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. Meta (formerly Facebook Inc.) had a total of 71,970 full-time employees whereas Alphabet had 156,500 full-time workers during the same period.
Number of employees of leading internet companies worldwide from 2014 to 2021
* 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.
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