New Delhi: Two Indian
organisations - 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 organisation 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 "...175,000 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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