Development of employee numbers

During the reporting period, METRO employed an average of 137,136 (2015/16: 138,089) employees on the basis of full-time equivalents. This is a decrease of 0.7% from the same period of the previous year. The majority of our employees work outside of our home market Germany. In Western Europe (excluding Germany), Eastern Europe and Asia, we had 92,611 full-time equivalents, 0.2% more than during the same period of the previous year. In Germany, the workforce by full-time equivalents decreased slightly to 44,525 (2015/16: 45,702). During the reporting period, the METRO Wholesale segment employed an average of 102,368 full-time equivalents. This represents an increase of 0.3% over the same period of the previous year. The workforce by full-time equivalents at Real declined by 2.5% to 26,601 while the number of full-time equivalents in the Others segment decreased by 7.7% to 8,167.

Employee development of METRO

Average

Number of employees by region

full-time equivalents

Number of employees by segment

full-time equivalents

Employee turnover rate

The average length of employment in the reporting period was 10.3 years (2015/16: 10.3 years). Turnover rates varied widely between the regions. The development of the regional fluctuation rates is illustrated in the figure below.

METRO fluctuation

by regions