(31) Number of employees
As of December 31, 2020, the number of employees at Group was 58,096 (December 31, 2019: 57,036 employees).
The following table shows the average number of employees broken down by function.
|
|
2020 |
|
2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Production |
|
17,624 |
|
16,455 |
Administration |
|
11,338 |
|
10,338 |
Research and development |
|
7,503 |
|
7,559 |
Supply chain |
|
4,298 |
|
4,109 |
Marketing and sales |
|
14,101 |
|
13,939 |
Other |
|
2,716 |
|
1,207 |
Average number of employees |
|
57,580 |
|
53,607 |