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Inside the City-Sized Employer: What 1.6M Workers Feels Like
Episode 4550
Published 1 week, 5 days ago
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Ever wondered what it's like to work for an organization so large its workforce rivals the population of a city? This episode digs into the record books to find the largest employer in history — Indian Railways at 1.6 million workers — and then explores what daily life is actually like inside these mega-organizations. We unpack the math that makes bureaucracy unavoidable, why the "small cog" framing is misleading, and whether the appeal of institutional stability is smarter than the startup world makes it feel.