Workforce of leading global online companies 2014-2023

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J. Clement,
Feb 29, 2024
In 2023, Amazon.com was the top-ranked internet company based on number of employees. The e-commerce giant reported a workforce of more than 1.52 million employees. Amazon has consistently topped the ranking as the online company with the biggest workforce, but the global COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap as e-commerce has boomed since. During the same period, Meta (formerly Facebook Inc.) had a total of 67,317 full-time employees. Additionally, Google's parent company Alphabet had 182,502 full-time workers in 2023.

Number of employees of leading internet companies worldwide from 2014 to 2023

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February 2024

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

year-end 2014 to 2023

Supplementary notes

In April 2022, Twitter, now known as X, was acquired by Elon Musk and taken private. The company no longer reports employee figures.

In July 2015, PayPal split from eBay to become an independent company. There are no separate figures regarding PayPal employees in 2014.

Yahoo was acquired by Verizon Communications in June 2017.

LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft in December 2016. Figures from 2019 onwards are Statista estimates.

Alibaba FY 2023 ended March 31, 2023.

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