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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by reassess_blind on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:01AM (#45732291)
Companies have no incentive to employ as many people as possible. Really it’s the opposite, make as much money as possible, while paying as few employees as possible.
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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by bluGill on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:28AM (#45732633)
That is the incentive to employee more people - they can do more with those people. There is a balance between the two though. More people means less focus.
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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by dmschulman on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:07AM (#45732383)
The incentive many times is to create a scarcity of talent for other tech companies by hiring as many experts as you can. Facebook, Amazon, and many others have been employing this strategy for over a decade, but now that the era of cheap money is over we're seeing a pivot away.
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