Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year

Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by grabcocque on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:37PM (#13561527)

Assuming constant rate of growth that means every man, woman and child on the planet will be an Amazon employee within eight years.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by sorenjan on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:22PM (#13562435)

And in less than 50 years the entire surface of the earth will be covered in a layer of Amazon employees more than 10 meters thick.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by Terr_ on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:39PM (#13562575)

And in 188 years the Earth may be a neutron star of about 1.2 solar masses, at last delivering on the ancient promise of a geocentric solar system.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by tim333 on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:54PM (#13562190)

I fear there is an error in your calculation. I make it 26 years if the world population is constant or 27 if it increases in a likely manner.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by joelwilliamson on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:50PM (#13561642)

At 50% per year, it will take 25 years to grow by a factor of 20,000.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by metaphorm on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:44PM (#13564011)

and within 80 years the entire solar system will be a rapidly expanding mass of Amazon employees asymptotically approaching the speed of light.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by banhfun on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:08PM (#13563326)

This reminds me of a bit from Better Off Ted.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by lsmod on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:19PM (#13565454)

They gonna have to build more parking spaces.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by harryh on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:40PM (#13561549)

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