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Workforce
Number of employees remains stable. At December 31,
2013, the Daimler Group employed a total of 274,616 men and
women. As expected, the workforce remained as large as it
had been at the end of 2012. Whereas the number of employees
rose in Germany to 167,447 (2012: 166,363), it declined to
20,993 in the United States (2012: 21,720). At the end of 2013,
Daimler had 14,091 employees in Brazil (2012: 14,610) and
11,275 in Japan (2012: 11,286).
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sidiaries in China had a total headcount of 1,966 at the end
of the year (2012: 2,730). Workforce numbers dropped in China
as a result of integrating the car sales organizations into a
non-consolidated joint venture company. In addition, 2,274 South
African sales employees who were previously assigned to
Mercedes-Benz Cars are now listed within the sales organization.
At the end of the reporting year, Daimler AG employed
a total of 150,605 men and women (2012: 149,644).
Workforce numbers increased in 2013 at Daimler Financial
Services. They also rose at our vehicle sales organization
because of the aforementioned structural effect. Whereas the
number of employees at Mercedes-Benz Vans remained
largely unchanged compared with the end of 2012, it decreased
at Mercedes-Benz Cars, Daimler Trucks and Daimler Buses.
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We have combined in-house services worldwide in shared
service centers in order to further improve the quality and
efficien cy of our administrative functions and various services.
These shared services include financial processes, IT and
development tasks, sales functions and certain location-specific
services. The shared service centers are not consolidated
because they do not affect our profitability, cash flow or financial
position. The centers employed approximately 4,700 men
and women at the end of 2013.
The employees of our Chinese joint ventures are also
not included in the Group’s total workforce; they employed
approximately 17,600 people at December 31, 2013.
High level of profit sharing. For the successful financial
year of 2012, Daimler’s management and General Works Council
agreed once again to pay a performance participation bonus
to our employees paid according to collective bargaining wage
tariffs. At the end of April 2013, all of the eligible employees
at Daimler AG were paid an amount of €3,200. This is a visible
expression of how we honor our employees for their efforts
and commitment.
The eligible employees of Daimler AG in Germany will also
receive a fair and appropriate performance participation bonus
for financial year 2013. The amount has been determined
on the basis of a new, transparent system that was agreed upon
by the management and the General Works Council. The
resulting amount is €2,541. The management has also decided
to pay a one-time special bonus of €500. This special bonus
is an expression of gratitude to the employees for their special
commitment last year. The full participation in the company’s
success of €3,041 will be paid out in April 2014.
Slight increase in average age of our employees. In 2013,
our global workforce had an average age of 42.3 years
(2012: 41.9). Our employees in Germany were 43.5 years old
on average (2012: 43.1). Employees who are 50 years old
or older currently make up about 34% of our permanent work-
force at Daimler AG. On the basis of current assumptions,
this proportion will rise to about 50% over the next ten years.
Changes in the collective bargaining agreement and the
legal framework, such as retirement at age 67, are intensifying
this demographic trend.
As part of our diversity management activities, we are addressing
the challenges resulting from the aging of our workforce.
This means that we have to create ways for older employees
to get more involved in our work processes, and also
that we must recruit younger people in a targeted manner.
Employees at 12/31/2013
By region
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Germany 61.0%
Europe, excluding Germany 12.7%
USA 7.6%
Brazil 5.1%
Japan 4.1%
Other 9.4%
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Employees by division
2013 2012 13/12
Employees (December 31) % change
Daimler Group 274,616 275,087 -0
Mercedes-Benz Cars 96,895 98,020 -1
Daimler Trucks 79,020 80,519 -2
Mercedes-Benz Vans 14,838 14,916 -1
Daimler Buses 16,603 16,901 -2
Sales & Marketing Organization 52,455 50,683 +3
Daimler Financial Services 8,107 7,779 +4
Other 6,698 6,269 +7