Foreign companies create nearly 1.4 million jobs

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Employment at foreign-owned multinationals, by sector, 2014

	Number
Trade	205
Manufacturing	194
Transport and storage	87
Professional, scientific and technical activities	79
Information and communication	61
Professional, scientific and technical activities	45
Accommodation and food services	25
Construction	23
Other	19

Employment at foreign-owned multinationals, by sector, 2014

	Number
Trade	205
Manufacturing	194
Transport and storage	87
Professional, scientific and technical activities	79
Information and communication	61
Professional, scientific and technical activities	45
Accommodation and food services	25
Construction	23
Other	19

FTEs as shares in each sector

Jobs created by suppliers of foreign multinationals

Companies often depend on goods and services from other companies for their production and operating processes, thereby providing work to each other. For example, a large manufacturer of revolving doors buys its glass panels from a small glassmaker, which in turn uses an accounting firm for its accounting needs. Most of this ‘indirect employment’ created by multinational corporations ends up at non-multinationals.

In 2014, over 460 thousand FTEs were created at non-multinationals as part of being in the supply chain of foreign-owned multinationals. In addition, Dutch multinationals and the non-business economy (esp. non-profit institutions) created over 115 thousand and 70 thousand FTEs respectively by being part of such supply chains.

Input sectors

By far the most important suppliers of foreign-owned multinationals are companies in the sectors trade and commercial services. Almost 60 percent of indirect employment is created in these sectors.