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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Daniel,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Looking forward to our future correspondance,<br>
<br>
best regards,<br>
<br>
Amelia<br>
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On 01.08.2012 12:38, Daniel Riaño wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAA+TPtSXYRHqBx5Wy4We8okomjT-KHf9904mFLDZRJnPpALcGw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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.)<br>
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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%.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2012/8/1 Amelia Andersdotter <span
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<div>Pe 01.08.2012 02:52, Daniel Riaño a scris:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">2012/7/29 Amelia Andersdotter <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:teirdes@gmail.com" target="_blank">teirdes@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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More than 90% of all Europeans are employed by
medium- to big-sized corporations.<br>
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this is absolute news to me. Can you give a hint to
the source of your data? <br>
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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. <br>
<br>
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). <br>
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best regards,<br>
<br>
Amelia<br>
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