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> much smaller

Not really, they have ~118k employees and are planning to remove about 7800, so about a 7% reduction. For reference Apple has 98k employees, Google 55k, Facebook 10k.



Around half of Apple's are retail employees. Microsoft has retail employees as well, but overall their employee mix is very different.

Still, your main point stands: a 7% reduction is perhaps significant, but probably not "large."




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