Social Performance
Our Workforce
Our People Agenda
We have defined three key strategic pillars built on a strong foundation that together make up our People Agenda:
Our growth culture
guides how we work internally and how we address market needs and customer relationships. It increases our capacity for change, drives efficiency, and ensures accountability, helping us deliver high-performance results for our customers and markets. To support this evolution, we are implementing an execution architecture that enables scale, speed, and adaptability.
Our skills-led people ecosystem
fuels growth, innovation, and opportunity—both for our people and our business.
This transformation is foundational to our future and reflects a paradigm shift in how we approach hiring, learning, development, and career pathing.
Our game-changing people technology
harnesses SAP’s own technological capabilities to, delivering data-driven, AI-first, and personalized solutions for everyone at SAP. These solutions will enable us to foster data-driven and transparent decision-making for leaders and allow everyone to grow and develop to their best abilities based on data insights.
Our people-centric work environment, which is the foundation for these pillars, fosters employee well-being, safety, and health, as well as workplace diversity, and inclusion.
#Unfiltered Survey
#Unfiltered
#Unfiltered, our employee engagement survey runs twice a year to measure key people metrics, engagement drivers, and employee sentiment. #Unfiltered is a demonstration of our commitment to listen regularly to our employees and act together on their feedback. In 2025, we ran surveys in April and October to gauge sentiment on employee engagement, leadership, health and well-being, and other topics.
The Employee Engagement Index is part of the short-term, one-year performance-based compensation (Short-Term Incentive, STI) of the Executive Board members.
The Business Health Culture Index is part of the long-term, three-year performance-based compensation (Long-Term Incentive, LTI) of the Executive Board members.
Inclusion
Inclusion and Equal Opportunity
SAP’s inclusion strategy is a core component of our corporate governance and commitment to equal opportunity. It ensures alignment with global standards, embeds inclusive and responsible people practices, and supports innovation and long-term business performance. Our diverse workforce strengthens our ability to serve global markets and reinforces SAP’s reputation as an ethical and responsible employer.
| Gender | Number of Employees (headcount) | Number of Employees (full-time equivalent) |
| Male | 71,503 | 71,340 |
| Female | 39,891 | 39,307 |
| Other | 1 | 1 |
| Not reported | 2 | 2 |
| Total employees | 111,397 | 110,650 |
Workforce Breakdown
Number of Employees by Region and Function
The following table provides an overview of employee headcount, broken down by function and by the regions EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Americas (North America and Latin America), and APJ (Asia Pacific Japan).
Key Performance Indicators
The page above shows the KPIs included in the Integrated Report. For additional KPIs, please refer to the Report Data Hub.