Western Digital: Number of Employees 2012-2026 | WDC

Interactive chart of Western Digital (WDC) annual worldwide employee count from 2012 to 2026.
  • Western Digital total number of employees in 2025 was 40,000, a 21.57% decline from 2024.
  • Western Digital total number of employees in 2024 was 51,000, a 3.77% decline from 2023.
  • Western Digital total number of employees in 2023 was 53,000, a 18.46% decline from 2022.
  • Western Digital total number of employees in 2022 was 65,000, a 0.91% decline from 2021.
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Western Digital Annual Employee Count
2025 40,000
2024 51,000
2023 53,000
2022 65,000
2021 65,600
2020 63,800
2019 61,800
2018 71,600
2017 68,000
2016 72,878
2015 76,449
2014 84,072
2013 85,777
2012 103,111
2011 65,431
Sector Industry Market Cap Revenue
Computer and Technology Computer Storage Devices $116.436B $9.520B
Western Digital Corporation is one of the largest hard disk drive producers in the U.S. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of HDDs used in desktop PCs, servers, network-attached storage devices, video game consoles, digital video recorders and a host of other consumer electronic devices. The acquisition of SanDisk enabled the company to venture into the flash drive storage technology space. Western Digital sells hard drives of 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch form factors with storage capacities ranging from 30 gigabytes (GB) to 6 terabytes (TB). The company's solid-state drives (SSDs) include 2.5-inch, mSATA, MO-297 and CompactFlash form factors, with storage capacities ranging from 128 megabytes (MB) to 400 GB. The company provides WD software applications, such as WD Photos and WD 2GO to the mobile computing market. The company's solutions are compatible with Apple's iOS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Platforms.
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