Employee Resignation Phenomenon: Apple Immediately Distributes Bonuses Worth Rp 6 Billion

Apple is attempting to halt the phenomenon of employees resigning to move to competitor companies. One approach is by providing bonuses worth hundreds of thousands of US dollars to the iPhone Product Design team. A Bloomberg report states that the bonuses aim to prevent team members from being recruited by other companies, as cited from MacRumors on Friday (27/3/2026). The bonuses will be in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs), provided gradually over four years. To receive the full value, employees must remain working at Apple. The bonuses will range from US$200,000 (Rp3.3 billion) to US$400,000 (Rp6.7 billion) or possibly more, depending on Apple’s stock performance in the coming years. Several Apple employees are known to have joined other companies. One major tech rival aggressively poaching Apple employees is OpenAI. OpenAI has recruited several iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro engineers. Approximately 40 former Apple employees have been hired by the company behind ChatGPT. Similar bonuses were given by Apple in 2021 and 2022. At that time, bonuses were provided to engineers in silicon design, hardware, software, and operations. The reason is the same: to prevent employees from being poached by others. Additionally, to improve employee retention.