So they got all that money from Uncle Sam’s CHIPS Act only to lay off 10,000 employees and make themselves “lean”. Govt funded unemployment.

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    What’s crazy to me is that they are laying off more employees than the total number of full time employees I’ve work at for most companies.

    They are laying off 12% of their work force.

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      That’s what happens when companies are too fucking big, and intel was essentially a monopoly for a while.

      I have interned at AT&T while at University, laying off a 1000 people would be less than 1 % for them.

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        After seeing this article I went down a rabbit hole and IBM isn’t even in the top 10 US of most employees. Here’s some of the popular ones from the top 30.

        • Walmart - 2.3 Million
        • Amazon - 1.61 Million
        • DHL - 594,000
        • FedEx - 547,000
        • UPS - 536,000
        • Home Depot - 456,000
        • Target - 415,000
        • Kroger - 414,000
        • Marriott - 411,000
        • Starbucks - 381,000
        • Walgreens - 333,000
        • Pepsi - 318,000
        • Costco - 316,000
        • Chase - 309,000
        • Lowes - 300,000
        • IBM - 282,000
        • CVS - 219,000
        • Bank of America - 212,000

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_United_States–based_employers_globally

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          …i’m surprised to see DHL rank so highly in that list: what’s their domestic market focus, business-to-business freight logistics?..i seldom see DHL packages and when i do they’re almost exclusively of international origin…

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            That was also my thought as well. I only use DHL with some international orders, so I questioned their placement on that list.