{"id":130456,"date":"2021-11-12T06:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/apples-increasing-focus-on-health-seen-in-recent-hiring-trends-new-board-member"},"modified":"2021-11-12T06:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:23:15","slug":"apples-increasing-focus-on-health-seen-in-recent-hiring-trends-new-board-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/apples-increasing-focus-on-health-seen-in-recent-hiring-trends-new-board-member","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Increasing Focus on Health Seen in Recent Hiring Trends, New Board Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apples-increasing-focus-on-health-seen-in-recent-hiring-trends-new-board-member.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple has been talking for years about the role it wants to play in human health, led by the Apple Watch and its array of health-related features. With the Apple Watch maturing and Apple increasing its integration of health-focused hardware and software, several pieces of evidence suggest the company is positioning itself for an even bigger expansion in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>According to trends compiled by Linkedin and seen by <em>MacRumors<\/em>, over the past year, Apple\u2019s open job listings in health-related fields have increased by over 220%, with a significant portion of the increase coming in just the last several months. Apple\u2019s health-focused hiring has been the fastest-growing segment for the company over the past year, followed most closely by sales and IT specialists, such as in cloud computing and security, according to the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has been talking for years about the role it wants to play in human health, led by the Apple Watch and its array of health-related features. With the Apple Watch maturing and Apple increasing its integration of health-focused hardware and software, several pieces of evidence suggest the company is positioning itself for an even [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1495,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-health","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}