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Facebook Reportedly Surpasses Google, Microsoft in Terms of Profit Per Employee

Facebook Reportedly Surpasses Google, Microsoft in Terms of Profit Per Employee

By Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: 7 August 2017 10:55 IST

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Facebook made $188,498 per employee
Microsoft made $52,400 and Alphabet Inc $46,610 per employee
Twitter lost nearly $36,000 per employee

Facebook has leapfrogged Microsoft and Google's parent company Alphabet in securing maximum profit per employee in the second quarter of 2017 while Twitter suffered a hefty loss, a media report said.

Facebook, which employed 20,658 persons in the past quarter - a 43 percent increase over the same period last year - made $188,498 (roughly Rs. 1.2 crores) per employee, according to a report in ReCode.

Microsoft made $52,400 (roughly Rs. 33 lakhs) and Alphabet $46,610 per employee - four times less profit per employee than social media giant Facebook - in the three months that ended on June 30.

Verizon, AT&T and Ford followed with $27,405, $15,410 and $10,098 per employ.

Twitter, which saw a net loss of $116 million last quarter, lost nearly $36,000 per employee.

The reason for Facebook's efficiency is that software products do not require humans for the production and distribution process.

"Of course, even jobs formerly assigned to humans are coming under the purview of robots - so more industries could see consolidation of labour," the report added.

The research that was restricted to select major companies that have reported their employee count in their latest quarterly earnings, did not include Apple as they do not have a quarterly updated headcount.

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