It’s an odd statistic, yes, but also an interesting one! The Financial Times have looked at some of the world’s top-earning companies, and worked out how much cash each generates per capita (ie divide the total profit by the total number of employees). Each worker at money grubbers Goldman Sachs, for example, is worth $1.24 million. Google employees can “only” manage $626,000. But Nintendo employees? Every one of the 3000 workers at Nintendo Towers generates $1.6 million. Yes, even the tea lady.
Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman [Financial Times, via Develop]
Intel Miner
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 10:55 PMAnd yet they can pump out the same NintenShit year after year? thank god I jumped ship when the 64 was in decline…
Bob
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 12:13 AMThat’s mind-boggling. I knew I should have asked for a raise when I used to work at the local GameStop pushing Super Nintentdo and N64 machines.
Free Xbox 360
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 2:00 AMWow that’s crazy. They should give those employees a raise!
Mahalakshmi
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 4:39 AMNintendo is more productive than Goldman Sachs which makes me infer the adults are going bankrupt feeding their kids hobbies.
design
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 12:08 PMSmells like some of that asian efficiency us Americans keep hearin’ about.
RB
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM@Intel: “jumped ship” ? Is your room so small you can only fit ONE console? :P