KyeeLim t1_jdpq1ei wrote on March 26, 2023 at 5:32 AM Reply to ELI5 How does a “website” have so many employees? by [deleted] Mainly because there's not only just development team in a "website". If a company wants to have this application be connected to a server, a server cost money to buy/host and run, so now we need account department. Hosting a service 24/7 would means we would need people to maintain the server so it can stay up for 99% of the times. Now we need our source of income for paying our staff, We would need someone to deal with advertisement and such. Alright, we want to make sure our "website" to not get sued by someone for stupid reason, we would have to hire a legal team to deal with that. What if someone encounter some issue while using our services, our development team are way too busy for that, customer support it is. Hire new employees, too busy to be dealt by anyone, HR department it is. Our "website" will store our user's sensitive data, better to hire a dedicated security department for that. and there's more, all of these can't just simply be dealt by just 3 to 10 people. Permalink 5
KyeeLim t1_jdpq1ei wrote
Reply to ELI5 How does a “website” have so many employees? by [deleted]
Mainly because there's not only just development team in a "website".
If a company wants to have this application be connected to a server, a server cost money to buy/host and run, so now we need account department.
Hosting a service 24/7 would means we would need people to maintain the server so it can stay up for 99% of the times.
Now we need our source of income for paying our staff, We would need someone to deal with advertisement and such.
Alright, we want to make sure our "website" to not get sued by someone for stupid reason, we would have to hire a legal team to deal with that.
What if someone encounter some issue while using our services, our development team are way too busy for that, customer support it is.
Hire new employees, too busy to be dealt by anyone, HR department it is.
Our "website" will store our user's sensitive data, better to hire a dedicated security department for that.
and there's more, all of these can't just simply be dealt by just 3 to 10 people.