The professionals that form part of Inditex’s team are the people that make it possible for millions around the world to find the fashion of their dreams in Inditex stores every time they visit.

Inditex has some 137,054 employees worldwide who are capable of adapting to the needs of a company that reinvents itself on a daily basis. Nonconformist spirits who ask a lot of themselves yet are flexible, innovative and love working in a team find the ideal environment for their personal development from their very first day at Inditex. In order to ensure that these professionals’ skills are never limited, Inditex makes efforts to maintain their motivation by creating working environments in which they can really make the most of all their potential as professionals and, above all, as people. Inditex’s priorities for their employees are:

• Support employee development and growth
• Promote quality employment
• Create spheres for collaboration with society

Our actions to promote the development and growth of our staff and to seek to provide quality employment are reflected in our position as an employer in the market.

During 2014, Inditex generated 8,741 new jobs, closing the year with a payroll of 137,054 people and 83 different nationalities. Of the new jobs created, more than 1,800 are located in Spain, both in the Group’s stores and in its headquarters and logistics platforms – a true reflection of the company’s global growth. The group has almost 42,000 employees in Spain, up 4.5% on the previous year.

77% of Inditex staff worldwide are women; 23% men. The average age of our staff is 28 years old.

By area of activity, 87% of the staff work in stores, distributed over the five continents, a figure that has remained stable in comparison with the previous year: similarly, the percentage of workers carrying out tasks in the area of manufacturing, logistics and general services did not vary with respect to 2013.

Some 31% of the payroll is located in Spain, whereas the rest of Europe accounts for 47% of Inditex’s total employees. Asia, America and the rest of the world account for 11% of the total employees in each case.

Distribution of the Inditex Group payroll by market