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ING Group Headquarters & offices · Amsterdam, Netherlands
ING Group · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wooden platforms and stairs criss-cross two atriums in a glass bank built for 2,800 people — with more than 300 artworks inside.
The building, the benefits and the bank's office history from the “Sandcastle” to Cedar — then the pay. Every number from ING's own filings, newsroom, careers site and the architects' project pages.
- 2,800people Cedar was built for
- 300+artworks inside the building
- 2,150solar panels on the roof
- 62,770employees (average FTE, 2025)
Sources: ING press releases (Jan 7 and Jun 26, 2020) · HofmanDujardin project page “ING Cedar” · Form 20-F 2025
Companies / Netherlands / Banking / ING Group
THE HEADQUARTERS · CEDAR · 2020
39,000 m² of glass, wooden platforms and art
Cedar is two five-storey volumes joined by a glass footbridge. At its heart, two atriums are criss-crossed by floating wooden platforms and stairs that work as meeting spots, small gardens or yoga space. The ground floors hold a garden café, coffee bars, a food court and event halls; every office floor has a silent area with a reading table and booths. The ground floor, with its artworks, is open to the public.
- 39,000 m² (≈ 419,792 sq ft)
- Workspace for 2,800 people
- BREEAM-NL Outstanding · 93.7%
- Architecture: Benthem Crouwel
- Interior & platforms: HofmanDujardin
- 300+ artworks
The atriums: floating wooden platforms and stairs
At Cedar's heart, two atriums are criss-crossed by floating wooden platforms and stairs designed by HofmanDujardin that work as meeting spots, small gardens or yoga space.
Office floors, silent areas and art
Every office floor has a silent area with a reading table and booths, and the building holds more than 300 artworks.
Outside: the green steps of Cumulus Park
Cedar, designed by Benthem Crouwel with landscape by Karres en Brands, is the centre of the Cumulus Park district at Bijlmerdreef 106 and has 2,150 solar panels on its roof.
Facts: Benthem Crouwel project page “ING Office Amsterdam” · HofmanDujardin project page “ING Cedar” · ING press releases (Jan 7 and Jun 26, 2020) · art.ing.com
Cedar and Cumulus Park, Amsterdam Zuidoost
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Cedar (ING Group head office) | Bijlmerdreef 106, 1102 CT Amsterdam |
| Acanthus (ING Netherlands head office) | Bijlmerdreef 24, 1102 CT Amsterdam Zuidoost |
Source: Form 20-F 2025 cover (principal executive offices) · careers.ing.com, Acanthus office page · See them on the map ↓
Source: Benthem Crouwel project page “ING Office Amsterdam” · ING press releases (Jan 7 and Jun 26, 2020)
Office tour videos
Benefits (Netherlands)
Paid holiday hours a year on a 36-hour week (224.89 for 40 hours), plus two collective days off.
A monthly budget of roughly 20% of salary to buy or sell leave, lease a bike or take as pay.
A thirteenth month plus an 8% holiday allowance and a 3.5% individual savings contribution.
Pregnancy and maternity leave; 28 weeks for multiples.
For new parents not entitled to maternity leave, with the option of 3 months unpaid right after.
Budget for new employees (2026) for a workstation and phone, plus €45 a month for working-from-home costs.
Your own budget for training and skills.
Two working days a year to volunteer, plus 1.5 paid “diversity days” for occasions that matter to you.
Source: careers.ing.com, “Benefits in the Netherlands” (CLA 2025–2026)
Why people stay: what ING itself says
Unchanged from 2024. ING measures turnover every month.
Two Organisational Health Index surveys in 2025; people said they value their colleagues, hybrid working and wellbeing support.
One global learning platform for all employees, with academies, courses and informal development.
The Learning Account in the Netherlands lets each employee choose their own training.
BEING, Crossing, Enable, RING (young employees), Lioness, Rainbow Lions and Experience (45+).
ING kept the highest ranking in the annual Workplace Pride global benchmark in 2025.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 (Own workforce) · careers.ing.com (Benefits in the Netherlands; Our ERG's in the Netherlands)
Who works here
employees, average FTE in 2025
of them in the Netherlands (24%)
temporary employees (FTE) on top
countries with ING colleagues
Source: Form 20-F 2025 (Item 6.D Employees; Part I)
Pay at ING Group
ING publishes an average (in thousands of euros), not a median; it rose 3.9% in 2025. The CEO's total remuneration was 24 times the average remuneration of all ING staff (ING's internal ratio).
Source: ING Group Annual Report on Form 20-F 2025, Remuneration report
Office history: from the “Sandcastle” to Cedar
- 1987 Amsterdamse Poort — the “Sandcastle”
NMB Bank chairman Wim Scherpenhuijsen Rom drove the move to a new head office in Amsterdam's southeast, far from the old financial centre. Ton Alberts and Max van Huut designed an organic, nature-inspired building. ING calls it the head office of ING and its predecessors from 1987 until 2020.
Source: ing.com news, Jul 31, 2020
Amsterdamse Poort, Bijlmerplein 888, 1987–2020 · © ING (newsroom photo, 1182 × 664 px) - 1991 ING is born from a merger
NMB Postbank Group (formed in 1989) merged with the insurer Nationale-Nederlanden. The new company was named Internationale Nederlanden Groep — soon ING Group.
Source: ing.com/about-us/history · ing.com news, Jul 31, 2020
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2000 Strawinskylaan 2631
ING Groep's address in its 2000 U.S. registration statement was Strawinskylaan 2631, 1077 ZZ Amsterdam.
