> This includes around 350,000 corporate workers, which include those in executive, managerial and sales roles, according to figures, external that Amazon submitted to the US government last year.
I’m fairly ignorant to these things, but why does Amazon need 350k corporate employees?
People losing jobs always sucks, but I can’t help but think that a company of this size inevitably has bloat that they do not need.
At this point it really does feel like a corporate welfare program.
Have you counted how many links there are on Amazon.com and how many services there are on AWS? Don't forget MGM etc. Just some back-of-the-envelope maths will tell you how many employees are needed.
I would agree that Amazon in general and AWS should never be this big. But that does not equal "bloated".
I’m fairly ignorant to these things, but why does Amazon need 350k corporate employees?
People losing jobs always sucks, but I can’t help but think that a company of this size inevitably has bloat that they do not need.
At this point it really does feel like a corporate welfare program.