The combined number of full- and part-time employees at Amazon.com has increased significantly since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, after peaking at **** million in the first quarter of 2022, Amazon's workforce saw a sharp decline. In the third quarter of 2025, the U.S. e-commerce multinational headquartered in Seattle, Washington, had ********* full- and part-time employees. Amazon’s financial dance Amazon’s sharp decline in its workforce is mirrored in the annual net income incurred by the company. In 2022, amazon.com reported a net loss of around *** billion U.S. dollars. However, this is not seen in the company's net sales revenue, which has generally continued to increase over the years, with North America accounting for the largest share. In the final quarter of 2023, amazon.com recorded its highest revenue ever, generating a total of *** billion U.S. dollars. Amazon's labor dwindles When taking a closer look at the number of workers that amazon.com has employed over the past decade, it is evident that there has been a noticeable decline recently. From 2021 to 2023, there was a decrease of over ****** employees working for the online marketplace. Even with this decrease in employee count, Amazon still ranks second only to Walmart when comparing leading global companies by the number of employees. To further illustrate, Walmart employed a workforce of *** million individuals in 2023, while Amazon employed *** million.

The combined number of full- and part-time employees of Amazon.com has increased significantly since 2017. Amazon’s headcount peaked in 2021 when the American multinational e-commerce company employed ********* full- and part-time employees, not counting external contractors. However, in 2024, the number dropped to *********. E-commerce crunch The workforce reduction of Amazon follows the mass layoffs hitting the entire e-commerce sector. With the full reopening of physical stores after the COVID-19 pandemic, online shopping demand decreased, leading online retailers to restructure their businesses, including personnel costs. Diversifying business With online retail sales growing slower due to recession and inflation, Amazon can still leverage other profitable revenue segments — from media subscriptions to server hosting and cloud services. On top of that, in 2023 Amazon monitored small enterprises operating in different fields and strategically invested in them, as disclosed startup acquisitions indicate.

Amazon UK Services Ltd. is responsible for Amazon's logistics and fulfilment operations in the United Kingdom (UK). in the financial year ending December 31, 2023, the company employed roughly 60,000 people throughout its warehousing and logistics workforce in the UK.

In 2023, Amazon.com was the top-ranked internet company based on number of employees. The e-commerce giant reported a workforce of more than **** million employees. Amazon has consistently topped the ranking as the online company with the biggest workforce, but the global COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap as e-commerce has boomed since. During the same period, Meta (formerly Facebook Inc.) had a total of ****** full-time employees. Additionally, Google's parent company Alphabet had ******* full-time workers in 2024.

Amazon is one of the most recognisable brands in the world, and the third largest by revenue. It was the fourth tech company to reach a $1 trillion market cap, and a market leader in e-commerce,...

Walmart had about *** million employees in 2024, the highest of all companies worldwide that year. Walmart also led ranking of companies by revenue in 2024. In terms of employees, Amazon followed in second with ahead of Foxconn, also known as Hoi Han Precision Industry.WalmartIn the United States, where Walmart has its highest number of employees, there are ***** stores as of 2023, and some ***** of these stores are Walmart’s Supercenters . The company has expanded all around the world, especially having a high number of stores in Central America. Amazon The number of people employed by Amazon has increased rapidly in recent years. In 2019, less than ******* people worked at the technology company, whereas it employed nearly *** million in 2024. As with the number of employees, its net revenue has also increased over the last years.

General

This dataset contains valuable information about population statistics, labor workforce data, and monthly trends in hirings and layoffs in the construction sector. The data spans from 2002 to 2019 and focuses on the cities of Tucuruí and Altamira, both situated in the Amazon region and host to two of Brazil's largest hydroelectric dams: the Tucuruí and Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plants.

My original academic work, titled "Magnetic Effect: Labor Turnover in the Construction Sector in Altamira-PA (2002-2019)," was published in 2022 and can be accessed via this link.

