I am interested in the overall number of employees. Also, please share if you know how many people work at Fairfield?
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264,900 plus about 200K contractors
GE headquarters moved from F airfield to Boston in early 2019 tl get tax breaks from Massachusetts.
I read in Boston Daily Business news that when Larry Culp took over, he inherited 7,000 headquarters workers and previous plan was to build an 18 story building in expensive $$$ downtown Boston to accommodate after renting several buildings there including he old Necco candy factory. Due to these huge bloated multi Billion situation waste of money, Larry Culp terminated 2,000 workers and moved 5,000 workers to business headquarters like Atlanta etc but still bloated beyond belief. Fairfield used to have around 200-400 workers in the 1970's where several executives min Schenectady and Lynn reported to. Shocking how they had 7,000 workers just "managing things" instead of manufacturing parts and doing real work like it used to be. REally hard to believe this, but is true
This is why GE is failing now
I guess the better question is, "how many people have an sso at GE!?"
About half, the rest go to meetings.....
Here is info from the most recent 10K...
GE - TOTAL NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 264,900
- GE Power - Number of Employees: 59,700
- GE Renewable - Number of Employees: 22,900
- GE Aviation - Number of Employees: 48,000
- GE Oil & Gas - Number of Employees: 65,800
- GE Healthcare - Number of Employees: 53,800
- GE Transporation - Number of Employees: 9,400
- GE Lighting - Number of Employees: 3,000
- GE Capital - Number of Employees: 2,300
Source:
- Document: 2018 GE Annual Report
- Page: 8
- Section: How Our Segments Performed in 2018
URL: https://www.ge.com/investor-relations/sites/default/files/GE_AR18.pdf
Note:
At year-end 2018, General Electric Company and consolidated affiliates employed approximately 283,000 people, of whom approximately 97,000 were employed in the United States.
Approximately 9,900 GE and GE affiliate manufacturing and service employees in the United States are represented for collectivebargaining purposes by a union. A majority of such employees are represented by union locals that are affiliated with the IUE-CWA, The Industrial Division of the Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO, CLC.
- Source: GE 2018 FORM 10-K, Page 4
Historical Employee Count Information
- GE Total Employee Count - 2018: 283,000
- GE Total Employee Count - 2017: 313,000
- GE Total Employee Count - 2016: 295,000
- GE Total Employee Count - 2015: 333,000
- GE Total Employee Count - 2014: 305,000
Source: 10K - OTHER FINANCIAL DATA Section, Page 78, "Total Employees" Line Item
@1hwi+13cLmFcI is right, it seems 50% of GE's workforce are contractors
10%
You would have to define the term "work" to accurately answer your question. There are those who have a physical presence at GE and are on the books as being an employee but don't produce. So can you really count them as a working employee or just an employee. Then there are those who actually produce and get the work done. Some of there are employees of GE and other's are contracted from outside employment establishments to produce for GE. It's a big fuzzy math game that we are obviously bad at in the long run.