StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Exactly.No more damage controlling than you're over emphasizing of it.
Microsoft hired more than 50k workers over the pandemic, and hired more than 40k people in 2022 alone. Where were you applauding that when it was announced? Where were you when it was announced that Amazon was laying off 18k people? What about Meta and Google laying off over 10k apiece?
But here you are front and center making sure nobody states the obvious.
I said something similar earlier today. Nobody ever brings up the hiring sprees. They only complain when a company announces firings. If everyone went by layoff articles, every big company would have zero employees by now as people assume a layoff of lets say 5000 people means forever the company is locked in stone a negative 5000 people count. But in order to get there in the first place, the company hired at least 5000 people. But you'll never hear about that.
Here's MS employee count since 2010. From 93,000 to 220,000. It's more than doubled in 12 years. That's about 7.5% employee growth per year for 12 years. Not surprisingly, it gyrates up or down and not a smooth 7.5%, but over time that's what it is since then.
Microsoft: Number of Employees 2010-2023 | MSFT
Interactive chart of Microsoft (MSFT) annual worldwide employee count from 2010 to 2023. <ul style='margin-top:10px;'> <li>Microsoft total number of employees in 2023 was <strong>221,000</strong>, a <strong>0% decline</strong> from 2022.</li> <li>Microsoft total number of...
www.macrotrends.net
Even cooler, here's an employee count chart for big tech companies that only goes up to about 2015, but close enough to give an idea of employees (theres a few more cool charts in the link)
Last edited: