Amazon's employee base is growing at an impressively fast rate and it now employs more than half a million people. Just in the latest quarter, its employee figure increased 77% from 382,400 to 541,909. It had just over 300,000 employees during Q3 2016.
Many of these new employees came from other large companies Amazon has picked up. It added around 90,000 people from Whole Foods and an unknown number from Souq, an e-commerce company in the Middle East. Yet if you were to exclude the employee additions from those acquisitions, the employee base still would have risen 47%.
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