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I just spent 15 minutes digging for a primary source on this 20,000 jobs number and couldn't find one. I suspect the source is as you called it, shoddy journalism.

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20% of 100k employees gets you roughly there

The 20% refers to a subset of divisions, not the entire company.

The 20k extrapolation is unfounded.

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