This dataset provides valuable insights into the challenges faced by the construction sector in rapidly developing Amazonian cities with significant hydroelectric projects. The data illustrates the sector's susceptibility to sharp fluctuations and its struggle to establish sustained local economic growth over the long term. These dynamics are evident through key indicators, such as the hiring rate (AdmRate) and firing rate (ShutRate). Moreover, the concept of labor flexibility, characterized by the high turnover of employees, is a significant economic phenomenon, primarily quantified through the TurnoverRate indicator.

\[ Turnover_t = \frac{min(Adm, Shut)}{Stk_{t-1} * 100} \]

Economic observation: One peculiarity of this rate is its pro-cyclical nature in the economy. A peculiarity of this rate is its pro-cyclical nature in the economy, i.e. when the dynamics of activities are on the rise, the number of hires increases, so a greater number of layoffs is observed due to new possibilities of hiring with higher salaries. labor turnover tends to decrease.

In addition to the data that informs workforce turnover, there is information about qualification and employment duration that supports the thesis. For instance, data regarding the educational qualification level of each worker, such as years of schooling (if illiterate [Ill], has up to incomplete fifth grade of primary education (5thGIn), or any other year between the fifth and ninth grade of incomplete primary education (IncPriEd), or complete primary education (ComPriEd), incomplete high school (IncHS) or complete high school (ComHS), or incomplete college education (IncHE) or complete college education (ComHE).

Furthermore, there are also variables related to the length of service to measure job flexibility, counted in months as:

\( (initial month, final month] \) open interval, which includes the number ( closed interval, which excludes the number [

e.g., AltamiraOneThree == (1, 3] == (1, 2.9) And so on, successively, up to 140 months or more of employment duration.

As can be noticed, in the initial article, I didn't have enough maturity to conduct machine learning analyses, so in the original work, I only applied the SARIMA model.

That's it, enjoy working with time series data! 😄

Please elaborate on how Tucuruí and Altamira are often overlooked cities in the Amazon, despite hosting major projects of great importance for the country and the entire South American continent. Also, discuss how the reality in these cities primarily experiences the negative impacts of these hydroelectric power plants and barely benefits from the positive aspects of these ventures. 😔🌳🏞️

Is there anything else you'd like to add or modify? 😊

As of October 2025, the tech startup with the largest wave of layoffs from March 2020 was Amazon, with 30,000 employees laid off on October 27, 2025. Furthermore, Intel announced a layoff of 22,000 employees on April 23, 2025. Layoffs in the technology industry Overall, layoffs across all industries began in 2020 due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with tech layoffs increasing in 2022. In the first quarter of 2023 alone, more than 167 thousand employees had been fired worldwide, a record number of job cuts in a single quarter and more than all of the layoffs announced in 2022 combined, marking a harsh start to 2023 for the tech sector. From retail to finance and education, all sectors are suffering from this widespread downsizing. However, retail tech startups were hit the most, with almost 29 thousand layoffs announced as of September 2023. Most job losses happened in the United States, where tech giants like Amazon, Meta, and Google are based. Reasons behind increasing tech layoffs Layoffs in the technology sector started with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 when entire cities were in lockdown and mobility was restricted. Although restrictions loosened up in 2021, events such as the Russia-Ukraine war, the downturn in Chinese production, and rising inflation had a significant impact on the tech industry and continue to represent major concerns for tech companies. As a consequence, companies across the world have yet to overcome all economic challenges, examples of which are rising material and labor costs, as well as decreasing profit margins. To address such difficulties, tech companies have appointed business plans. For instance, in the United States, tech firms planned to focus more on consumer retention, automating software, and cutting operating expenses.

