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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by luckystartup on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:56PM (#13561683)
Wow. That's an enormous number of people. There are 54 countries with smaller populations.

Still, this is nothing to sneeze at. It looks like Amazon is now the 8th largest employer in the US [1]. Walmart is number 2, after the Federal government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers_in_t...

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by gowld on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:02PM (#13562781)
Someone edited Amazon's count but didn't change the ranks, and ignored the "2015" marker.
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