Major Companies Total Work Hours
Delivered February 3, 2020. Contributor: Tarik T.
Goals
To find out the number of total human hours spent working at some of the world's largest companies.
Early Findings
Amazon
- Created in 1994.
- It had 11 employees in 1995.
- The company has grown to 614 employees in 1997.
- In 1998, it reached 2,100 employees.
- Two years later, in 200, Amazon had a total staff of 9,000 workers.
- In 2001, this number reached 7,800 employees.
- In 2002, due to the dot-com bullble crash, the number of employees decreased to 7,500.
- In 2005, it grew again to 12,000 employees.
- Two years later, the Amazon staff reached 17,000 employees.
- It then jumped from 24,300 to 56,200 between 2009 and 2011.
- By 2013, it passed the 100,000 mark with 117,300 workers.
- It kept growing year by year with 154,100 in 2014, 230,800 in 2015 and 566,000 in 2017.
- Finally, Amazon had 613,300 employees in 2018.
Facebook
- Created in 2004.
- In 2004-2005, Facebook had 20 employees.
- In 2011, the company had 3,200 employees.
- In 2012, it had 4,619.
- In 2013, it reached a staff of 6,337.
- Facebook had 9,199 employees in 2014 and 12,691 in 2015.
- Its staff has then grown from 17,084 in 2016 to 25,105 in 2017 and 35,587 in 2018.
- Finally, in 2019,the company employed 44,942 workers.
Google
- Created in 1998.
- 2007: 16,805 employees
- 2008: 20,222 employees
- 2009: 19,835 workers
- 2010: 24,400 employees
- 2011: 32,467 employees
- 2012: 53,861 employees
- 2013: 47,756 employees
- 2014: 53,600 workers
- 2015: 61,814 employees
- 2016: 72,053 employees
- 2017: 88,110 employees
- 2018: 98,771 employees
Apple
Tesla
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