While the distribution profiles between employees and revenue could be sharply dissimilar in some companies, on average they were almost identical: for a sub-sample of 73 companies among Europe’s top 100, the home base represented 37% of employees and 35% of revenue on average in 2005, while the rest of Europe accounted for 29% of employees and 28% of revenue. This strongly suggests that jobs broadly “follow” sales (or perhaps the other way round), even though, once again, this is true only on average and not for all companies.
调查不仅研究了销售状况，还研究了员工的地理分布与收入分布之间的相对关系。尽管有些公司人员和收入的分布状况可能相去甚远，但一般来讲这两者都具有一致性：名列欧洲百强的73家公司子样中，其原属地在2005年占员工总数和收入总数的平均比例分别是37%和35%，而欧洲其他地区占员工总数和收入总数的平均比例则分别是29%和28%。这样的结果有力地表明：尽管只适用于部分公司的平均状况，但就业的分布状况与销售的分布状况大致关系呈“正相关”（反之亦然）。