I still don't get why companies like Uber have 34000 employees, Canva 12000, LinkedIn 10000, Dropbox 2000, and so on, not even talking about Oracle with their 140000 or Salesforce with 80000
https://docs.oracle.com/en/browseall.html
So when you dig in you can easily see what all those people work on.
Whereas, Uber is basically two services (ride sharing and food delivery). So there it's a bit harder to understand. Of course they're in lots of markets and have a huge human support surface area because of all the drivers and riders. Probably most of those employees aren't working on the products.
Because it's a legit question, like if a companye can lay off thousands of people and still run their service, what were they all doing?
The amount of people working on regulation, compliance and other non-revenue generating responsibilities increases substantially.
I work with regulations because I'm in charge of IT at a small but busy healthcare provider. We're like 3 people who handle ISO certification and NIST compliance, on the side.