Microsoft Corporation is a major international technology company, with around ******* full-time employees in the United States in fiscal year 2024. Another ******* of Microsoft's full-time employees are located outside the company's home market bringing the total number of full-time employees worldwide to around *******. The employees of Microsoft's are distributed over four main business units - operations, product research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administration.

How many employees does Microsoft have? The American technology company Microsoft employs approximately 228,000 people in full-time positions worldwide. Around 60 percent of Microsoft’s employees are located in the company’s home country the United States. The employees are spread out over four business units: operations (manufacturing, distribution, product support, and consulting services), research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administration. Product portfolio and business segmentsMicrosoft sells a wide range of consumer and enterprise software, hardware, and services. The technology company had a revenue standing at around 245 billion U.S. dollars in fiscal year 2024, most of which came from the commercial licensing of its software and operating systems. For example, Microsoft Windows is a dominating presence in the desktop operating systems market, with a market share of around 73 percent. Microsoft U.S. tech giant Microsoft is one of the biggest technology companies in the United States next to Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and IBM. Microsoft’s market capitalization has consistently grown to over three trillion U.S. dollars over the period from 2014 to 2024. Today Microsoft is one of the most valuable brands worldwide with a brand value close to 3.4 trillion U.S. dollars, with only Apple having a higher brand value. The fiscal year end of the company is June, 30th.

Microsoft Corporation is a major international employer, with around *** thousand full-time employees worldwide in its 2024 fiscal year. The employees of Microsoft's are distributed over four main business units - Operations, product research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administration. *** thousand of Microsoft's full-time employees are located in the United States, the company's home market.

In its 2024 financial year, Microsoft generated ** billion U.S. dollars from its productivity and business processes segment and a further *** billion through its intelligent cloud segment. Thanks in part to the rapid growth in these two areas, 2024 proved to be the company’s most successful year ever in terms of annual revenue, with the total figure reaching over *** billion dollars. Microsoft Corporation Since its foundation in 1975, Microsoft has grown into one of the most successful tech firms in the world and has experienced years of continued success. In order to ensure that this growth persists, the company has added tens of thousands of employees over the past decade and invested billions into research and development. Some of Microsoft’s major business ventures include its Windows operating system, various lines of consumer electronics, software packages such as Microsoft Office, as well as newer offerings such as cloud computing capabilities. Intelligent cloud segment As Microsoft's fastest-growing business, intelligent cloud replaced the more personal computing segment in FY2020 to become the company's largest business segment. The intelligent cloud segment contains Microsoft's public, private, and hybrid server products and cloud services, such as Azure, SQL Server, etc. Together with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure is one of the most popular cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings. The intelligent cloud segment, however, does not reflect the totality of Microsoft's cloud business, as Office 365 - the company's popular cloud collaboration solution - is grouped under the productivity and business processes segment. The software giant has established a firm footing in the fast-growing cloud market.

Microsoft 365 is used by over * million companies worldwide, with over *** million customers in the United States alone using the office suite software. Office 365 is the brand name previously used by Microsoft for a group of software applications providing productivity related services to its subscribers. Office 365 applications include Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. The consumer and small business plans of Office 365 were renamed as Microsoft 365 on 21 April, 2020. Global office suite market share  An office suite is a collection of software applications (word processing, spreadsheets, database etc.) designed to be used for tasks within an organization. Worldwide market share of office suite technologies is split between Google’s G Suite and Microsoft’s Office 365, with G Suite controlling around ** percent of the global market and Office 365 holding around ** percent. This trend is similar across most worldwide regions.

The Microsoft Research Video Description Corpus (MSVD) dataset consists of about 120K sentences collected during the summer of 2010. Workers on Mechanical Turk were paid to watch a short video snippet and then summarize the action in a single sentence. The result is a set of roughly parallel descriptions of more than 2,000 video snippets. Because the workers were urged to complete the task in the language of their choice, both paraphrase and bilingual alternations are captured in the data.

