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.