> Jokes aside, how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need?
There never is an excess amount of workers (sure, there probably are 4-5 exceptions). What happens is that they need those employees, but instead are going to demand that the employees that are left pick up the slack. Which they will because they need a roof over their head.
Those companies are merely cutting costs, they don't actually have any excess employee.
It's not black and white like this. There is such a thing as having to many employees and such a thing as having too little. I think realistically, most of the time, it's a mix.
There never is an excess amount of workers (sure, there probably are 4-5 exceptions). What happens is that they need those employees, but instead are going to demand that the employees that are left pick up the slack. Which they will because they need a roof over their head.
Those companies are merely cutting costs, they don't actually have any excess employee.