Top Employers Institute recognises organisations around the world that champion the best human resources and people-practices that help not only achieve the company’s bottomline but, above all, enrich its people’s lives. Similarly, Glassdoor determines the Employees’ Choice Award for the Best Places to Work based on employees’ feedback on certain attributes that make the company an excellent workplace.
German software enterprise SAP has been at the helm of innovation and digital transformation, with 77{8bf2b29f36318f0ac46ab1cc03d7035abce669a1cea16c9ed62389a818fa22fd} of the world’s trading volume running on SAP systems, even before the COVID-19 global crisis. Against the pandemic background, the tech giant had quickly developed intelligent solutions to ensure its customers and partners can navigate the fast-evolving and disrupted digital economy.
Most importantly, SAP safeguarded the overall well-being of its employees amidst these unprecedented times by providing digital tools and services, harnessing its business networks, and continuing innovation. From implementing a 100{8bf2b29f36318f0ac46ab1cc03d7035abce669a1cea16c9ed62389a818fa22fd} flexible and trust-based workplace worldwide to engaging its workforce with social organisations through SAP Social Sabbatical, SAP’s exemplary workforce initiatives drive a company culture that is consistently commended by its people and global organisations.
In this article, we look into SAP’s latest employer of choice recognitions from Top Employers Institute and Glassdoor across its offices worldwide.
17 Certifications from Top Employers Institute
Top Employers Institute certifies organisations’ best practices that benefit both company and employee growth. Under the certification programme, recognised Top Employers are given the opportunity to strengthen their brand, benchmark against competition, and utilise connection tools to boost the employer of choice rank.
In January, the tech multinational’s best people practices have been recognised by Top Employers Institute, making SAP a Top Employer in North America and Europe– two of its biggest regions– as well as in 17 countries:
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Israel
- Italy
- Mexico
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Turkey
- the U.S.
Sophie Bieber, Head of Global Employer Branding at SAP, emphasised that SAP’s unique culture is built on trust, respect, purpose, inclusion, and team spirit, as exemplified in the company’s 100{8bf2b29f36318f0ac46ab1cc03d7035abce669a1cea16c9ed62389a818fa22fd} flexible and trust-based workplace. She added:
“We help the world run better — and that includes doing what’s best for our employees.”
Commenting on the multiple recognitions , Namita Gupta-Hehl, Vice President, Global Head of Communications at SAP Enterprise Cloud Services, wrote in LinkedIn:
“Breaking News – SAP has once again been recognised across 17 countries all over the globe as a Top Employer. One of them being Germany. And we’re dedicated to continuing to empower our employees to bring their A-Game and help the world run better!”
5 SAP Markets Recognised by Glassdoor
The German enterprise’s people-centred approach has also been recognised in five countries by Glassdoor, a leading global company that offers insights on employee experience. SAP was one of the Best Places to Work in 2022 in the 14th Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards in the software multinational’s five major markets namely:
- Canada (#9)
- France (#9)
- Germany (#6)
- the U.S. (#42)
- the UK (#19)
During the year-long eligibility period of October 20, 2020 to October 18, 2021, SAP ranked as one of the best places to work in said countries according to employees’ ratings on nine workplace attributes including career opportunities, compensation and benefits, diversity and inclusion, and work-life balance.
SAP Enriching Employees’ Lives and the Society
As a truly global and inclusive organisation, SAP strongly values collaboration and encourages its employees to live a purposeful life by extending their expertise outside SAP through CSR initiatives. One example of which is the SAP Social Sabbatical, which recently celebrated its decade-long existence on the same month SAP joined other organisations worldwide to celebrate the International Day of Education proclaimed by United Nations General Assembly.
SAP Social Sabbatical leverages the company’s employees’ skills in delivering pro bono consulting and world-changing solutions to social sector organisations. What started as an initiative to address the education crisis in 2012 has now expanded to helping organisations pursue zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality.
Some of the remarkable partnerships SAP has created through the SAP CSR initiative include a collaboration with Washington-based PYXERA Global, which engaged 1,371 SAP employees to work with 453 nonprofit and social enterprise clients across 52 countries to help solve pressing global challenges. SAP also partnered with an Indian nonprofit, Youth4Jobs, to support the organisations’ goal of providing equal opportunities for education and employment for youth with disabilities.
