The data displays the number of Alphabet employees between 2008 and 2016. As of that year, out of Alphabet's total number of employees, 27,169 were working in the research and development department. Up until Alphabet's creation in 2015, these figures were reported as Google employees.
2008 | 7254 | 8002 | 3109 | 1857 |
2009 | 7443 | 7338 | 2941 | 2113 |
2010 | 9508 | 8778 | 3346 | 2768 |
2011 | 11665 | 11933 | 4651 | 4218 |
2012 | 19746 | 15306 | 6214 | 12595 |
2013 | 18593 | 15348 | 6563 | 7252 |
2014 | 20832 | 17621 | 7510 | 7637 |
2015 | 23336 | 19082 | 8452 | 10944 |
2016 | 27169 | 20902 | 9695 | 14287 |