Klarna employees 2011-2022

Klarna's plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce in 2022 mean the end of a significant increase in employees in previous years. The company reported to have hired more than 1,500 full-time equivalents or FTE worth of employees between December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2021, leading to nearly 4,800 FTE by the end of 2021. Estimates are this equaled a total workforce of roughly 7,000 people, of which 700 were confirmed to be laid off. Economic downturns - including fears over a new U.S. recession in 2022 - as well as a growing savings interest rate impacted several companies that were growing at a fast pace in the wake of COVID-19 and when many people started exploring fintech solutions and cryptocurrency investments during lockdown.

Klarna number of employees worldwide from 2011 to 2022 (in FTE)

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Release date

April 2023

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Region

Sweden

Survey time period

2011 to 2022

Special properties

Numbers only available for the full year; The source only first reported "number of employees" to later switch to "full-time equivalents"; The source does not clarify whether this equals a headcount or not. There is also no explanation for the big difference in numbers between 2021 and 2022.

Supplementary notes

The following sources were used for this statistic:

Klarna's annual reporting on full-time equivalents (FTE), including page 23 in the 2021 report, and page 20 in the 2019 report;
Layoffs.fyi;
Di.se - which reported a number of 7,000 employees in May 2022 - of which 10 percent (700 employees) would be laid off. This source does not explain the difference reported by Klarna for 2021 versus the 7,000 in May 2022 - although it does mention that the reporting was confirmed by Klarna;
Fortune implies in a April 2023 interview with Klarna's CEO that the layoff of 700 people was still the most recent one.

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