People

Our business purpose is to help people get on in their lives through learning – or to be ‘always learning’. The use of ‘people’ in describing our business purpose is deliberate in that this applies as much to the people that work at Pearson as it does to the millions of people who benefit from our products and services.

Pearson has always been a business built on ideas and as such relies on the minds and creativity of our people. At the same time, Pearson is a business in transition. We are seeing rapid growth in:

• Digital business. 29% of sales now come from digital up from 20% in 2006;
• Emerging markets. Sales revenue from our businesses in Latin America, China, India, Africa and the Middle East has more than doubled to $834m in the last five years. 20% of our employees are now located in these markets in readiness for further growth;
• Technology and services in education. We are changing from being a textbook publisher to a broad-based supplier of education technology and services as well as curriculum materials.

These changes are shaping how we think about the structure of our business and the types of people we employ.

• US 20,200 (56%)
• UK 7,550 (21%)
• ROW 8,250 (23%)

Learn more here.