Globe Hailed As Top Company To Work For In Asia At Asia Corporate Excellence And Sustainability Awards 2014

Globe Telecom was hailed as Top Company to Work for In Asia at the Asia Corporate Excellence and Sustainability (ACES) Awards 2014, a testament to its efforts to create the most wonderful experience possible for each of its over 6,000 employees nationwide.

ACES recognizes successful companies and individuals in Asia across two main domains: leadership and corporate social responsibility. The awards value services and achievements of businesses, both large and small, national and international, for their contributions to their communities and the world.

The Top Company to Work for in Asia awards are presented to five companies that take on a people centric approach and demonstrate strong commitment towards employee empowerment and enrichment. The winning companies show advocacy for investment in people, recognition and retention, improving employee’s job satisfaction, practices fair communication, and promote work life balance. The awarded companies have low attrition rate, houses a great pool of talents, and have a practice of knowledge sharing among employees and stakeholders.

“We are proud to be selected as among the best companies to work for in the region. We are excited for our employees because they have made this possible. We will keep improving our working relationships and engagement programs because happy employees will naturally push for boundless company achievements.

Our Circle of Happiness philosophy at Globe Telecom is simple; happy employees who understand their value and contribution create more opportunities for better products and services which our customers enjoy. Happy customers circle back towards increased growth and revenues for Globe making our shareholders happy as well. This is our basic philosophy in improving our employees’ work experience,“ said Renato Jiao, Globe Chief Human Resource Officer.

Globe partners with employees in building a workplace that is dynamic, entrepreneurial, collaborative and innovative through a number of initiatives. The most notable of which is the Customer First Circle (CFC) program wherein employees help the organization deliver a superior customer experience through completion of hundreds of customer-centric projects since its inception in 2009. For instance, the Enterprise Group’s Hot Fudge Team, Project of the Year winner for 2014, came up with a device to reduce data network equipment-related outages by 50 percent to promote greater network reliability.

Globe also brings innovation through iSpark, an idea pitching competition designed to unleash creativity, and support an environment where employees enjoy working across teams and work on their big ideas.

To cultivate Globe Telecom’s culture of giving greater appreciation and recognition for one another, Globe introduced Kudos, a fun and easy way for employees to say thank you and recognize wonderful actions following its Globe Way Values. Kudos is given anytime, anywhere.

Globe likewise, believes in nurturing leaders across all levels. Conversations on improving work relationships and performance are facilitated through “Everyday Leadership”. Globe has an integrated leadership program called iLead for key executives, middle managers and young entrants in the succession pipeline. Careers@Globe gives access to other employees to improve themselves and help them build a career. Globe University gives access to training and various professional courses to all.

Realizing that work environment makes a difference in work satisfaction, the Globe Tower was built with an open workspace and wireless facilities to allow greater collaboration among employees. Google helps employees reach out to each other easily and faster.

With a 97 percent participation rate in the Employee Satisfaction Survey, Globe enjoyed a 73 percent over-all satisfaction index from employees. This stable uptrend of the metric over the years can be attributed to the wide range of programs on culture, leadership and well-being.

Early this year, Globe was recognized as Asia’s Best Employer Brand by the 5th Asia’s Best Employer Brand Awards and Best Workforce by the 1stSustainable Business Awards Philippines. It also won in the Integrated Communication Category of the ASEAN Corporate Sustainability Summit and Awards.