Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by NikolaNovak on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:17PM (#33470301)

This is an ignorant question: to what extent is it relevant that a hardware company like Apple effectively employs/contracts services of e.g. Foxconn to the tune of probably a million employees?

It feel a little bit misleading to take a look at company in isolation, as different companies have different dependencies and depths of integration.

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by nequo on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:24PM (#33474766)

Great point. Revenue reflects the value added of the entire supply chain, not just Apple's. EBITDA/employee instead of revenue/employee would be a more appropriate measure. GP's numbers revised:

  Twitter EBITDA per employee: $211mn / 8k employees = $26k per employee
  
  Google (Alphabet) EBITDA per employee: $93.7bn / 135k employees = $694k per employee
  
  Apple EBITDA per employee: $130.5bn / 154k employees = $847k per employee
  
  Twitter EBITDA per employee if 3k instead of 8k: $211mn / 3k employees = $70k per employee

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by madeofpalk on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:18PM (#33476096)

Apple's a funny one when it comes to staff numbers as well - they operate over 500 stores around the world, so their employee count is somewhat "boosted" by that.

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