There is no limit to how high headcount can go, for virtually any business, unless something stops it. That doesn't mean anyone is intentionally padding the ro

There is no limit to how high headcount can go, for virtually any business, unless something stops it. That doesn't mean anyone is intentionally padding the rolls, either. There is a certain momentum, as more people requires more supervisors and more support and more support for the support. 7400 people have a lot of company computers/IT, human resources requirements, payroll and accounting, etc. More people "requires" more people, in an ever-increasing spiral of hiring...until suddenly there is a hard stop that requires it to not increase, or even decrease. I have witnessed this in corporate, startup, university, and governmental organizations, so it's not much to do with the task to be done. More people requires more people, until and unless something else requires that there be less people instead. For Docusign, we have apparently just encountered that "something else".