OpenPack is an open-access logistics dataset for human activity recognition, which contains human movement and package information from 16 subjects in four scenarios. Human movement information is subdivided into three types of data, acceleration, physiological, and depth-sensing. The package information includes the size and number of items included in each packaging job. In the "Humanware laboratory" at IST Osaka University, with the supervision of industrial engineers, an experiment to mimic logistic center labor was designed. 12 workers with previous packaging experience and 4 without experience performed a set of packaging tasks according to an instruction manual from a real-life logistics center. During the different scenarios, subjects were recorded while performing packing operations using Lidar, Kinect, and Realsense depth sensors while wearing 4 ATR IMU devices and 2 Empatica E4 wearable sensors. Besides sensor data, this dataset contains timestamp information collected from the hand terminal used to register product, packet, and address label codes as well as package details that can be useful to relate operations to specific packages. The 4 different scenarios include; sequential packing, worker-decided sequence changes, pre-ordered item packing, and time-sensitive stressors. Each of the subjects performed 20 packing jobs in 5 work sessions for a total of 100 packing jobs. 53+ hours of packaging operations have been labeled into 10 global operation classes and 16 sub-action classes for this dataset. Action classes are not unique to each operation but may only appear in one or two operations. You can find information on how to use this dataset at: https://open-pack.github.io/. For details on how this dataset was collected please check the following publication "OpenPack: A Large-Scale Dataset for Recognizing Packaging Works in IoT-Enabled Logistic Environments" 10.1109/PerCom59722.2024.10494448. Full Dataset In this repository, the data and label files are contained in separate files for each worker. Each worker's file contains; IMU, E4, 2d keypoint, 3d keypoint, annotation, and system-related data. Preprocessed Dataset (IMU with operation and action Labels) We have received many comments that it was difficult to combine multiple workers' IMU and annotation data. Therefore, we have created several CSV files containing the four IMU's sensor data and the operation labels in a single file. These files are now included as "imu-with-operation-action-labels.zip". Preprocessed Dataset (Kinect 2D and 3D keypoint data with operation and action Labels) We have received several requests for a preprocessed dataset containing only specific types of keypoint data with its assigned operation and action labels. Two new preprocessed files have been added for 2D and 3D keypoint data extracted from the frontal view Kinect camera. These files are: "kinect-2d-kpt-with-operation-action-labels.zip", and "kinect-3d-kpt-with-operation-action-labels.zip". Work is continuously being done to update and improve this dataset. When downloading and using this dataset please verify that the version is up to date with the latest release. The latest release [1.1.0] was uploaded on 24/04/2024. Changes LOG: v1.0.0: Add tutorial preprocessed dataset for IMU data with operation labels. v1.1.0: Update preprocessed datasets. (Include Kinect 2d and 3d keypoint data with Operation and action labels) We hosted an activity recognition competition using this dataset (OpenPack v0.3.x) awarded at a PerCom 2023 Workshop! The task was very simple: Recognize 10 work operations from the OpenPack dataset. You can refer to this website for coding materials relevant to this dataset. https://open-pack.github.io/challenge2022 Funding: JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP21H05299, and JP21J10059, and JST ACT-X JPMJAX200T

In 2024, Nokia had approximately ****** employees situated across the globe.Returning to Profitability The Finnish company has transitioned from producing cellular devices to network equipment, a shift that is accompanied by ongoing cost-saving initiatives. One of Nokia’s cost-cutting strategies is layoffs, including 350 jobs in its home country of Finland, out of the **** employees based there. The company hopes to save 700 million euros in annual costs over 2019 and 2020. In total Nokia currently spends more than *** billion euros annually on salaries and wages. Smartphone manufacturer moves to 5G Nokia has undergone several directional changes throughout the last few decades. Once a successful phone manufacturer in the early 2000s, the company struggled with increasingly overwhelming competition from Apple and Samsung. One reason for Nokia’s declining share within the mobile phone market was remaining committed to their own mobile operating system Symbian (OS) for too long before switching to Google’s Android OS. After an unsuccessful partnership with Microsoft in 2013 - Nokia sold its mobile and devices segment to Microsoft the following year - the company turned its focus to network infrastructure. In recent years, Nokia has invested a lot into the research and development of 5G cellular network

Microsoft's global revenue grew from fiscal year 2022 to 2024, increasing by about ***** percent year-on-year and reaching over *** billion U.S. dollars. This marks another record-setting year for the software giant in terms of sales revenue. Microsoft and Bill Gates Microsoft has become a constant figure among the world’s most valuable brands. Its founder Bill Gates is presently, and perhaps unsurprisingly, one of the richest men in the United States and among the richest billionaires worldwide, among other well-known figures such as Warren Buffet, Carlos Slim Helu, and Larry Ellison. In addition to his status as an entrepreneur, Bill Gates is also known for his philanthropy. In 2000, together with his wife, they created the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation has donated a considerable amount of money, in particular in the area of research and development of treatments for neglected diseases. While Bill Gates no longer heads the Microsoft Corporation, the company itself continues to show strong results around the world, with versions of its most well-known product, the Windows operating system, consistently leading the home operating system market. The Microsoft Office suite also remains the most widely used office software around the world, with few comparable competitors in sight. The fiscal year-end of the company is June, 30th.

