Employees

Excellent performance, the success that comes from it and participation in its rewards are at the heart of Volkswagen’s human resources strategy. Only a top team can deliver the excellence that is necessary for Volkswagen to become number one in international automotive production. This human resource policy maxim applies throughout the Group.

As of December 31, 2013, the Volkswagen Group, including the Chinese joint ventures, employed 572,800 people, 4.2% more than at the end of fiscal year 2012. Significant factors in this increase were the volume-related expansion of the workforce in the growth markets, in particular in China, and the recruitment of specialists and experts in Germany, among other places. Volkswagen AG, Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH, AUDI AG and Volkswagen Financial Services AG hired a total of 4,828 temporary employees on a permanent basis in 2013. MAN and Porsche took over 543 temporary employees into the core workforce in Germany.

The ratio of Group employees in Germany to those abroad remained unchanged in the past year: 45.4% of employees worked in Germany at the reporting date, the same as at the end of 2012.

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EMPLOYEE BREAKDOWN1
as of December 31, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

2013

 

2012

 

2011

 

2010

 

2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

Including the Chinese joint venture companies.

2

Volkswagen AG

3

Production locations excluding Scania, MAN (also excluding Porsche in 2012, also excluding Audi Brussels in 2009); accident value = number of accidents at work x 1,000 /number of hours worked.

Vocational trainees in the Group

 

17,703

 

16,714

 

15,021

 

10,545

 

9,846

Industrial

 

13,174

 

12,508

 

11,249

 

7,799

 

7,439

Commercial

 

4,529

 

4,206

 

3,772

 

2,746

 

2,407

Passive stage of partial retirement

 

9,501

 

7,804

 

4,488

 

4,778

 

7,070

Group’s active employees

 

545,596

 

525,245

 

482,447

 

384,058

 

351,584

Employees

 

572,800

 

549,763

 

501,956

 

399,381

 

368,500

Europe

 

424,964

 

410,427

 

378,030

 

290,159

 

278,779

America

 

61,796

 

63,193

 

58,072

 

54,571

 

48,529

Africa

 

6,356

 

6,461

 

6,602

 

6,546

 

5,608

Asia

 

78,672

 

68,704

 

58,540

 

47,607

 

35,123

Australia

 

1,012

 

978

 

712

 

498

 

461

Percentage of female employees in the Group

 

15.5

 

15.2

 

14.7

 

14.2

 

14.2

Female graduate recruits2 (in %)

 

35.3

 

29.2

 

30.5

 

23.6

 

22.4

Number of accidents at work3 (thousands)

 

1.9

 

1.7

 

1.8

 

1.9

 

1.9

Accident value3

 

0.003

 

0.003

 

0.003

 

0.004

 

0.004