E-business employees?

[yveskleinsky]

For those of you that run a successful e-business, do you have employees? If so, what do they do? ...I know these are really basic questions, but I just can't figure out why ebay or google would need like 11,000 employees. If the site is already developed, and successful it seems like most of the work is done- especially when they aren't selling a product or a service. What am I missing?

 

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[LamboMP]

For a company like ebay:

a) technical people
b) accounting people
c) in house council
d) customer service

and the list goes on.

Depends how big your business is. Most of the time you hire employees in any business so that it relieves the strain of day to day operations. You hire people when a) your spending too much time doing a typical task .. and that time could be better spent somewhere else. b) when you feel your business has grown to a level where you cant handle everything by yourself..

It all depends on the scenario, and the business type itself.

Just look at facebook.com and check their jobs. Then you can see what types of employees an e-business has.

Hope this helps you!

 

[yveskleinsky]

Thanks for the responses! I suppose a lot of these large companies are so well run, that to someone with no grasp of what they are seeing their site is a lot like a duck on a lake...smooth sailing, but really they're paddling like crazy!