I knew that Apple started building its own chip design team in 2009, but figured it had to be a few hundred people at most, not 5percentt of Apple's non-retail workforce.
She has over 16 years' experience of recruiting within the retail industry, including workforce planning, talent attraction and employer branding.
Housed in the hollowed out shell of what was once a faceless retail unit, the workforce behind Birthdays have turned the premises into a kind of dream-chamber-cum-fun-factory that will be the arena for all your best nights out this summer and beyond.
In total, 13% of the workforce is in retail, 12% in government, 12% in manufacturing, 11% in services, 8% in accommodations and food services, 8% in agriculture, 7% in construction, 7% working for local utilities, 6% in finance, insurance, and real estate, and 6% in other trades.
The report notes that "few large platform workforces in manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade, healthcare, or financial services".
To remind Mr Osborne of the potential scale of that disaster, Mr Lewis pointed out that retailers contribute more than 5 per cent of GDP, while employing 3 million people; he added that nearly 10 per cent of the whole workforce is in retailing, in one way or another.
Yesterday, we posted a slide show focussing on the inroads that women have made in the workforce, particularly in the retail sector, in a country where the majority of jobs go to men.
Gateway was forced to lay off 12% of its workforce and closed some retail outlets during the quarter.
"Since we moved from something that would cover the entire workforce to more formula retail chains, we haven't seen big resistance from the employer community," she said.
In the 10 poorest metro areas, eight exceed that number by a wide margin, including Hot Springs, Arkansas, where 17.3percentt of its workforce is employed in retail.
