Indian Railways, Army among world’s biggest employers: Study

Posted on June 30, 2015 0 Comments26

NEW DELHI: Two Indian organizations — Army and Railways — are among the world’s biggest employers, together employing a whopping 2.7 million people, said a report.

Though it is often said that Indian Railways
is the largest employer in the world, but it seems it is not. The
organization is ranked at the eighth place in the list of world’s
biggest employers.

Immediately after Indian Railways in the 8th rank with 1.4 million staff is the Indian Armed Forces with 1.3 million people.

According
to a research published by the World Economic Forum, the US department
of defense is the world’s biggest employer which claims over 3.2 million
employees on its roster.

Second is People’s Liberation Army
(the Chinese military) with 2.3 million, and in third is the US
supermarket giant Walmart with 2.1 million workers, the report said,
adding that “… 1,75,000 of Walmart’s staff work for UK supermarket
chain, Asda”.

McDonald’s is the 4th biggest employer with 1.9
million employees, however, as the majority of its restaurants are
franchises, this figure falls to 4,20,000 when they are excluded, the
report said.

UK’s National Health Service was ranked at the 5th
place, with 1.7 million employees, followed by state-run China National
Petroleum Corporation with 1.6 million.

Another Chinese company, the State Grid Corporation of China was ranked 7th with 1.5 million.

Hon Hai Precision Factory (better known as the electronics manufacturer
Foxconn) comes in at 10th place with 1.2 million people.

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