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Philips Headquarters & offices · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Philips · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Philips swapped a 21-storey tower for a renovated 1970s school building, with carpets woven from old fishing nets and a beehive in the garden.
The new Amsterdam headquarters, the perks and 135 years of offices from a small lamp factory in Eindhoven — then the pay. Every number from Philips' annual report, newsroom, careers site and the architect.
- 19,810 m²floor area of the new HQ (≈ 213,233 sq ft)
- 20 daysa year to work from another location
- 15% offPhilips stock for employees
- 66,401employees (FTE), end of 2025
Sources: Annual Report 2025 (Form 20-F) · philips.com press release, Oct 16, 2025 · careers.philips.com · V8 Architects project page
Companies / Netherlands / Health technology / Philips
THE NEW HEADQUARTERS · PHILIPS CENTER · 2025
A 1970s building in Amsterdam's Zuidas, stripped to its frame and rebuilt
Philips chose to rent and renovate rather than build new. V8 Architects returned a 1970s building — designed as an office, later used as a school — to office use: five floors around a central stair, each with its own character and colours, a mix of quiet rooms and open meeting areas, and a biodiverse rooftop garden. The carpets are woven from discarded fishing nets, the walls hold reused insulation, and outside there are fruit trees, nesting places and a beehive.
- 19,810 m² (≈ 213,233 sq ft)
- Floors of about 3,000 m² each
- Design: V8 Architects
- Landscape: Felixx
- Parking for 400 bicycles
- Opened by Queen Máxima, Oct 2025
Philips Center, Amsterdam
V8 Architects rebuilt a 1970s office building at Prinses Irenestraat 59 as Philips' headquarters, opened in October 2025; Keijsers Interiors fitted it out.
Facts: philips.com press release (Oct 16, 2025) · philips.nl news article (May 19, 2025) · careers.philips.com blog (Jul 30, 2025) · V8 Architects project page “Philips Headquarters” · Keijsers Interiors project page.
Amsterdam and Eindhoven
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Philips Center (headquarters) | Prinses Irenestraat 59, 1077 WV Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Registered address | High Tech Campus 52, 5656 AG Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| Philips Museum (the 1891 factory) | Emmasingel 31, 5611 AZ Eindhoven, Netherlands |
Source: Annual Report 2025 (Form 20-F) · Philips Museum website · See them on the map ↓
Source: V8 Architects project page · Keijsers Interiors project page · philips.com and philips.nl newsroom (2019, 2025)
Office tour videos
Benefits (Netherlands)
Up to 20 days a year from another location, including abroad.
Employees can buy Philips stock at a 15% discount.
Plus a wide range of other deals and discounts.
Collective raises on Dec 1, 2024 and Sep 1, 2025 under the 2024–2026 collective agreement.
Full salary during additional partner leave (collective agreement 2024).
A personal training budget in 2025 and 2026, for skills training or career coaching.
Paid time off and free resources to care for family members with serious health conditions.
Pension schemes with company contributions, plus paid volunteer time off.
Source: careers.philips.com/nl/en/benefits · philips.nl press release on the new CAO (Dec 3, 2024). Vacation days are set by the collective agreement and are not listed on these pages.
Why people stay: what Philips itself describes
Five low, wide floors joined by a central stair instead of a tower with lifts — to make teams bump into each other.
Request up to 20 days a year to work from another location, including abroad, around booked time off.
Unlimited LinkedIn Learning and Philips University courses, plus an annual personal training budget.
A company-wide gig system encourages people to take on short projects with other teams.
Philips says its leaders see mentoring as “a privilege” and part of developing talent.
The new office was designed from input of colleagues worldwide, gathered in workshops, surveys and observations.
Source: careers.philips.com (Benefits, Netherlands; blog “Our all-new Amsterdam HQ”, Jul 30, 2025) · philips.nl news article, May 19, 2025
Who works here
employees in FTEs (Dec 31, 2025)
in the Netherlands
countries with a Philips presence
women on the 14-member Executive Committee
Source: Annual Report 2025 (Form 20-F), Employees and Executive Committee
Pay at Philips
The full cost to Philips, including base salary, social security, benefits and incentives. The CEO's pay was 83 times this. The average cost per employee (FTE) was €99,667.
