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To leverage our employees’ wealth of ideas for the benefit of
our entire organization, we’ve launched the Ideas, Impulses,
Initiatives (i) Program – a Company-wide idea management
initiative. And it’s paying off: we’ve put over , employee
suggestions into practice over the last five years – achieving
savings of more than €. billion.
But we want to do even better. That’s why we conduct world-
wide surveys every year to measure employee satisfaction and
pinpoint areas for further improvement. We take the survey
findings very seriously since we know that only highly moti-
vated employees who identify with our Company can achieve
the excellent results we need to remain successful. Our em-
ployees’ commitment, expertise and performance are one of
our greatest strengths.
 ,  -
  ,  -
../
Worldwide presence: We’re active in all regions
of the world. And our workforce reflects it. The
number of Siemens employees outside Europe
has grown continuously in recent fiscal years.
Employee shareholders: We’re proud that
roughly , Siemens employees took part
in employee share programs in fiscal .
This is a clear sign of our employees’ trust in
our values, our vision and, in short, the future
of our Company.
Continuing education: We provide employees
at all levels of our Company with an opportunity
to unleash their full potential. In fiscal ,
we again increased our
total expenditure for
continuing education as well as our educational
outlays for each
individual employee.
Siemens employee
shareholders in fiscal 
Siemens employees
worldwide in fiscal 
Expenditure for continuing
education in fiscal 
€
per employee
€ million
total
%
Europe, Commonwealth
of Independent States,
Africa, Middle East
%
Americas %
Asia, Australia /
of all employees
,
employees