Development of employee numbers

During the reporting period, METRO employed an average workforce of 93,133 full-time equivalents (2017/18: 96,344). This is a decrease of 3.3% from the same period of the previous year. The majority of our employees work outside of our home market Germany. Internationally, we had 75,943 full-time equivalents, 3.7% fewer than during the same period of the previous year. In Germany, the workforce by full-time equivalents decreased slightly to 17,190 (2017/18: 17,508). During the reporting period, METRO Wholesale employed an average of 85,261 full-time equivalents. This represents a decrease of 3.6% over the same period of the previous year. The workforce by full-time equivalents at METRO AG declined by 2.7% to 855 while the number of full-time equivalents in the Others segment decreased by 0.4% to 7,017.