[pp.int.general] Towards a Pirate Policy on Environmental Issues

[Amelia Andersdotter]

Dear Daniel,

A large company is any company with more than 250 employees, so this 
category includes many more companies than the top 50 list. Companies 
with less than 250 employees are medium-sized or small. The limit for a 
microsmal enterprise is at 10 employees or less. Of course, we can argue 
about whether these limit is good, or arbitrary - in many situations I 
feel a more adequate measure of company size is turnover, also because 
this measure more adequately describes the relative influence of the 
company on the economy and therefore also the politics. It is anyway an 
established measure somewhere, since 2003, also by the EUropean 
Commission and in a European context. The exact investigation 
establishing these limits evade me at this time, and I apologize for this.

It may be that you wish to re-evaluate your position based on this, or 
not. If not, then it would be very useful if part of your re-evaluation 
included the assessment of turnover in terms of size and economic impact 
of a company on society in the data aggregation and processing 
industries. It will be very helpful to my work in the European 
Parliament on the Data Protection Regulation. However, I will need, in 
order for it to have impact on my work, for it to be based on other 
things than assumptions and speculation, because unfortunately this is 
one of the methods most commonly applied to weed out random opinionation 
from careful after-thought in my day-to-day work environment.

Looking forward to our future correspondance,

best regards,

Amelia

On 01.08.2012 12:38, Daniel Riaño wrote:
> Thanks for your answer, Amelia. It may be the case that your source 
> was biased and the people who produced the report was trying to spread 
> the feeling that large corporations are collectively providing the 
> majority of the jobs worldwide. But I don't think this is so (it is 
> certainly not so in Spain, where SMEs are, by large, the responsibles 
> of the majority of jobs, and they depend crucially in new information 
> technologies for their survival.)
>
> The largest employer in the world, by far, is Wall-Mart [I'm using 
> Fortune Magazine data here, and I am making calculations using an 
> estimation of a labour force worldwide of about 3.230 million people 
> for a population of 7.000 million people]. WallMart employs (some 
> would say that's only a way of speaking) 2.200.000 workers. That's a 
> huge number, but it's only a 0,07% of the labour force worldwide. The 
> next largest employer (China national petroleum) employs just 
> 1.700.000 workers (ca. 0,05 of labour force worldwide) . The 50th 
> largest corporation by number of employees is Berkshire (270K 
> employees, a 0,008% of the total). The biggest corporation by revenue 
> in 2011 (Royal Dutch Shell) employs 90K people (about the same as the 
> second largest), that is a 0,002%.
>
>
>
>
>
> 2012/8/1 Amelia Andersdotter <teirdes at gmail.com 
> <mailto:teirdes at gmail.com>>
>
>     Pe 01.08.2012 02:52, Daniel Riaño a scris:
>>     2012/7/29 Amelia Andersdotter <teirdes at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:teirdes at gmail.com>>
>>
>>         More than 90% of all Europeans are employed by medium- to
>>         big-sized corporations.
>>
>>
>>     this is absolute news to me. Can you give a hint to the source of
>>     your data?
>>
>
>     I suppose I have read it in a Commission study somewhere. I was
>     also surprised when I read it since the general buzz is that
>     Europe is endowed with exceptionally many SMEs (about 90% of all
>     our enterprises are SMEs). It is not my area of expertise so I
>     can't easily relocate the same study - I hope you provide me with
>     leniency for this.
>
>     However, it also makes sense, since medium-sized and larger
>     companies employ more people - otherwise they would by definition
>     not be medium-sized or larger companies, since the criteria
>     normally used for defining such companies in the type of study
>     relevant to cite such numbers is by number of employees, rather
>     than by turn-over (which personally, I would find to be a better
>     and more adequate measure of company size any day).
>
>     best regards,
>
>     Amelia
>
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