[37] Employees

The Group had an average of 19,764 employees in the year under review (2009: 20,667). The number of employees (including part-time employees expressed as a proportion of full-time equivalents) is broken down by region as follows:

Employees (average)

2010

2009

 

 

 

Germany

7,785

7,971

France

3,172

3,395

U.K.

1,467

1,862

Italy

1,044

1,106

Rest of Europe

3,073

3,229

Asia

2,319

2,199

Rest of world

904

905

Total employees

19,764

20,667

Information on employee numbers as at the end of the year is available in the Group management report. When it was included for the first time, URBAN-TRANSPORTE GMBH, Unterschleissheim employed a workforce of 81.

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