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~450,000 employees over 300M people, equals about 37 employees over 25K people. Plus 500K delivery drivers , it's another 37 employees. So 74 employees. How m
by petra 6y ago
~450,000 employees over 300M people, equals about 37 employees over 25K people.
Plus 500K delivery drivers , it's another 37 employees.
So 74 employees. How many did work retail in that 25K town ?
- lagadu 6y ago450k employees globally, not just in the US.
- foota 6y agoIn fairness, not all the employees in a town work for one company, and Amazon isn't all there is now in that hypothetical town.
- javajosh 6y agoThe point is that the retail service industry was a big source of "bullshit jobs" that America needs to a) keep wealth distribution reasonable^, and b) keep people believing that success is all about hard work and gumption&. ^ There are differing opinions on what is "reasonable". & It sometimes is, but is usually about circumstance.
- karatinversion 6y agojavajosh, you seem to have a very strange model of the motives of managers in retail, a famously low-margin business.
- mgraupner 6y agoI guess this is added global workforce, not US.
- howlgarnish 6y agoI'd imagine the vast majority of that was in the US, since while Amazon operates in many countries, in most it's only a pale shadow of the US juggernaut. For example, in Singapore it's nearly useless for anything except books, and even there local inventory is pretty sad.
- mgraupner 6y agoDon't underestimate Europe, we have a population of about 500 Million people and Amazon is big here too.
- wasmitnetzen 6y agoNowhere near as big as in the US though, and it's only active in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy[1]. They have a total of 341 million people. In 2019, Amazon employed 600 000 people in the US, and only 115 000 in Europe[2]. [1]: The Swedish site did just open, but it's rubbish. [2]: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/files/doc_financials/2020/ar/2019-Annual-Report.pdf https://ir.aboutamazon.com/files/doc_financials/2020/ar/2019...
- cs2733 6y agoFor what it's worth, I'm in Portugal and have ordered from several amazon sites. Mostly it's from the Spanish one which gives free shipping on orders of 29€.
- ma2rten 6y agoAmazon is only in 7 countries in Europe. However, Amazon is in China and India. Both countries have a larger population than the US and EU combined.