Largest UK companies based on employees 2020

Compass Group had by far the highest amount of global employees of all companies based in the United Kingdom in 2020, at approximately 596 thousand employees. Tesco had the second highest number of employees at 293.96 thousand, followed by HSBC Holdings which had 235.35 thousand employees.

Largest companies based in the United Kingdom on number of employees worldwide in 2020 (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Number of employees worldwide (in 1,000s)
Compass Group	595.45
Tesco	293.96
HSBC Holdings	235.35
Unilever	149.69
J. Sainsbury	111.9
BT Group	105.3
GlaxoSmithKline	99.44
Vodafone Group	95.22
Barclays	80.8
Linde	79.89
BP	72.5
International Airlines Group	66.03
Lloyds Banking Group	63
Anglo American	63
British American Tobacco	59.99
Rio Tinto Group	46.01
Aviva	31.18
Centrica	29.15
Prudential	18.13
Legal & General Group	8.54

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2021

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Europe

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2020

Supplementary notes

The figure shown is either a fiscal year-end or yearly average number, as published by the company. Where the breakdown between full- and part-time employees is supplied, a part-time employee is counted as one half of a full-time employee.

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