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by foobaw 1227 days ago
400,000+? I don't mean to question this but that's a crazy high number assuming it's not Amazon or Walmart.
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At a guess there's at least 20 companies with head counts that high, and most of them aren't tech and retail.
Was that a guess? It was an impressive one. There seems to be 21 companies with 400k+ people.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/largest-companies-by-number-o...

Huh, it was but I can't take credit for being clever about it, just simple order of magnitude estimation with a factor: e.g. I thought of a handful I was pretty sure were 500k+, rounded up to 10, then doubled as I know I don't know much about the space.
Much much more than that in case OP is not in the US.
Globally there are many large companies of this size.