Weak labor market in pandemic? Microsoft's 2022 employment growth says otherwise.

Microsoft brought in 23,500 employees over a one-year period ending in September 2022. That growth is the largest the visitor has ever had in one yr, apart from when Microsoft acquired Nokia in 2022. Microsoft at present has almost 190,000 employees worldwide, 57% of which are in the U.s..

The figures came alongside Microsoft'southward quarterly earnings. GeekWire compiled historical data from Microsoft'south public records over the by decade to provide context of the last year's employment growth.

Here are some highlights of the employment growth figures:

The bulk of Microsoft'south new employees are outside of the United States (nigh 14,000, which is around threescore% of total employment).
57% of Microsoft'southward employees are within the United States, even afterward the large international growth.
Most new Microsoft employees in the U.s.a. are outside of the Seattle region, which is where the company is headquartered.
Microsoft doubled in size over the last ten years in terms of total employees (nigh xc,000 up to 189,984).

It's important to notation that Microsoft'southward employment figures don't include contract workers or people from outside vendors. GeekWire notes that these types of employees historically total in the tens of thousands.

Microsoft's employee growth came during a global pandemic in which many companies had to reduce the number of employees.

The annual figures include Microsoft's acquisition of ZeniMax Media, which owns Bethesda. The numbers do not include the acquisition of AI behemothic Dash.

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