The American technology company Microsoft Corporation employed approximately ******* people in full-time positions worldwide as of its 2025 financial year. Around ** percent of Microsoft’s employees are located in the company’s home country the United States. The employees are spread out over four business units: operations (manufacturing, distribution, product support, and consulting services), research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administration. Product portfolio and business segments Microsoft sells a wide range of consumer and enterprise software, hardware, and services. The technology company had a revenue standing at around *** billion U.S. dollars in fiscal year 2025, most of which came from its productivity and business processes segment. For example, Microsoft Windows is a dominating presence in the desktop operating systems market. Microsoft U.S. tech giant Microsoft is one of the biggest technology companies in the United States next to Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and IBM. Microsoft’s market capitalization has consistently grown to over ***** trillion U.S. dollars over the period from 2014 to 2024. Today, Microsoft is one of the most valuable brands worldwide, with only Apple having a higher brand value.

The momentum of Databricks (not yet public) and Snowflake to re-write the reality of data in the Cloud truly is a sight to behold. Snowflake fell in extended trading on Wednesday after the company released third-quarter results that beat estimates but offered light product revenue guidance. However its stock price later bounced back even stronger. Go figure? A lot of hype… SNOW Up 10%, it’s really in a league of its own for growth in the Cloud. With a market cap close to $50 billion (data taken from its stock price in Excel), it’s hard to evaluate the business fundamentals away from the hype. The promise of unified data is very tantalizing indeed, yet when Databricks goes public, I don’t see Snowflake dominating like it has been in recent times. The Company’s platform enables customers to consolidate data into a single source to drive business insights, build data-driven applications and share data. Snowflake said it anticipates product revenue will be between $535 and $540 million in its fourth quarter, short of the $553 million expected by analysts estimates according to StreetAccount. Yet investors don’t seem to mind. Snowflake Inc. Shares have lost about 59.7% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's decline of -17%. The recent low was $119 in June, 2022. You can read their Earnings here. Snowflake Earnings Product revenue of $522.8 million in the third quarter, representing 67% year-over-year growth Remaining performance obligations of $3.0 billion, representing 66% year-over-year growth 7,292 total customers Net revenue retention rate of 165% 287 customers with trailing 12-month product revenue greater than $1 million Revenue for the quarter was $557.0 million, representing 67% year-over-year growth. I can see why Snowflake is so popular though. Snowflake is Wildly Popular Currently Snowflake is wildly popular as one of the best growth stocks, . Snowflake provides an end to end data warehousing solution. There is practically no limit to the amount of databases and warehouses you can create (Ofcourse, you need Snowflake credits for creating and using warehouses). It's a highly scalable solution that adheres to all the data security best practices. I do believe Databricks is the better company in the end, but time will tell. Why would this company have a market cap of $50 billion already? They have 5,000 employees, lose money at a good clip and will experience significant competition in the coming years. Net Loss is Concerning Snowflake may not respond well to the significant slowdown in spending we are likely to see in 2023. It needs to significantly reset to be tempting. It does have 287 customers with trailing 12-month product revenue greater than $1 million which is encouraging. It’s growth in the 45-50% range is still very impressive for a company of its size. After 2023 we’ll have a much better idea of the real momentum of Snowflake. Snowflake reported 34% year-over-year growth in the number of customers, reaching 7,292 in the reported quarter. The company added 28 Forbes Global 2000 customers in the reported quarter. Snowflake signed 14 new customers with $1 million in trailing 12-month product revenues in the reported quarter. The real question is how much will it slow down in 2023. The Data Cloud is still Nascent While it’s appealing to invest in first-movers like Snowflake or later Databricks, how will competition and the Data cloud continue to evolve? It’s fairly hard to predict. Snowflake is not a traditional SaaS model, it’s pay as you go consumption based. It’s not yet clear if this is the right business model for optimal profitability. 93% of revenue is consumption-based Revenue recognized only as consumption occurs In many cases, rollover of unused capacity permitted, generally on the purchase of additional capacity Contract durations increasing along with larger customer commitments Primarily billed annually in advance with some on-demand in arrears If you are uncertain of Snowflake’s growth you can visit their visual Earnings PDF. The TAM of the Data Cloud is big enough for room for a lot of different kinds of companies and competitors. In our opinion, Snowflake is in a prime position to compete with AMD, one of the best value stocks. To read more about other Cloud Computing companies, check out: Apple Fair Value Apple P/E Apple EV/EBITDA Microsoft Fair Value Microsoft P/E Microsoft EV/EBITDA Tesla Fair Value Tesla P/E Tesla EV/EBITDA Amazon Fair Value Amazon P/E Amazon EV/EBITDA Netflix Fair Value Netflix P/E Netflix EV/EBITDA

