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Re:Inside Amazon's Engineering Culture: Lessons from Their S... by speff on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @06:28PM (#45740104)
That's 4% of corporate employees going by Reuter's 350k corp employee count[0]. Sounds well within the trimming-the-fat numbers. The rest of your comment alludes to an obligation towards improving the domestic economy. That can be done through regulation, but then there's a balancing act between under/over regulation. Too much and you end up in an EU situation that hinders small tech business growth.

So we come back to my previous statement/question. Above what profit amount should a company be obligated to keep (in their eyes) unproductive workers?

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-target...

Re:Inside Amazon's Engineering Culture: Lessons from Their S... by malfist on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:37PM (#45741612)
Except amazon trims the fat every year
Re:Inside Amazon's Engineering Culture: Lessons from Their S... by bdangubic on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @10:00PM (#45741766)
they are not “unproductive” :)

to answer your question - company should have a right to fire 99% of the people if they want at any point in time and there should be no regulation of any kind against that ever.

what america should do is add $250k per year per employee tax for any employee hired outside of the US.

Re:Inside Amazon's Engineering Culture: Lessons from Their S... by speff on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:29PM (#45742292)
No arguments from me there