we’re conditioned when referring to a brand employer
like Apple to reduce them to a single point of view.
It's probably informative that British English tends to refer to most (all?) collective nouns this way. It's not some corporation-specific thing.
Sports teams are the most obvious example - a Brit would say "Team A have defeated Team B" rather than "Team A has defeated Team B."
We get constantly bombarded by our own employers with messages of unity and vision statements and the business plan and the message etcetera. So even when we pause and think about our own experiences and we realize how many varied voices and agendas there are within, we’re conditioned when referring to a brand employer like Apple to reduce them to a single point of view.