As of the company’s 2024 fiscal year, the Sony Group employed around 113 thousand people around the world. Sony has consistently decreased its total employment since around 2008 when it reported over 180 thousand workers. 2022 total represents the company’s lowest employment figure in recent history. Sony Sony is one of the largest companies in Japan and operates as a true conglomerate with major business segments ranging from music publishing, to movie production, to consumer electronics. The company earns tens of billions of dollars in revenue each year, with its most financially successful segment being Game & Network Services – the company’s PlayStation brand of gaming consoles are one of the biggest names in the industry and accounts for a significant portion of the its overall revenue. World's largest employers Despite its status as a major multinational conglomerate, Sony’s employment numbers pale in comparison to many of the world’s largest employers. Within the tech industry specifically, companies like Amazon, Accenture, IBM, and Samsung provide hundreds of thousands of jobs to people across the globe.

In 2024, Amazon was by far and away the largest company in Washington in terms of employment, with over *** million employees that year. Starbucks was the second-largest employer, followed by Deloitte Digital, with ******* and ******* employees respectively.

FAANG

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• FAANG is an acronym referring to the stocks of the five most popular and best-performing American technology companies: Meta (formerly known as Facebook), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Alphabet (formerly known as Google).

• In addition to being widely known among consumers, the five FAANG stocks are among the largest companies in the world, with a combined market capitalization of nearly $7.1 trillion as of Aug. 19, 2021.

• Some have raised concerns that the FAANG stocks may be in the midst of a bubble, whereas others argue that their growth is justified by the stellar financial and operational performance they have shown in recent years.

Each of the FAANG stocks trades on the Nasdaq exchange and is included in the S&P 500 Index. Since the S&P 500 is a broad representation of the market, the movement of the market mirrors the index's movement. As of August 2021, the FAANGs make up about 19% of the S&P 500—a staggering figure considering the S&P 500 is generally viewed as a proxy for the United States economy as a whole.

This large influence over the index means that volatility in the stock price of the FAANG stocks can have a substantial effect on the performance of the S&P 500 in general. In August 2018, for example, FAANG stocks were responsible for nearly 40% of the index’s gain from the lows reached in February 2018.

What Makes FAANG Stocks So Popular?

• The five stocks that make up the “FAANG” acronym - Meta (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX), and Alphabet (GOOG) are all well-known brands among consumers. But they are also famous for their remarkable growth in recent years, with market capitalizations ranging from $240 billion (in the case of Netflix)3 to $2.4 trillion (in the case of Apple), as of August 2021.

• From an investment perspective, these five stocks are generally praised for their stellar historical track records and clear leadership positions within their industries.

Datset Information

The dataset consists of the historical stock prices of the FAANG companies. The dataset has been cleaned and uploaded for easy use and analysis.

• Google Class A(GOOGL) consists of 4340 data records of stock prices starting from 20/08/2004 to date(11/11/2021)
• Google Class C(GOOG) consists of 1924 records of GOOG stocks starting from 28/03/2004 to date.
• Apple (AAPL) consists of 10319 records starting from 12/12/1980 to date
• Amazon(AMZN) consists of 6167 records starting from 15/5/1997 to date
• Meta(FB) consists of 2389 records from 18/05/2012 records to date
• Netflix(NFLX) consists of 4904 records from 24/05/2002 to date

Note:

You might find two different types of google stocks GOOGL and GOOG in the dataset.

• GOOGL

  • GOOGL shares are categorized as Class A shares. Class A shares are known as common shares. They give investors an ownership stake and, typically, voting rights. They are the most common type of shares.