Source: Annual Report 2025 (Form 20-F), Remuneration report
Philips doesn't publish pay by age.
Office history: from a lamp factory on the Emmasingel to a renovated school in Amsterdam
- 1891 A small light-bulb factory on the Emmasingel, Eindhoven
Gerard Philips and his father Frederik founded Philips & Co. in Eindhoven in 1891 and began making incandescent light bulbs on the Emmasingel. The old lamp factory still stands: it is a listed building, now wrapped in a glass gallery as the Philips Museum.
Source: philips.com “Our history” · “135 years of Philips” (May 13, 2026) · Philips Museum, “The Old Lamp Factory”
The Philips Museum, in the 1891 factory on the Emmasingel, Eindhoven · Michielverbeek / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1914 NatLab, the research laboratory
Philips opened its research laboratory, known as NatLab, in 1914, led by Dr Gilles Holst. Its X-ray work became the origin of Philips' health technology business.
Source: philips.com “Our history”
NatLab, Strijp, Eindhoven · Rosemoon / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1921 De Lichttoren — the Light Tower
Built in 1921 on the same street, the building got its landmark tower, where lamps were left burning for endurance tests and lit up Eindhoven. It was a lamp factory until the 1960s and used by Philips until the late 1990s; it was redeveloped in 2009.
Source: Philips Museum news, “De Lichttoren”
De Lichttoren, Eindhoven, 2003 · Lempkesfabriek / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1998 To Amsterdam: Rembrandt Tower, Amstelplein 1
In the first half of 1998 part of the Board of Management moved from Eindhoven to Amsterdam. The annual report for 1998 gives the Rembrandt Tower as the principal executive office. Philips then had 233,686 employees.
Source: Form 20-F for 1998 (filed Mar 1999) · Form 20-F for 2000
Rembrandt Tower, Amsterdam, 2019 · Ceescamel / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2001–02 Breitner Center, Amstelplein 2
By the annual report for 2001 the executive offices had moved next door, to the Breitner Center. Philips later described it as a 21-storey tower.
Source: Form 20-F for 2001 (filed May 2002) · careers.philips.com blog (2025)
Breitner Tower, Amsterdam · Luijt at Dutch Wikipedia (Original text: J.M. Luijt) / CC BY 2.5 nl · Wikimedia Commons - 2020 Eindhoven: from the Boschdijk to High Tech Campus
The Benelux head office moved from the Boschdijk to buildings HTC-51 and HTC-52 on High Tech Campus, which Philips founded. Philips rents 116,095 m² in 13 buildings there for more than 5,500 employees; High Tech Campus 52 is today its registered address.
Source: philips.nl press release, Feb 22, 2019 · Annual Report 2025 (Form 20-F)
High Tech Campus Eindhoven, 2013 · Microtoerisme / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2025 Philips Center, Prinses Irenestraat 59
The first employees moved into the renovated building in Amsterdam's Zuidas in May 2025. Queen Máxima officially opened it on October 16, 2025 by symbolically activating “the building's heartbeat”.
Source: philips.nl news, May 19, 2025 · philips.com press release, Oct 16, 2025 · Annual Report 2025
Philips Center, 2025 · Photo: Aiste Rakauskaite / V8 Architects
Map: how the headquarters moved
Two cities, two short streets: the Emmasingel in Eindhoven, where it all began, and Amsterdam, where the head office has moved three times since 1998 — from the Amstelplein towers to the Zuidas.
