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<strong>METRO</strong> GROUP : ANNUAL REPORT 2010 : BUSINESS<br />

→ GROUP MANAGEMENT REPORT : 5. EMPLOyEES<br />

5. Employees<br />

A strong foundation for success<br />

<strong>METRO</strong> GROUP rigorously focuses its business activities on<br />

its customers’ needs and shopping habits. As a result, our<br />

employees assume substantial responsibility: they know the<br />

requirements of consumers and commercial customers<br />

best of all and can respond individually to their expectations.<br />

For this reason, we place great value on a qualified, motivated,<br />

committed and entrepreneurial workforce.<br />

In the financial year 2010, <strong>METRO</strong> GROUP employed an average<br />

of 283,280 employees, 1.1 percent less than a year earlier.<br />

Aside from the Company’s permanent workforce, this<br />

number also includes temporary employees. Measured in<br />

full-time equivalents, the total number of employees stood<br />

at 252,258 – which corresponds to a drop of 1,534 employees,<br />

or 0.6 percent year-on-year. In Germany, the number of<br />

full-time employees declined by 2,772 to 94,169 during the<br />

reporting year. This corresponds to a decline of 2.9 percent<br />

year-on-year. Employment in the other countries where<br />

<strong>METRO</strong> GROUP operates rose by 1,238 to 158,089 full-time<br />

equivalents – that is 0.8 percent more employees than a year<br />

earlier.<br />

Workforce of <strong>METRO</strong> GROUP<br />

annual average<br />

Workforce by headcount<br />

2010<br />

2009<br />

Germany International<br />

Total<br />

112,464 170,816<br />

283,280 (–1,1%)<br />

Workforce by full-time equivalents<br />

2010<br />

2009<br />

116,791 169,538<br />

286,329<br />

Germany International<br />

Total<br />

94,169 158,089 252,258 (–0,6%)<br />

96,941 156,851<br />

253,792<br />

Restructuring related to Shape 2012 was a key reason for the<br />

slightly negative employment trend; this also includes the<br />

divestment of stores. <strong>METRO</strong> GROUP cut an additional 9,005<br />

jobs in this context in 2010. As far as possible, personnel cuts<br />

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were carried out using normal turnover. The total number of<br />

staff cuts related to Shape 2012 since 2009 amounts to<br />

16,864 1 . however, to a large extent, we were able to offset<br />

these adjustments by creating new jobs as part of our continuing<br />

expansion, among other things. New concepts also<br />

had a positive impact on employee numbers.<br />

Our personnel costs amounted to €7.4 billion during the<br />

reporting year. That is an increase of <strong>2.5</strong> percent compared<br />

with the previous year. Of total personnel costs, wages and<br />

salaries – including wage tax and employee contributions to<br />

social insurance programmes – accounted for €6.1 billion.<br />

during the reporting year, €1.3 billion was attributable to<br />

social welfare contributions, pension expenses and employee<br />

benefits.<br />

In Germany, employee turnover stood at 8.3 percent during<br />

the reporting year. Across the <strong>Group</strong>, the turnover rate<br />

amounted to 16.6 percent. Turnover in the dynamic growth<br />

markets of Eastern Europe was 23.5 percent.<br />

In contrast to sector trends, the share of part-time employees<br />

at our <strong>Group</strong> continued to decline. In 2010, 28.6 percent<br />

(previous year: 29.8 percent) of all employees worked parttime.<br />

In Germany, this figure stood at 44.5 percent (previous<br />

year: 45.4 percent). Employees’ average age rose from 36.2<br />

to 37.4 years, and average job tenure increased from 8.0 to<br />

8.1 years.<br />

Shaping demographic change<br />

we expect demographic changes to result in a shrinking<br />

labour pool in Europe. In addition, employees’ average age<br />

will rise worldwide, while migration to western European<br />

countries is likely to increase. we place a high priority on<br />

actively shaping these changes. Therefore, we focus on the<br />

needs-based training of qualified workers and executives,<br />

active diversity management and sustainable health and<br />

work safety policies.<br />

Promoting training – securing the future<br />

we meet a large share of our demand for qualified workers<br />

and executives through in-house training. during the reporting<br />

year, the number of apprentices world-wide totalled<br />

10,682, a slight increase of 4.7 percent compared to the previous<br />

year. Our Company ranked among Germany’s leading<br />

providers of vocational training in 2010 with a share of<br />

apprentices of 8.4 percent. All in all, we trained 7,894 apprentices<br />

in more than 25 occupations in 2010, that is 406 fewer<br />

1 Comparison of the number of employees at <strong>METRO</strong> GROUP locations existing as at 31 december 2008 with those existing as at 31 december 2010, adjusted for employees of newly opened locations<br />

during the same period

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