In 2024, Epic Games had an estimated 4,358 employees worldwide, which represents a significant reduction from 2022 after a round of layoffs in September 2023. These layoffs affected 830 employees, which translated to about 16 percent of Epic’s workforce. How many people work on Fortnite? While it is hard to say how many of Epic Games’ employees work on the battle royale hit, it is safe to say that it is a significant number of employees. Most of the video game publisher and software developer's employees were working in the gaming segment, accounting for nearly 900 employees in 2019 when the company last revealed the figures publicly. For scale, these figures pale compared to Ubisoft, the gaming industry leader based on workforce. The French-headquartered company currently employs about 20,000 people. Video game industry layoffs The gaming company has also been affected by the wider tech industry layoffs that started rolling in at the beginning of 2023. Although the exact figures remain unclear, it is estimated that more than 11,000 video game industry workers were laid off in 2023. Additionally, 2024 is not shaping up to be much kinder, as already nearly 6,000 game developers lost their jobs during industry layoffs until the end of January.

Epic Games’ layoff of 830 employees is one of the largest of the 2023-24 industry shakeup , ranking fourth behind Unity Technologies (2,900 employees laid off in 3 rounds so far), Microsoft Gaming (close to 2,000 layoffs), Electronic Arts, and Sony Interactive Entertainment (both other 1,000 game devs laid off).

With a market capitalization of 3.12 trillion U.S. dollars as of May 2024, Microsoft was the world’s largest company that year. Rounding out the top five were some of the world’s most recognizable brands: Apple, NVIDIA, Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Amazon. Saudi Aramco led the ranking of the world's most profitable companies in 2023, with a pre-tax income of nearly 250 billion U.S. dollars. How are market value and market capitalization determined? Market value and market capitalization are two terms frequently used – and confused - when discussing the profitability and viability of companies. Strictly speaking, market capitalization (or market cap) is the worth of a company based on the total value of all their shares; an important metric when determining the comparative value of companies for trading opportunities. Accordingly, many stock exchanges such as the New York or London Stock Exchange release market capitalization data on their listed companies. On the other hand, market value technically refers to what a company is worth in a much broader context. It is determined by multiple factors, including profitability, corporate debt, and the market environment as a whole. In this sense it aims to estimate the overall value of a company, with share price only being one element. Market value is therefore useful for determining whether a company’s shares are over- or undervalued, and in arriving at a price if the company is to be sold. Such valuations are generally made on a case-by-case basis though, and not regularly reported. For this reason, market capitalization is often reported as market value. What are the top companies in the world? The answer to this question depends on the metric used. Although the largest company by market capitalization, Microsoft's global revenue did not manage to crack the top 20 companies. Rather, American multinational retailer Walmart was ranked as the largest company in the world by revenue. Walmart also had the highest number of employees in the world.

As of January 2024, the tech startup with the most layoffs was Amazon, with over 27 thousand layoffs, across five separate rounds of layoffs. It was followed by Meta and Google with around 21 thousand and 12 thousand job cuts announced respectively.

Layoffs in in the technology industry

Overall, layoffs across all industries began in 2020 due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with tech layoffs increasing in 2022. In the first quarter of 2023 alone, more than 167 thousand employees had been fired worldwide, a record number of job cuts in a single quarter and more than all of the layoffs announced in 2022 combined, marking a harsh start to of 2023 for the tech sector. From retail to finance and education, all sectors are suffering from this widespread downsizing. However, retail tech startups were hit the most, with almost 29 thousand layoffs announced as of September 2023. Most job losses happened in the United States, where tech giants like Amazon, Meta, and Google are based.

Reasons behind increasing tech layoffs

Layoffs in the technology sector started with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 when entire cities were in lockdown and mobility was restricted. Although restrictions loosened up in 2021, events such as the Russia-Ukraine war, the downturn in Chinese production, and rising inflation had a significant impact on the tech industry and continue to represent major concerns for tech companies. As a consequence, companies across the world have yet to overcome all economic challenges, examples of which are rising material and labor costs, as well as decreasing profit margins. To address such difficulties, tech companies have appointed business plans. For instance, in the United States, tech firms planned to focus more on consumer retention, automating software, and cutting operating expenses.

Microsoft's Windows was the dominant desktop operating system (OS) worldwide as of March 2025, with a market share of around ** percent. Apple’s Mac operating system has gained market share over the years, growing to command around a fifth of the market. Linux and Google's Chrome OS have retained small but stable market shares in recent years. Different versions of Microsoft Windows From its initial release in 1985, Microsoft Windows has gone through endless mutations. Notable versions include Windows 95, Windows XP, and Windows 7. Windows 11 is the newest addition to the family, being able to run on PCs, tablets and embedded devices. In 2022, approximately ** million PCs were shipped with Windows operating systems installed. Apple’s Mac operating system With an equally long history, Apple’s Mac operating system (macOS, previously Mac OS X and OS X) has also evolved through numerous releases. MacOS Ventura is the nineteenth release of macOS. A older version of macOS, Catalina, is currently the most popular macOS, now run on **** percent of Apple computers as of January 2023. macOS runs on Apple’s Mac computers, including the MacBook, which is Apple’s laptop PC product including the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, and the iMac – Apple’s desktop computer.

