HCL tops the sixth Hewitt Best Employer in India. The result released on Thursday is significant at a time when employee retrenchment is at its height due to global slowdown.
In India the study was conducted among 230 organisations. It is part of the larger Hewitt Best Employers in Asia study, which covered Australia, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore. To generate the result the company received opinions from more than 46,000 employees representing a workforce of over 8 lakh people. The Hewitt Best Employers study is now in its eighth year, having begun in 2001.
The winners according to Hewitt Best Employers project lead Sonali Chatterjee, are those companies which despite the downturn have used their workforce more productively and yet met all the goals. The 25 winner companies have scored mostly on the score for ?employee engagement?. It has gone up to 88% as compared with 82 % in 2007 and 76%
in 2003.
Chatterjee said, ?During the audit process for the study, we found that the CEOs believe that employees can work harder to achieve better results in the economic downturn and it is the right moment for them to win over their competitors. Undoubtedly becoming a Hewitt Best Employer means a lot.?
According to the sudy 81% employees said that future career opportunities at their organisation look good, compared with 64% among those lower down the list.
The independent judging panel was chaired by Trai former chairman Nripendra Misra, and included AZB and Partners? managing partner Zia Mody and IIM-Bangalore director Pankaj Chaudhary.