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> You name their competitors, like Amazon and Apple -- is it happening there? Their competitors are not direct comparisons, though, and percentages can be a li
by robertlagrant 3y ago
> You name their competitors, like Amazon and Apple -- is it happening there?
Their competitors are not direct comparisons, though, and percentages can be a little misleading. Spotify is ~7.5k employees, and does one thing. Amazon is ~1.5m employees, and does many, many things.
- ctvo 3y agoAmazon's layoffs are a percentage of corporate workforce, not their ~1.5 million warehouse + corporate pool.
- robertlagrant 3y agoAround end of 2022 and start of 2023, Amazon laid off 18k people from their corporate workforce - about 1.2% of their global employee count[0]. That seemed to be the figure the % above was from, as the % from their corporate workforce was 6%. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/05/amazon-to-axe-18000-jobs-citing-economic-uncertainty https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/05/amazon-to...