In Europe, small companies tend to be exempted. E.g. no GDPR data protection officer required when less than 250 people in the company. 10, 50 and 100 are also personnel counts seen on a regular base.

In practice, a lot of companies stop growing just below the limit, and e.g. split in parts that have supplier relations to each other. No, we don't have 2000 employees. We are a group of 200 companies, owned by the same owners, and having 10 employees each.