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Toyota Motor Corporation vs Volkswagen Group: headquarters, benefits and pay compared

Toyota Motor Corporation is headquartered in Toyota City, Japan; Volkswagen Group in Wolfsburg, Germany. Volkswagen Group has more employees (662,942 vs 390,927).

Toyota Motor Corporation vs Volkswagen Group in numbers

Toyota Motor CorporationVolkswagen Group
—HQ size≈305K sq ft
390,927Employees662,942
4.9%Turnover6.6%
—Median pay—
—Revenue per employee—

From each company's annual report or proxy statement; fiscal years differ — see each profile. — = not published. Revenue per employee is calculated by eciffo.

Toyota Motor Corporation headquartersToyota Motor CorporationToyota City, Japan

Toyota's head office still shares its site with the car plant it opened in 1938, on what was once a barren plain called Ronchigahara.

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Headquarters

Head Office & Technical Center site
2,725,000 m² of land (≈ 29.3 million sq ft)
People on the Head Office site
23,479 (Mar 31, 2026)
Head Office main building
Opened 2005
Former Head Office
Completed 1960
Plano architect
Corgan (developer KDC, builder Austin Commercial)
Plano campus size
2.1 million sq ft (≈ 195,100 m²) on 100 acres
Plano opened
July 6, 2017
Plano certification
LEED Platinum · 8.8 MW solar, 20,000+ panels

Benefits

  • Days off (Japan)121 daysAnnual holidays in FY2025 for office and engineering hires, with full two-day weekends, Golden Week, summer and New Year breaks, plus paid and special leave.
  • Paid leave used (Japan)90.4%Share of annual paid leave actually taken in FY2026 (union-member average). Unused days carry over for up to two years.
  • Childcare leave (Japan)Until age 2Childcare leave until a child turns two, plus 15 days a year for a sick or injured child (20 days for two or more), available until the child is 18.
  • Shorter hours (Japan)Until 18Reduced working hours for parents until a child reaches 18, plus the Free Time & Location (FTL) program for remote work and a flextime system.
  • Welfare plan (Japan)Cafeteria planA choose-your-own benefits plan, home-ownership support, an employee shareholding association and savings plans; dormitories and company housing, sports facilities and resorts.

Themes

#Solar power#Famous architects#Free counseling#Back-up child care#Asia

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Volkswagen Group headquartersVolkswagen GroupWolfsburg, Germany

A listed 13-storey office building from 1959 on the Mittelland Canal, stripped to its concrete frame and given 1,200 new windows — for a company whose staff work a 35-hour week.

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Headquarters

Architect (revitalization)
Gewers Pudewill
Area
28,300 m² (≈ 304,618 sq ft)
Completed
1959 · revitalized 2016
Construction
2013 – 2016
Office lighting
Kardorff Ingenieure
Shell works
Georg Göbel GmbH (2014–2016)

Benefits

  • Working week35 hoursSet by collective agreement; flexitime and trust-based working hours.
  • Paid leave30 daysFor employees under the framework agreement, plus the whole day off on Dec 24 and Dec 31.
  • Mobile working6 am–10 pmAgree remote days with your manager and spread hours between 6 am and 10 pm; the extent is stated in each job description.
  • Company pensionPaid by VWVolkswagen finances the basic pension and the first contributory pension; employees can add more by salary deferral.
  • Time asset bondRetire earlySave pay into a time-asset account and take paid leave right before retirement age.

Themes

#Europe

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