Where Facebook Leads Alphabet, Apple and Amazon

If there was an award for companies that create stock market value with the fewest employees, Facebook would easily win it.

The social network company has become one of the biggest companies trading on the public markets, with a market capitalization of more than $330 billion. Yet, as of Dec. 31, it employed just 12,000 people, far fewer than companies with equal or smaller market capitalizations including Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, AT&T and General Electric.