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14k is massive layoff, even for a company as large as amazon. it isn’t about the “employees who aren’t necessarily doing the work you want done” for sure (all the while they are off-shoring by the more thousands while “america first”-run government is bailing out argentine :)

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That's 4% of corporate employees going by Reuter's 350k corp employee count[0]. Sounds well within the trimming-the-fat numbers. The rest of your comment alludes to an obligation towards improving the domestic economy. That can be done through regulation, but then there's a balancing act between under/over regulation. Too much and you end up in an EU situation that hinders small tech business growth.

So we come back to my previous statement/question. Above what profit amount should a company be obligated to keep (in their eyes) unproductive workers?

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-target...

Except amazon trims the fat every year

they are not “unproductive” :)

to answer your question - company should have a right to fire 99% of the people if they want at any point in time and there should be no regulation of any kind against that ever.

what america should do is add $250k per year per employee tax for any employee hired outside of the US.

No arguments from me there

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