57,100 direct employees
We have over 7,500 Sales Professionals, over 13,000 Managed Service Employees at customer sites and over 13,000 Technical Service Employees. In addition, we have over 6,500 Agents and Concessionaires and over 10,000 resellers.
As of December 31, 2008, we had a worldwide service force of approximately 13,000 employees and an extensive variable contract service force. We continue to expand our use of cost-effective remote service technology for basic product offerings while utilizing our direct service force and a variable contract service force to address customers’ more advanced technology requirements. The increasing use of a variable contract service force is consistent with our strategy to reduce service costs while maintaining high-quality levels of service. We believe that our service force represents a significant competitive advantage because it is continually trained on our products and its diagnostic equipment is state-of-the-art. We offer service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in major metropolitan areas around the world, providing a consistent and superior level of service worldwide.