Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’

Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.world – 1123 points –
Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’
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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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What’s crazy to me is that they are laying off more employees than the total number of full time employees I’ve worked at for most companies.

They are laying off 12% of their work force.

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.

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

...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...

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