- 1 · 1891Emmasingel 31, Eindhoven — The first lamp factory, now the Philips Museum
- 2 · 1921De Lichttoren, Emmasingel, Eindhoven — Lamp factory with the test tower
- 3 · 1998Rembrandt Tower, Amstelplein 1, Amsterdam — First Amsterdam head office
- 4 · 2001–02Breitner Center, Amstelplein 2, Amsterdam — Head office in a 21-storey tower
- 5 · 2020High Tech Campus 52, Eindhoven — Benelux head office; registered address
- 6 · 2025Philips Center, Prinses Irenestraat 59, Amsterdam — Today's headquarters in the Zuidas
Addresses: Form 20-F (1998, 2001, 2025) · Philips Museum website · philips.nl press release (2019)
What Philips does
Philips began in 1891 making light bulbs. Today it calls itself a health technology company: imaging and image-guided therapy for hospitals, patient monitoring and informatics, and personal health products such as shavers and oral care.
Three segments: Diagnosis & Treatment, Connected Care, and Personal Health.
Where the money came from · sales by segment, 2025 (EUR)
Source: Annual Report 2025 (Form 20-F), Sales by segment
Source: Annual Report 2025 (Form 20-F), Performance summary · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
€17.4B → €17.8B
77,233 → 66,401
Calendar years, euros. Sales: SEC XBRL data from Philips' Form 20-F filings (latest reported figure for each year; earlier years were restated after divestments). Employees: FTEs at year-end, Annual Report 2025. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management and the Executive Committee. Joined Philips in 2010.
CEO until October 15, 2022.
Founders: Gerard Philips and his father, Frederik Philips (1891).
Source: Annual Report 2025 (Form 20-F) · philips.com “Our history”
Philips: questions people ask
Where is Philips' headquarters?
At the Philips Center, Prinses Irenestraat 59, 1077 WV Amsterdam, in the Zuidas business district. Philips' registered address is High Tech Campus 52 in Eindhoven.
Source: Annual Report 2025 (Form 20-F)
When did Philips move into its new headquarters?
The first employees moved in in May 2025, and Queen Máxima officially opened the building on October 16, 2025.
Source: philips.nl news, May 19, 2025 · philips.com press release, Oct 16, 2025
Who designed Philips' new headquarters?
V8 Architects transformed the 1970s building, which had been designed as an office and later used as a school. Felixx designed the landscape. Inside, Philips' own lead architect for design and workplace, Henriette Weiss, shaped the workplace with input from employees.
Source: V8 Architects project page · careers.philips.com blog (2025)
How big is the Philips headquarters?
About 19,810 m² (≈ 213,233 sq ft), with floors of more than 3,000 m² each. Philips describes five floors of workspace and a rooftop garden.
Source: V8 Architects project page · careers.philips.com blog (2025)
Why did Philips move its headquarters from Eindhoven to Amsterdam?
Philips was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. In the first half of 1998 part of the Board of Management moved to Amsterdam, first to the Rembrandt Tower and later to the Breitner Center on the Amstelplein. Eindhoven remains a major R&D site and the registered address.
Source: Form 20-F for 1998 and 2001 · Annual Report 2025
Can you visit Philips' first factory?
Yes. The 1891 lamp factory at Emmasingel 31 in Eindhoven is now the Philips Museum, open to the public with tickets.
Source: Philips Museum website
What benefits does Philips offer in the Netherlands?
Up to 20 days a year working from another location, Philips shares at a 15% discount, up to 60% off Philips products, a company pension scheme, a personal training budget, and full pay during additional partner leave.
Source: careers.philips.com/nl/en/benefits · CAO press release, Dec 3, 2024
How many people work at Philips?
66,401 full-time equivalents at the end of 2025 (65,340 people by headcount). The largest countries are the US (15,832), India (8,150), the Netherlands (8,104) and China (6,440).
Source: Annual Report 2025 (Form 20-F)
How much do Philips employees earn?
The median employee's total remuneration cost to Philips was €83,708 in 2025; the average cost per FTE was €99,667. The CEO earned 83 times the median.
Source: Annual Report 2025, Remuneration report
Who is Philips' CEO?
Roy Jakobs, CEO since October 15, 2022. He joined Philips in 2010.
Source: Annual Report 2025 (Form 20-F)
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