"headcount increase" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is generally used as a noun phrase describing the increase in a company's total number of employees. For example, "Our headcount increase last year resulted in greater diversity in our company's workforce."
Mark Zuckerberg's company hired 36 black employees last year out of a total headcount increase of 1,216.
The most recent EEO filing available shows Facebook hired an additional seven black people out of an overall headcount increase of 1,231 in 2013.
Kroll also highlighted an upward trend in recent years of traffic stops by the university's police department, which currently has 72 sworn officers – a headcount increase from 45 in 2012.
Gender and racial diversity is weak across Silicon Valley tech firms, with Facebook found to have hired an additional seven black people (including just one black woman) out of an overall headcount increase of 1,231 in 2013.
The new offices, combined with continued efforts to grow at home, will require a significant headcount increase, according to Revel, with its San Francisco-based staff set to increase by 50percentt immediately on the tail of this raise.
The objective is to have 25 people working for Contract Live before the end of the year, with a second office in the U.S. At the same time, the company needs to sign new clients to ramp up its revenue and support the headcount increase.
Its staff costs also grew by £2m as its headcount increased by 45 people, to 660.
Over the same period the company's white employee headcount increased by 695.
Google said its headcount increased to 19,835 employees in the quarter, reversing three quarters of declines.
Facebook's black female headcount increased by just one person over 2013 to 11, and the number of black men increased by six to 34.
Between 2000 and 2011, the French town-hall headcount increased by 26%.The new budget squeeze, and the fact that most civil-service jobs are protected, will force towns to put such projects on hold.
