Workforce of leading online companies 2022

In 2021, Amazon.com was the top-ranked internet company based on number of employees. The e-commerce giant reported a workforce of more than 1.6 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 71,970 full-time employees. Additionally, Google's parent company Alphabet had 190,234 full-time workers in 2022.

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Release date

February 2023

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Worldwide

Survey time period

year-end 2014 to 2022

Supplementary notes

* 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.

Alibaba FY 2020 ended March 31, 2020.

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