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[deleted] t1_jdai4vd wrote

What in the hell did they need almost 15000 employees for? That's insane!

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Jabberwock11 t1_jdal62s wrote

There’s like 3 or 4 Indeed buildings in Austin and I’m always wondering out loud why tf they need so much staff

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vellyr t1_jdb4ugk wrote

I wonder that about every skyscraper office building. The amount of floor space in those things is gargantuan. It blows my mind that the average city employs enough spreadsheet-jugglers to fill even one of them.

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gabrielproject t1_jdd3bhk wrote

I wonder that about entire cities. How do so many people afford to live in all those expensive NYC apartments. Where/what are all these high paying jobs everyone seems to have?

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vellyr t1_jde26ik wrote

Yes! I get that some of it is generational, but I’m a battery engineer and I’m living in a 1 bedroom. Who are all these people that can afford houses, condos, or even big apartments?

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BruceChameleon t1_jdd1d4b wrote

They only have a couple floors of the downtown building, but yeah it's excessive.

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rabidbot t1_jdb0p94 wrote

They probably don’t need that many, but it takes a shit load of people to properly service, monitor, maintain and upgrade a platform as big as indeed.

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maria_la_guerta t1_jdb2968 wrote

There was similar surprise with the whole Twitter debacle - - people think tech companies are just their shitty Front Ends. 🤷

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TheSwiggityBoot t1_jdbcjez wrote

When u take PPP loans that cover employee wages for 2 years you employ as many as u can even if theres no work.

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sloblow t1_jdcqs6p wrote

This question needs to be asked about EVERY Federal Department and Agency. How many millions of utterly bullshit jobs are US taxpayers paying for? Doing nothing but attending meetings and "doing" email, all while surfing the web, is not work.

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