Germany: telecommunications sector employment 2020

The number of employees in the telecommunications industry in Germany decreased by 10,761 employees (-6.36 percent) in 2020 in comparison to the previous year. Nevertheless, the last two years in this industry recorded a significant higher number of employees than the preceding years.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the telecommunications sector in Germany from 2011 to 2020

Characteristic	Number of employees
2020	158,508
2019	169,269
2018b	176,823
2017	101,020
2016	112,846
2015	110,905
2014	111,630
2013	103,046
2012	102,614
2011	116,629

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Release date

March 2023

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Germany

Survey time period

2011 to 2020

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work.
Data coverage corresponds to Section J61 of NACE Rev. 2.

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