That's fine. The question the poster raises is how come they have 500 over the number of people they need, if the amount of work wasn't reduced.
As a proxy for amount of work, we can take Dropbox revenue: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/dbx/revenue/
If those people were needed but now aren't, does this mean Dropbox plans to do less "units of work" and decrease its revenue?
I think a more convincing argument is they overhired even when taking your argument into account.
That's fine. The question the poster raises is how come they have 500 over the number of people they need, if the amount of work wasn't reduced.
As a proxy for amount of work, we can take Dropbox revenue: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/dbx/revenue/
If those people were needed but now aren't, does this mean Dropbox plans to do less "units of work" and decrease its revenue?
I think a more convincing argument is they overhired even when taking your argument into account.