• GOOG

  • GOOG shares are the company's Class C shares. Class C shares give stockholders an ownership stake in the company, just like Class A shares, but unlike common shares, they do not confer voting rights to shareholders.

Class A: Held by a regular investor with regular voting rights (GOOGL) Class B: Held by the founders with 10 times the voting power compared to Class A Class C: No voting rights, normally held by employees and some Class A stockholders (GOOG)

Inspiration

• Annual growth rate of FAANG companies
• Forecast the growth rate of FAANG companies in the next ten years
• Exploratory data analysis

Technology companies worldwide saw a significant reduction in their workforce in 2025. One of the most recent tech layoffs was by Amazon on October 27, 2025, with ****** employees being laid off. Layoffs impacting all global tech giants Layoffs in the global market escalated dramatically in the first quarter of 2023, when the sector saw a staggering record high of ******* employees losing their jobs. Major tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Meta, and IBM all contributed to this figure during this quarter. Amazon, in particular, conducted the most rounds of layoffs with the highest number of employees laid off among global tech giants. Industries most affected include the consumer, hardware, food, and healthcare sectors. Notable companies that have laid off a significant number of staff include Flink, Booking.com, Uber, PayPal, LinkedIn, and Peloton, among others. Overhiring led the trend, but will AI keep it going? Layoffs in the technology sector started following an overhiring spree during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, companies expanded their workforce to meet increased demand for digital services during lockdowns. However, as lockdowns ended, economic uncertainties persisted and companies reevaluated their strategies, layoffs became inevitable, resulting in a record number of ******* laid-off employees in the global tech sector by the end of 2022. Moreover, it is still unclear how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) will impact layoff trends in the tech sector. AI-driven automation can replace manual tasks, leading to workforce redundancies. Whether through chatbots handling customer inquiries or predictive algorithms optimizing supply chains, the pursuit of efficiency and cost savings may result in more tech industry layoffs in the future.

As of January 2024, several major technology companies, including Google, Amazon, Meta, and Apple, have implemented return-to-office mandates requiring employees to be in the office at least ***** days per week. Interestingly, Zoom, a company that played a significant role in facilitating work-from-home activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, has announced a return-to-office mandate of its own requiring employees to work from the office ***** per week. In contrast, X (formerly Twitter) adopted an office-only policy for their employees since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, requiring all X employees to work from the office the entire work week.

With a market capitalization of 3.12 trillion U.S. dollars as of May 2024, Microsoft was the world’s largest company that year. Rounding out the top five were some of the world’s most recognizable brands: Apple, NVIDIA, Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Amazon. Saudi Aramco led the ranking of the world's most profitable companies in 2023, with a pre-tax income of nearly 250 billion U.S. dollars. How are market value and market capitalization determined? Market value and market capitalization are two terms frequently used – and confused - when discussing the profitability and viability of companies. Strictly speaking, market capitalization (or market cap) is the worth of a company based on the total value of all their shares; an important metric when determining the comparative value of companies for trading opportunities. Accordingly, many stock exchanges such as the New York or London Stock Exchange release market capitalization data on their listed companies. On the other hand, market value technically refers to what a company is worth in a much broader context. It is determined by multiple factors, including profitability, corporate debt, and the market environment as a whole. In this sense it aims to estimate the overall value of a company, with share price only being one element. Market value is therefore useful for determining whether a company’s shares are over- or undervalued, and in arriving at a price if the company is to be sold. Such valuations are generally made on a case-by-case basis though, and not regularly reported. For this reason, market capitalization is often reported as market value. What are the top companies in the world? The answer to this question depends on the metric used. Although the largest company by market capitalization, Microsoft's global revenue did not manage to crack the top 20 companies. Rather, American multinational retailer Walmart was ranked as the largest company in the world by revenue. Walmart also had the highest number of employees in the world.

