Meta Platforms had 74,067 full-time employees as of December 2024, down from 67317 people in 2023. As of December 2023, more than 262,000 employees at tech companies worldwide were laid off throughout the year across more than one thousand companies. Facebook: how it all beganIn 2003, a sophomore at named Mark Zuckerberg hacked into protected areas of the university's computer network in order to find photos of other students. He then would pair two of them next to each other on a program called “Facemash” and ask users to choose the more attractive person. At the beginning of 2004, Zuckerberg launched “The Facebook,” a social network dedicated to Harvard students, which later grew to encompass Columbia, Yale and Stanford. The popularity of this new service sky-rocketed and in mid-2004, Zuckerberg interrupted his studies and moved his operation to Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. By 2006, Facebook was open to the general public. In 2020, the company reported almost 86 billion U.S. dollars in revenue and a net income of 29.15 billion US dollars. It is also the most popular social network in the world, with 2.7 billion monthly active users as of December 2020. Facebook employee diversity criticismLike many other tech companies, Facebook has been criticized for having a diversity problem. As of June 2020, tech positions, as well as management roles in U.S. offices were overwhelmingly occupied by men. Furthermore, almost 41 percent of Facebook employees in the U.S. are White and only 3.9 percent are African-American, which has sparked concern regarding representation and equal opportunities. Around 63.2 percent of senior level positions are occupied by White employees and only 4.3 percent by Hispanic-Americans.

Meta reported 67.32K in Employees for its fiscal year ending in December of 2023. Data for Meta | FB - Employees Total Number including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last March in 2025.

This statistic displays the number of individuals employed by Facebook UK in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2019. The number of employees based in the UK has increased significantly since 2011, reaching an average of 2,710 employees monthly in 2019.

Facebook has come a long way since its humble beginnings in Spain in 2008, and its expaning strategy has reflected on the company's staff. As can be seen, the number of employees of the company rose from 12 to 56 workers from 2014 to 2019. It is a small number of the Facebook's global workforce but a significant increase for the Spanish subsidiary.

In 2022, 6.5 percent of Meta employees in the United States identified as Hispanic and 4.9 percent identified as Black. Asian employees accounted for over 46.5 percent of the overall workforce, whilst white employees made up 37.6 percent of Meta's workforce.

As of June 2022, only 37.1 percent of all global Meta Platforms employees were women. The majority of employees were male. Overall, women made up 25.8 percent of tech roles and 60.5 percent of non-tech roles.

This horizontal bar chart displays employees (people) by Facebook link using the aggregation sum and is filtered where the country is Malawi. The data is about companies.

As of June 2022, 37.1 percent of worldwide Meta employees were women, an increase of 0.5 percent in the previous year. Overall, almost 63 percent of the company were men. The company has reported diversity metrics since 2014, and whilst the share of women employed by the company has increased, men continue to account for the overall majority. Moreover, Meta have reported that women were more likely to accept remote job offers.

This bar chart displays employees (people) by Facebook link using the aggregation sum and is filtered where the country is Malawi. The data is about companies.

This horizontal bar chart displays employees (people) by Facebook link using the aggregation sum and is filtered where the country is West Bank and Gaza. The data is about companies.

At the end of the most recently reported year, microblogging and social networking company X (formerly Twitter) employed 7,500 people, up from 5,500 people in the previous year.

X/Twitter's corporate demography

In 2020, the majority of X/Twitter'semployees were male with a share of 57 percent and of a white ethnicity with 41 percent. African American and Latinx ethnicities were severely underrepresented with only 6.5 and 5.4 percent share respectively of all employees at Twitter.

Distribution of X/Twitter employees by gender and department in 2020 is revealing. In tech departments, over 73 percent of employees were male. Men also dominated the leadership departments with 62 percent. X/Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in March 2006 and since then, a man has always held top positions of chairman and CEO. The only department at X/Twitter whereby women were represented well was in the Non-tech departments. In 2017, women held 53.7 percent of non-tech roles. Other social media companies The gender landscape at Facebook in 2020 followed a similar vein. The distribution of Facebook employees worldwide by gender and department revealed that men dominated the tech departments with a 76 percent share and senior level positions with a 66 percent share.

This horizontal bar chart displays employees (people) by Facebook link using the aggregation sum and is filtered where the country is Ukraine. The data is about companies.

There were 5 315 100 Facebook users in Singapore in June 2024, which accounted for 81.7% of its entire population. The majority of them were women - 51.2%. People aged 25 to 34 were the largest user group (1 669 800). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 18 to 24, where women lead by 363 600.

This bar chart displays employees (people) by Facebook link using the aggregation sum and is filtered where the industry is Diversified Telecommunication Services. The data is about companies.

In 2023, Amazon.com was the top-ranked internet company based on number of employees. The e-commerce giant reported a workforce of more than 1.52 million employees. Amazon has consistently topped the ranking as the online company with the biggest workforce, but the global COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap as e-commerce has boomed since. During the same period, Meta (formerly Facebook Inc.) had a total of 67,317 full-time employees. Additionally, Google's parent company Alphabet had 183,323 full-time workers in 2024.

This bar chart displays employees (people) by Facebook link using the aggregation sum and is filtered where the country is Argentina. The data is about companies.

As of June 2022, 57.6 percent of employees in leadership roles at Meta were white, whilst 28.6 percent were Asian. Overall, 11.7 percent of employees in non-technical roles were Hispanic, and 11.2 percent were Black. Moreover, Asian employees accounted for the majority of employees in technical roles, making up 55.8 percent of employees in these positions.

Abstract (en): Social networks can shape many aspects of social and economic activity: migration and trade, job-seeking, innovation, consumer preferences and sentiment, public health, social mobility, and more. In turn, social networks themselves are associated with geographic proximity, historical ties, political boundaries, and other factors. Traditionally, the unavailability of large-scale and representative data on social connectedness between individuals or geographic regions has posed a challenge for empirical research on social networks. More recently, a body of such research has begun to emerge using data on social connectedness from online social networking services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. To date, most of these research projects have been built on anonymized administrative microdata from Facebook, typically by working with coauthor teams that include Facebook employees. However, there is an inherent limit to the number of researchers that will be able to work with social network data through such collaborations. In this paper, we therefore introduce a new measure of social connectedness at the US county level. Our Social Connectedness Index is based on friendship links on Facebook, the global online social networking service. Specifically, the Social Connectedness Index corresponds to the relative frequency of Facebook friendship links between every county-pair in the United States, and between every US county and every foreign country. Given Facebook's scale as well as the relative representativeness of Facebook's user body, these data provide the first comprehensive measure of friendship networks at a national level.

This bar chart displays employees (people) by Facebook link using the aggregation sum and is filtered where the city includes Edmeston. The data is about companies.

This dataset is about companies in the United Kingdom, featuring 3 columns: company, employees, and Facebook link. The preview is ordered by revenues (descending).