# Something seems fishy about the news reports on tech jobs

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**Created:** [October 7, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-seems-fishy-about-the-news-reports-on-tech-jobs/700700 "2014-10-07T23:40:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-seems-fishy-about-the-news-reports-on-tech-jobs/700700/1 "2014-10-07T23:40:44Z")

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They always list the total number of people hired by tech companies. You often see"Amazon/Apple/Google hired X people this month" If you are a secretary, or doing building maintenance, you are not in a “tech job”, even if you do work for Google. A huge amount of Amazon’s employes are in distribution, and are not engineers or technicians.

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-seems-fishy-about-the-news-reports-on-tech-jobs/700700/2 "2014-10-08T00:26:40Z")

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Those companies like using contract workers for many of those position anyway, and those can be hired and fired without being reported to shareholders the same way direct his are.