As of May 23, 2025, Microsoft was the leading tech company by market capitalization globally at 3.38 trillion U.S. dollars. Nvidia ranked second at 3.24 trillion U.S. dollars. Tech company stocks were impacted through 2025 as a result of various global tariff threats by the United States government. Apple among the leaders Since its foundation in a Californian garage in 1976, Apple has expanded massively, becoming one of the most valuable companies in the world. The company started its origins in the PC industry with the Macintosh, but soon entered other segments of the consumer electronics market. Today, the iPhone is the most popular Apple product, although Mac, iPad, wearables, and services also contribute to its high revenues. Aiming at innovation, Apple invests every year in research and development, spanning a wide array of technologies from AI through to extended reality. Nvidia's immense growth With a focus that began with origins in gaming, Nvidia's business strategy has been transformed by demand from data centers that sit at the heart of the AI boom. The company's chips have been favored to support in the training and running of a range of large language models, most notably in the development of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

As of early 2025, LinkedIn had an audience reach of *** million users in the *************. The country was by far the leading market of the professional job networking service, with runner-up India having an audience of *** million. LinkedIn: the company Launched in 2003, LinkedIn is a professional networking service where jobseekers can post their CVs, and employers or recruiters can post job ads and search for prospective candidates. In December 2016, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. In 2020, the platform generated over ***** billion U.S. dollars in revenue. Despite its great success, the company has not always seen positive numbers only, and in 2018, LinkedIn reported an operating loss of *** million U.S. dollars. LinkedIn marketing Greater exposure, lead generation and increased thought leadership are all key benefits of social media marketing, and LinkedIn is a popular marketing tool in the B2B segment. Whereas the company predominantly generates revenue by selling access to member information to professional parties, LinkedIn is the second-most popular social media platform used by B2B marketers, ranking only behind Facebook.

In 2025, according to the source's ranking, Apple was the most valuable brand in the world. The technology giant had an estimated brand value of about 574.5 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Microsoft that was worth 461.1 billion dollars. The global dominance of technology companies   A closer look at the 2024 brand ranking reveals that U.S. tech brands once again dominated the top-10 list. As a case in point, the business technology and services platforms industry was the highest-valued sector worldwide among the 100 most valuable brands in 2023. Meanwhile, consumer technology and services platforms ranked second on the list. The importance of brand value Brand value, not to be mistaken with brand equity, is a term used in the marketing industry to describe the value of brands. The term is based on the implication that products with a well-known brand name can generate more money than those with a less well-known name. Strong brands enhance business performance primarily through their influence on three key stakeholder groups: customers, employees, and investors. They influence customer choice and create loyalty; attract, retain, and motivate talent; and lower the cost of financing for the companies.

In 2024, Meta Platforms generated a revenue of over 164 billion U.S. dollars, up from 134 billion USD in 2023. The majority of Meta’s profits come from its advertising revenue.Meta’s total Family of Apps revenue for 2022 amounted to 114 billion U.S. dollars. Additionally, Meta’s Reality Labs, the company’s VR division, generated around 2.1 billion dollars. Meta’s marketing expenditure for 2022 amounted to just over 15 billion U.S. dollars, up from 14 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. Increasing audience base despite privacy misgivings Meta’s user numbers have continued to grow steadily throughout past years. In the fourth quarter of 2022, there was a total of 3.74 billion worldwide users across all of Meta’s platforms. For this same time frame, the company recorded 407 million monthly active users across Europe. Downloads of Meta’s app Oculus, for which virtual reality headsets are required, increased greatly from 2020 to 2021, reaching a total of 10.62 million downloads by the end of last year. Up until 2021, downloads had grown in a steady manner but from 2020 to 2021, they more than doubled.User numbers have increased despite data security issues and past controversy such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018. There remains skepticism surrounding the idea of the metaverse in which Meta aims to immerse itself. Of surveyed adults in the United States, the majority said that they were concerned about their privacy if Meta were to succeed in creating the metaverse.

Two-thirds of advisory services report using at least one videoconferencing tool in 2022. Videoconferencing software saw a market penetration of about ** percent in 2024. Zoom is the leading videoconferencing software with a market share of about ** percent.