Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart

Re:Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart by stephengillie on Friday July 24, 2015 @04:37PM (#9945022)

> Amazon Full Time Employees: 154,100

Post-Seattle construction: 224,100

Amazon is building office space for 70,000 workers in downtown Seattle.

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Re:Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart by codeonfire on Friday July 24, 2015 @05:04PM (#9945185)

But what part of that is just hubris or real estate investment? They arguably have enough people to run their retail and AWS operations and to expand those businesses without expanding people. A large portion of their other projects are just sort of grasping at straws to see if there is some sort of business there.

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Re:Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart by vehementi on Saturday July 25, 2015 @12:02AM (#9946499)

Are they moving any workers from existing sites into that building? Or will that new flagship building be fresh-hires-only?

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