Germany: telecommunications sector employment figures 2008-2017

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.