HP's 300,000 employees
Wait a minute: HP employs 300,000 people??
Three hundred thousand people?
That's nearly Coventry. Actually, it's almost exactly Kingston upon Hull, but Kingston upon Hull is a bit of a mouthful, so I'll stick with "nearly Coventry".
HP employs a city almost the size of Coventry. The mind - well, my mind at any rate - boggles.
Comments:
Have you been following the rounds of layoffs that hit some of the Japanese electronics companies? I seem to remember news reports of a wave of them laying off tens of thousands at a time recently -- I didn't realize they were that big to begin with.
Anyway, if Wikipedia is to be trusted *ahem*, and the Guardian is to be trusted also, then it looks like HP *hired* at leas t 50k people in 2008, because they didn't make the list of 250k+ companies from 2007 from Fortune magazine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_employees
But Google Finance puts them at 321k now, so the Guardian article looks closer:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:HPQ
Anyway, if Wikipedia is to be trusted *ahem*, and the Guardian is to be trusted also, then it looks like HP *hired* at leas t 50k people in 2008, because they didn't make the list of 250k+ companies from 2007 from Fortune magazine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_employees
But Google Finance puts them at 321k now, so the Guardian article looks closer:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:HPQ
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