Volkswagen had by far the highest amount of global employees of all companies based in Germany in 2020, at approximately 671 thousand employees. Deutsche Post DHL Group had the second highest number of employees at 504 thousand, followed by Bosch which had 398 thousand employees.
Largest companies based in Germany on number of employees worldwide in 2020
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