Workforce of leading online companies 2022

In 2022, Amazon.com was the top-ranked internet company based on number of employees. The e-commerce giant reported a workforce of more than 1.54 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 86,482 full-time employees. Additionally, Google's parent company Alphabet had 190,234 full-time workers in 2022.

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Release date

August 2023

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Worldwide

Survey time period

year-end 2014 to 2022

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.

Alibaba FY 2023 ended March 31, 2023.

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