G4S Values The Shape of the Organisation           The Shape of our Organisation           Employees by Region At the end of 2008, the total workforce had increased to around 585,000 in line with growth in the business. This has increased from 530,000 in 2007. In people terms, the largest geographic region in G4S is NAMESA (North Africa, Middle East and Southern Asia) with over 200,000 employees.   Employees by Role G4S employs more than 44,000 supervisory and managerial employees globally. The level of managerial and supervisory employees varies across the different regions and this is due to different geographic spread and service density as well as the degree to which technology is used as part of the customer solution.               Workforce Stability In terms of stability in the workforce, over 66% of our employees have more than one year’s service even though the employee numbers increased during the year. The annualised labour turnover rate is 27.7%.           Length of Service   Workforce Stability                     Key to charts: G4S Regional Analysis NW Europe – North West Europe C&S Europe – Central & Southern Europe LatAm – Latin America & Caribbean Sub-S Africa – Sub-Saharan Africa NAMESA – North Africa, Middle East & South Asia                     Back to top