Answer
1980 employees.
Work Step by Step
$\frac{part}{whole}=\frac{percent}{100}$
Looking at the details given
Here Part = 99 and percent = 5
$\frac{99}{whole}=\frac{5}{100}$
whole = $99\times\frac{100}{5} = 1980 employees.
99 employees are 5% of 1980 employees.