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		soofaloofa on Dec 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to be like Steve Ballmer Microsoft now employs 118,584 people with many of them working in research laboratories. Had Gates pursued academia he could have at best accomplished a fraction of what he has.

Polyphonie on Dec 5, 2015 [–]

That's 118,584 - 7,800 employees that were laid off in July or 2015 (the 118K number was from March 2015).

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