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		socalgal2 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2... This feels like one of those "damed statistics" type of posts. In 2008 Google employed 20k people. Now they employ 190k people. So from that point of view they'd have to fire 170k+1 people to be "worse than 2008". In 2020 they employed 135k people so they'd have to fire 55k people to get back there. Facebook: 2008: 0.8k, 2020: 58k, 2026: 74k Apple: 2008: 32k, 2020: 147k, 2026: 155k Microsoft: 2008: 91k, 2020: 163k, 2026: 220k

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willis936 2 days ago | [–]

Recessions are contractions: getting smaller, not being smaller.

tossandthrow 1 day ago | [–]

No, you can't cherry pick.

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