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Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu... by pkaye on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @06:45PM (#39197651)
I got the total employees for the past few years for a comparison:

2019: 118,899

2020: 135,301

2021: 156,500

2022: 190,234

2023: 182,502

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/numb...

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Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu... by SeanAnderson on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @06:56PM (#39197765)
It is absolutely mind-boggling that a company as large as Google could increase their headcount by 62% in three years.
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Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu... by lesuorac on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:44AM (#39205135)
Not really, their annual revenue went from 161.857 B (2019) up 89% to 307.394 B (2023).
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Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu... by SeanAnderson on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:54AM (#39206055)
Nah, I'm pretty sure that's just also mind-boggling lol
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Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu... by Ekaros on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @02:14AM (#39200949)
Has Google done anything new and major in these years? Like as a product.

So could there still be 10-20% extra as workers?

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