It's the website of an professor of marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business. It's a passage from an article comparing America's involvement in/approach to/rationale behind/economic impact of WWII, vs America's involvement in/approach to/rationale behind/economic impact of Covid.
I thought it made some interesting points, but then I got distracted. :)
One interesting date point it had was that there are about 129 million US households, and about half of them households have an occupant which works for a company that employs at least 2500 people. So, the first reason why it's interesting is that if I work for a company that employs 10,000 people, there are 9,999 other households that have a person who work for a company that employs 10,000 people as well. (Presuming that multiple people from the same household don't work for the same employer.)
But at the same time--- there are 2.1M people employed by the federal government. So that's an automatic 2.1M households employed by the federal government. There are 142.5M civilians employed by the military. Walmart employs 1.5M.
But ultimately, in order to be classified as large, a company has to only employ 500 people.
As of 2010, there are about 16,000 companies that qualify as "large" (aka 500 people+), let alone your giant behemoths like Apple/Microsoft/Exxon/Walmart/Uncle Sam, which employ 2500+.
Out of those 16,000 companies of 500+, there are 34 metropolitan areas that have at least 100 of them. NYC is at the head of the list, with 1271 large businesses of over 500 people, followed by LA (717), Chicago (648), and so on.
Megabusinesses employ 2500+. As of 2010, there were 1,346 of them in the US. (And as of 2010, there were only three cities that had more than 50 of them in one place: NYC (134), LA (81), and Chicago (58).)
So--- with so relatively few companies that operate at the 2500+ employee scale, especially at the national level, despite the number of people who are employed by them, I found it interesting that the writer chose to develop his ideas of megabusinesses adopting their employees' households for two-week periods... and I also thought it was an interesting illustration of his NYC-centric bias in play. (Because with so few megabusinesses in play in the first place, who except someone from NYC/LA/Chicago would spend a chunk of their blog post what-iffing about having Walmart/FedEx/UPS/Amazon/GE/PepsiCo/AT&T/Starbucks be responsible for 2 weeks' worth of groceries in each of their employees' pantries, providing them with broadband, giving them smartphones with apps, scheduling stuff for their kids, and making sure each household's goodies come only if they wear their masks like good children. :P
I liked him better when he was talking about the WWII stuff, before he veered off on that tangent. :)
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