PayPal employed about 23,800 people at the end of 2025, down from roughly 24,400 a year earlier, according to its annual filings.
Author: Francesco Riganese
Francesco Riganese
Francesco Riganese edits Makerstations. He reads every desk setup readers send in, talks with the makers behind the ones we feature, and writes the site’s reports on jobs, pay and the companies people work for. If you have a setup to share or spot something we got wrong, he’d like to hear from you.
Italy had 24.35 million people employed in August 2026, up 291,000 year over year. The unemployment rate rose to 6.2%, according to ISTAT’s provisional estimate.
Snap Inc. had 4,723 full-time employees as of June 30, 2026, down from 5,381 three months earlier. The workforce fell by 658 employees during the quarter.
Singapore Airlines, DBS and JPMorgan Chase each rank No. 1 on a different 2026 list of the best companies to work for in Singapore.
Cisco had about 82,400 employees as of July 25, 2026, down from 86,200 a year earlier, while fiscal 2026 revenue reached $63.3 billion.
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) revised second-quarter 2026 job growth from an 8,000-job loss to a 15,000-job gain on September 23.
Gamification started as a marketing word and quietly became infrastructure. Points, streaks, levels and leaderboards now sit underneath activities that have nothing to do with play, and most people interact with several of these systems daily without registering any of them as games. Some of the conversions are inspired. Some are transparent attempts to make a chore feel like an achievement. All of them work on the same handful of mechanics, which is the interesting part. Here are eight ordinary things that somebody decided to score. 1. Walking to the Shops Step counting turned locomotion into a metric, and the…
A monitor’s refresh rate is the number of times per second it draws a new image. At 60Hz that happens every 16.7 milliseconds; at 144Hz, roughly every 6.9 milliseconds; at 240Hz, about every 4.2. Those gaps sound too small to matter, yet most people who upgrade notice the difference within seconds of moving the mouse. The interesting part is working out which improvements are real, which are subtle, and which depend on everything else on the desk. The short version is that a faster panel changes three things: how smooth motion looks, how blurry moving objects appear, and how quickly…
Explore Discord employee statistics for 2026, including headcount estimates, January 2024 layoffs, employee salaries, regional workforce data, benefits, job postings, ratings, leadership changes, and IPO-era workforce developments.
Mitsui & Co. scored 4.83 out of 5 in OpenWork’s 2026 employee reviews, while Disco ranked first among large employers in Great Place To Work Japan’s 2026 list.