhere at Apple.

We ensure pay equity for everyone, everywhere at Apple.

Pay equity is embedded in Apple’s approach to compensation for all employees around the world. Since 2017, Apple has achieved and maintained gender pay equity globally. In the United States, we have also achieved pay equity with respect to race, ethnicity, and gender.

Each year, we partner with an independent third-party expert to examine each team member’s total compensation and make adjustments, where necessary, to ensure that we maintain pay equity.

We design features that make technology accessible for everyone.

A man and a woman converse together in sign language. A man and a woman converse together in sign language.

We design features that make technology accessible for everyone.

For many team members and customers in the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, sign language interpretation is critical — but having an interpreter on hand isn’t always an option. So a diverse group of people across multiple teams at Apple came together to provide access to interpretation on short notice.

“We felt strongly that we needed to solve the question, ‘How can we facilitate communication with our deaf and hard-of-hearing colleagues and customers in the way that works best for them?’”

Sarah Herrlinger

Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives

Traditional in-person sign language interpretation services require booking in advance and are challenging to scale, especially in the context of customer service and internal teams. So this cross-functional group collaborated to create an experience that would be a viable and immediate alternative for Apple customers and employees alike.

“We considered not just what would be adequate support, but what would really deliver an experience that recognizes and embraces people’s differences and cultures,” says Antony Kennedy, People Accessibility.

The result of these efforts is SignTime. SignTime helps people communicate with AppleCare and Retail Customer Care in their web browsers using American Sign Language (ASL) in the United States and Canada, British Sign Language (BSL) in the United Kingdom, and French Sign Language (LSF) in France. In 2023, the service launched in Australia, Japan (where it is known as HandTime), Germany (where it is known as SignChat), Spain, Italy, and Korea. In addition to in-person interpreters, customers visiting Apple Store locations can use SignTime to access a sign language interpreter remotely without booking ahead of time.

“At Apple, we provide tools for our team to do their best work. Equitable access to language is especially powerful within the deaf community, and SignTime is a step forward in that direction,” says Gus Shitama, Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives.

SignTime has already made a difference in how the team connects — both with each other and with customers. “After SignTime was released, I felt a stronger sense of belonging because it bridged the communication gap that previously existed,” says Ricky Winarta, Apple Carnegie Library. “This made it easier to build relationships, removed any unnecessary barriers when typing back and forth with customers and coworkers, and made the customer’s experience better.”

We help create community for our employees.

A group of employees are gathered together having a good time. A group of employees are gathered together having a good time.

We help create community for our employees.

For years, Apple employees all over the world have found community through our Diversity Network Associations (DNAs). These volunteer-led groups, which are open to all employees, are rooted in the celebration of global communities across Apple. They help foster a sense of belonging through respectful and inclusive engagements for all team members.

“When we’ve spoken to people about the culture of Apple and what really stands out to them, it’s inclusion. People really feel they can be themselves here.”

Ameha Molla

Global Recruiting Marketing

One way DNAs help make this happen is by partnering with teams across Apple to help employees of all backgrounds come together for recognition and celebration of important moments throughout the year. Now everyone who wants to learn about working and finding community at Apple can visit the Careers at Apple website to explore employee stories.

Learn more about DNAs

Apple Workforce

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Gender

Global

Female

35%

Male

64%

U.S. Race and Ethnicity bar graph

32% Asian
9% Black
15% Hispanic/Latinx
1% Indigenous
3% Multiracial
38% White

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