{"id":101599,"date":"2017-11-13T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=101599"},"modified":"2017-11-09T16:54:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:54:47","slug":"who-is-the-worlds-biggest-employer-the-answer-might-not-be-what-you-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/11\/who-is-the-worlds-biggest-employer-the-answer-might-not-be-what-you-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is the World\u2019s Biggest Employer? The Answer Might Not Be what You Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image: REUTERS<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s often said that Indian Railways<\/a> is the largest employer of people in the world, and if not Indian Railways, then the UK\u2019s National Health Service.<\/p>\n

Neither employer can take the top spot, however, which in fact goes to the US Department of Defense, which can claim over 3.2 million employees on its roster.<\/p>\n

Indian Railways<\/a> in fact lands in the number 8 spot, with a 1.4 million-strong workforce, and the NHS is in position 5 with 1.7 million employees.<\/p>\n

Second is the People\u2019s Liberation Army (the Chinese military) with 2.3 million, and in third is the US supermarket giant Walmart, with 2.1 million workers (although 175,000 of Walmart\u2019s staff work for UK supermarket chain, Asda).<\/p>\n

McDonald\u2019s lands in 4th place with 1.9 million employees, however, as the majority of its restaurants are franchises, this figure falls to 420,000\u00a0when they are excluded.<\/p>\n

Following the NHS in 5th place is the state-run China National Petroleum Corporation with 1.6 million. Another Chinese company, The State Grid Corporation of China lands in 7th with 1.5 million.<\/p>\n

Immediately after Indian Railways<\/a> in 8th (1.4 million) is the Indian Armed Forces, with 1.3 million.<\/p>\n

Hon Hai Precision Factory (better known as the electronics manufacturer Foxconn) comes in 10th place with 1.2 million.<\/p>\n

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Henry Taylor – Social Media Producer, Digital Content and Editing; World Economic Forum.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The U.S. Military [Department of Defense] has been named the largest employer in the world with 3.2 million employees on its payroll, according to the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}