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Re:Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company press... by NathanKP on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:17PM (#27583019)
As a current Amazon employee I have to say that is pretty ludicrous. If you actually think Amazon could scale back to 10% of it's current employees without losing massive forward momentum and capacity to deliver results then I don't know what to say. All those metrics would suffer greatly in both the short and long term.

In order to scale back that far without suffering negative results you'd have to assume that those 90% of people aren't doing much day to day, so their loss would not be felt, and that is frankly not true and kind of insulting to the hard work that Amazon employees do.

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Re:Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company press... by void_mint on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:32PM (#27583260)
If a company makes a lot of money, does that mean every employee is responsible for generating the money they made? Is it possible to make a lot of money with not a lot of employees? Does Amazon make less money when employees take a lot of PTO?

I'll add 90% was hyperbole.

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