With 438 billion U.S. dollars in net sales, the United States were Amazon’s biggest market in 2024. Germany was ranked second with 41 billion U.S. dollars, ahead of the UK with 37.9 billion U.S. dollars. Biggest internet company Founded in 1994, Amazon has grown into one of the biggest e-commerce marketplaces and cloud computing platforms worldwide. In 2020, Amazon was ranked first in terms of company revenue among global publicly traded internet companies. With an annual revenue of approximately 386 billion U.S. dollars, the e-retailer ranked far ahead of closest competitors Google (181.7 billion U.S. dollars) and Alibaba (109.5 billion U.S. dollars). Amazon shopping Amazon is the leading e-retailer in the United States. In September 2021, 65 percent of Amazon customers in the United States held a membership with the company’s subscription service Amazon Prime, benefitting from free 2-day shipping, music and video streaming and exclusive offers and deals. Amazon Prime members are very engaged shoppers: a June 2021 survey found that over four in ten of them were likely to shop not just during Prime days, but also during other retail events, with 56 percent of them showing interest for Cyber Monday.

In July 2024, it was announced that Redbox would lay off 1,000 employees, the second-highest number of terminations in the media industry so far. The largest layoff announcement so far was that of Spotify, when the streaming giant declared in December 2023 that it would let 1,500 employees go, making this the biggest media industry layoff case since 2020. SiriusXM’s layoff of 475 people in March 2023 ranked fourth on that list. Spotify’s layoffs in the grand scheme of things While Spotify’s employment changes were notable in the media world, put in perspective, the numbers seem modest. For example, compared to the layoffs in the tech industry, where Amazon announced in 2022 and 2023 the termination of 18,000 employees, Spotify’s 1,500 may seem a less drastic move. However, as it is, Spotify’s number of employees already decreased by 15 percent between 2021 and 2022, so the addition of over a dozen hundred dismissals indicates larger reorganization in the company. It is a significant move on the side of the streaming giant which for years boasted growing revenues as well as an expanding workforce. Layoffs in the media - the bigger picture Other media companies did not escape the trend of layoffs that started plaguing the United States in 2022. However, over the decades the sector has experienced a few dark periods in terms of employment losses. When the economy suffers, a popular cost-cutting solution is workforce restructuring, as payroll is always one of the biggest overheads for businesses to grapple with. The spikes in media industry job losses are commonly tied to recessions (e.g. in 2001 and 2008). In 2020, the culprit was the coronavirus pandemic. The most recent layoffs, though not as radical as the previous ones, are a result of numerous mergers and acquisitions, combined with economic factors, and a general shift to digital platforms.

With over *** billion U.S. dollars in revenue, Walmart topped the ranking of the hundred largest companies globally, followed by Amazon. Walmart was also the largest company in the world based on its number of employees, with some *** million all over the world. Largest corporations based on revenue - additional information The concept of revenue itself might slightly differ depending on country or even from one company to another. It usually refers to the income resulted from normal business activities, such as the sale of goods and services to customers. Walmart The American-based multinational corporation Walmart was founded in 1962 and currently operates over ****** stores worldwide, out of which ***** are in the United States alone. In 2024, Walmart was ranked the third most valuable retail brand in the world, with a brand value of about ** billion U.S. dollars. Follow this link to get access to the top 500 companies from all industries list.

Generative AI is already employed at Amazon. In 2024, a bit more than one-third of Amazon’s sellers and brands created and optimized product listings with AI tools. Another 14 percent of them shifted from manual to AI-based production of marketing and social media content.

A work-in-progress situation

AI use at Amazon aligns with the general trend observed in the United States. In 2023, only one-third of B2C e-commerce companies fully implemented AI in their operations, while nearly half of them are still in the experimental phase. In comparison, B2B organizations were lagging, as the full implementation rate stood at 25 percent.

What holds companies back?

Implementing AI-based solutions is easier said than done, as companies face numerous challenges ranging from data security to significant business costs – the main factors retail CEOs mentioned in a survey from 2023. In the same survey, over four in ten managers and employees believed AI innovations were hindered by a lack of understanding and expertise in AI use.