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Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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%E2%80%93based_employers_globally

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

...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...