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## Property, plants and equipment 

In the United States, Aegon owns many of the buildings that the company uses in the normal course of its business, primarily as offices. 

Aegon owns 16 offices located throughout the United States with a total square footage of 2.0 million. Aegon also leases space for various offices located throughout the United States under long-term leases with a total square footage of 1.1 million. Aegon’s principal offices are located in Baltimore, Maryland; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Los Angeles, California; St. Petersburg, Florida; Plano & Dallas, Texas; Harrison, New York; Little Rock, Arkansas; Atlanta, Georgia; and Exton, PA. 

Other principal offices owned by Aegon are located in The Hague, the Netherlands; Budapest, Hungary; and Madrid, Spain. Aegon owns its headquarters and leases other offices in the Netherlands (Leeuwarden), the United Kingdom and Canada under long-term leases. Aegon believes that its properties are adequate to meet its current needs. 

## Employees and labor relations 

At the end of 2013, Aegon had 26,981 employees of which were 4,753 agent-employees. Approximately 46% are employed in the Americas, 17% in the Netherlands, 9% in the United Kingdom and 28% in New Markets. 

All of Aegon’s employees in the Netherlands, other than senior management, are covered by collective labor agreements, which are generally renegotiated annually on an industry wide basis. Individual companies then enter into employment agreements with their employees based on the relevant collective agreement. Since its founding, Aegon has participated in collective negotiations in the insurance industry and has based its employment agreements with its employees on the relevant collective agreement. The collective agreements are generally for a duration of one year. Aegon has experienced no significant strike, work stoppage or labor dispute in recent years. 

Under Dutch law, members of the Central Works Council responsible for Aegon in the Netherlands are elected by Aegon the Netherlands’ employees. The Central Works Council has certain defined powers at the level of the Dutch subsidiary company Aegon Nederland N.V., including the right to make non-binding recommendations for appointments to its Supervisory Board and the right to enter objections against proposals for appointments to that Supervisory Board. Moreover, the Central Works Council of Aegon the Netherlands is to be consulted as regards a nomination for appointment pertaining to one seat on the Supervisory Board of Aegon. 

The number of employees per geographical area was: 

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See Note 14 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements of this Annual Report for a description of share-based payments to employees. 

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