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Number of full-time Alphabet employees from 2008 to 2016, by department

Alphabet: number of full-time employees 2016, by department

This statistic shows the number of Alphabet employees between 2008 and 2016. As of that year, out of Alphabet's total number of employees, 27,169 were working in the research and development department. Up until Alphabet's creation in 2015, these figures were reported as Google employees.

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	Research and development	Sales and marketing	General and administrative	Operations
2008	7,254	8,002	3,109	1,857
2009	7,443	7,338	2,941	2,113
2010	9,508	8,778	3,346	2,768
2011	11,665	11,933	4,651	4,218
2012	19,746	15,306	6,214	12,595
2013	18,593	15,348	6,563	7,252
2014	20,832	17,621	7,510	7,637
2015	23,336	19,082	8,452	10,944
2016	27,169	20,902	9,695	14,287

	Research and development	Sales and marketing	General and administrative	Operations
2008	7,254	8,002	3,109	1,857
2009	7,443	7,338	2,941	2,113
2010	9,508	8,778	3,346	2,768
2011	11,665	11,933	4,651	4,218
2012	19,746	15,306	6,214	12,595
2013	18,593	15,348	6,563	7,252
2014	20,832	17,621	7,510	7,637
2015	23,336	19,082	8,452	10,944
2016	27,169	20,902	9,695	14,287

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This statistic shows the number of Alphabet employees between 2008 and 2016. As of that year, out of Alphabet's total number of employees, 27,169 were working in the research and development department. Up until Alphabet's creation in 2015, these figures were reported as Google employees.

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Release date: February 2017

Region: Worldwide
Survey time period: 2008 to 2016
Supplementary notes: Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate created in 2015 as the parent company of Google and several other companies previously owned by or tied to Google. Reported figures match up to previously reported Google employee headcount.

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