It varies as per the job
Employee strength of a business describes its success. India’s top businesses employ lakhs of people. Quess Corp. employs 3.85 lakh people. It manages staffing for Amazon and Samsung. TCS employs 3.5 lakh employees in India. Infosys employs 2.43 lakh employees. Reliance and Swiggy employ about 2 lakh each. Only those businesses last for more than 100 years, which have less than 300 employees.
As per Economist 150 is the sweet spot. According to anthropologist Robin Dunbar humans tend to have five intimate friends, 15 or so good friends, around 50 social friends and 150-odd acquaintances. The armed forces have spent millennia experimenting with unit size. A Roman centurion oversaw 100. The modern American army company has 180 members. Britain’s equivalent numbers 120.
He says, “Small work teams may also tend towards these two size ranges. “If you want a committee to decide something, limit it to four to five people. But to brainstorm in a meeting, you need 12–15.”
Not more than 1% of the businesses employ more than 150 people. Smaller companies last longer than big companies. 89% of organisations that last more than 100 years employ fewer than 300 people. Stay small.