Source: Form F-4, Jun 27, 2000
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2002 ING House on the A10
Meyer and Van Schooten Architects completed a glass-and-aluminium head office for ING Group on stilts 9–12 m tall beside the A10 ring road, with a double-skin façade and six themed interior gardens. ING's annual reports from 2003 to 2012 give Amstelveenseweg 500 as its principal executive office.
Source: MVSA Architects project page “ING House” · Form 20-F 2003–2012
ING House, Amstelveenseweg, 2002 · Unknown author / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2013 Back to Bijlmerplein 888
From the 2013 annual report until 2019, ING Groep's principal executive office address is Bijlmerplein 888 in Amsterdam Zuidoost.
Source: Form 20-F 2013–2019
Bijlmerplein 888, interior · Minke Wagenaar / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2017 Building Cedar
Construction started in July 2017, after an empty office building on the site was demolished; its concrete was partly reused in the new building.
Source: ING press release, Jan 7, 2020
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2020 Cedar opens
The first employees moved in in November 2019, and ING officially opened Cedar at Bijlmerdreef 106 in January 2020: 39,000 m² of workspace for 2,800 people, the centre of the Cumulus Park innovation district.
Source: ING press release, Jan 7, 2020 · Form 20-F 2020 cover
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
ING's head office addresses have moved between Amsterdam's south (Strawinskylaan, then ING House beside the A10 next to the Zuidas) and Amsterdam Zuidoost, where the group has worked from Cedar on the Bijlmerdreef since 2020.
- 1 · 1987Amsterdamse Poort, Bijlmerplein 888 — The organic “Sandcastle” by Ton Alberts and Max van Huut
- 2 · 2000Strawinskylaan 2631 — Address in ING's 2000 SEC registration statement
- 3 · 2002ING House, Amstelveenseweg 500 — The glass building on stilts beside the A10
- 4 · 2013Bijlmerplein 888 — Principal executive office again, 2013–2019 filings
- 5 · 2020Cedar, Bijlmerdreef 106 — Today's head office in Cumulus Park
Addresses: Form F-4 (2000) · Form 20-F covers 2003–2025 · ing.com news (Jul 31, 2020) · MVSA Architects
What ING Group does
ING was created in 1991 when the Dutch insurer Nationale-Nederlanden merged with the postal bank NMB Postbank. Today it is a bank: retail banking in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and other markets, plus wholesale banking for companies and institutions worldwide.
Reported by business line: Retail Banking Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Other, Wholesale Banking, and the Corporate Line.
Where the money came from · Total income by business line, 2025
Source: Form 20-F 2025, Total operations by business line (IFRS-EU, EUR million). Corporate Line (€0.5B) not shown.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
€17.9B → €23.0B
51,943 → 62,770
Total income in EUR billions and average employees (FTE) as reported in ING's Form 20-F filings for 2017–2025 (each year as first reported in the filing that covers it; 2023–2025 from the 2025 filing). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
CEO and chair of the Executive Board since July 2020; before that, chief risk officer. On the Executive Board since May 2017.
CEO when Cedar opened in January 2020.
One of ING's founding fathers; chairman of NMB Bank (1976–1989) and NMB Postbank Group (1989–1991), then of ING Group in 1992.
ING was created in 1991 by the merger of Nationale-Nederlanden and NMB Postbank Group.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 · ING press release, Jan 7, 2020 · ing.com news, Jul 31, 2020
ING Group: questions people ask
Where is ING's headquarters?
ING Group's principal executive office is Cedar, Bijlmerdreef 106, 1102 CT Amsterdam, in the Cumulus Park district of Amsterdam Zuidoost. ING Netherlands also has a head office nearby, Acanthus at Bijlmerdreef 24.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 · careers.ing.com
Who designed ING's Cedar office?
Benthem Crouwel Architects designed the building; HofmanDujardin designed the full interior and the wooden platforms and stairs in the two atriums; Karres en Brands designed the landscape.
Source: ING press release, Jan 7, 2020 · HofmanDujardin
How big is ING's headquarters?
Cedar has 39,000 m² (about 419,792 sq ft) of workspace for 2,800 employees, plus 10,740 m² of parking.
Source: ING press release, Jan 7, 2020 · Benthem Crouwel
When did ING move into Cedar?
Construction started in July 2017, the first employees moved in in November 2019, and ING officially opened Cedar in January 2020.
Source: ING press release, Jan 7, 2020
Can you visit ING's Cedar office?
The ground floor of Cedar, with many works from the ING Collection, is accessible to the public.
Source: art.ing.com, See the collection
Is ING's headquarters sustainable?
Yes. Cedar received BREEAM-NL Outstanding with an overall score of 93.7%, has 2,150 solar panels on its roof and saves up to 12 million litres of water a year.
Source: ING press release, Jun 26, 2020
What benefits does ING offer in the Netherlands?
202.4 paid holiday hours a year on a 36-hour week, a monthly Benefits Budget of about 20% of salary, a 13th month, 24 weeks of maternity leave, a €375 Learning Account and a home-office budget.
Source: careers.ing.com, Benefits in the Netherlands
Does ING allow hybrid work?
Yes. In the Netherlands employees come to the office for collaboration and socialising and work from home to focus (except CLT members and branch staff). ING pays €45 a month toward working-from-home costs.
Source: careers.ing.com, Benefits in the Netherlands
How many people work at ING?
On average 62,770 full-time-equivalent employees in 2025, 15,280 of them in the Netherlands. Total turnover was 9%.
Source: Form 20-F 2025
Who is ING's CEO?
Steven van Rijswijk, CEO and chair of the Executive Board since July 2020.
Source: Form 20-F 2025
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