It's $967k profit per employee. The $1.6 million per employee is apparently cash flow, not profit. The most recent report has them at a great $2.9 billion prof

It's $967k profit per employee. The $1.6 million per employee is apparently cash flow, not profit. The most recent report has them at a great $2.9 billion profit over last year, depending on yen/$ conversion rate. http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/financials.asp?symbol=jp:7974&type=is http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/financials.asp?symbol=jp:79... The article says they have 3000 full-time employees even though many company functions are handled by contractors/outsourcing. The full vs. contract employee argument throws some noise into the original article's conclusions, since some of those high-tech companies probably use fewer contractors (more full-timers) than Google.