[baha_man]

..."the NHS in the UK. Its the largest organisation in the world with 1.4M employees..."

It's big, but it's not that big, fifth or sixth largest employer in the world according to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers#Large...

[custardcream]

Ok I'm a bit off there. My data was from 2009 :)

Plus DoD is several branches so that's a bit of a push.