Hays Ranked One of the 2020 Best Workplaces in Asia by Great Place to Work®

Great Place to Work^®, ranked Hays as number four on the 2020 Best Workplaces in Asia list under the category of ‘Best Multi-national Workplaces in Asia’. More than 2.2 million employees participated in the survey studies that covered eight 8 Asia-regions and countries where Great Place to Work is represented.

The prestigious ranking comes in addition to Hays Singapore being ranked number one in the ‘small workplace’ category of the 5th annual Singapore Best Workplaces™ study, held by Great Place to Work^® last year; as well as Hays Greater China being awarded the titles of “Best Workplace™ for Wom-en” and as one of the “Best Workplaces™” in Greater China 2019.

Results of the studies showed that employees around the world want a high-trust culture, but the way forward for organisations has regional variations. In Asia, the Best Workplaces stand out by creating sustainability when it comes to work and life, where employees can experience balance and deeply hu-man relationships on the job. The survey statement that most strongly predicted a Best Workplace ex-perience in Asia overall was “people are encouraged to balance their work life and their personal life.”

Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work^® said, "We congratulate the 2020 Best Workplaces in Asia for their leadership in building Great Places to Work For All. These companies are global leaders in creating highly inclusive workplaces that are better for business, better for people, and better for the world.”

Speaking on the ranking, Richard Eardley, Managing Director of Hays in Asia said, “We are both honoured and thrilled to have been ranked under the category of ‘Best Multinational Workplaces in Asia’ as part of Great Place to Work’s prestigious Best Workplaces in Asia list 2020. Our philosophy of ‘Opportunity for All’ is truly endorsed by the winning of this title and is testament to the multicultural and diverse workforce we have built. Our success is the result of several fantastic initiatives, including ceiling-breaking leadership development programs, flexible working options and increased support for working parents, that have been instrumental in creating engaged workforces across Asia. In 2020, one of our goals is to further support every individual in our organisation in feeling included, empowered and able to bring their true selves to work – a goal we will be measuring through our annual ‘Your Voice’ employee engagement survey. With the help of our team of highly motivated and passionate people, who live and breathe our company values on a daily basis, we will continue striving to keep Hays as a Great Place to Work.”

Simon Lance, Managing Director for Hays Greater China added, “At Hays, we believe that at the heart of an organisation is its people; and never has this been more important than at times like these, where businesses are facing unprecedented disruptions and challenges. In Greater China, our commitment to take all necessary measures to protect the health and safety of our colleagues, and at the same time, to deliver our services to the high standards our customers would expect of us, is a feat I am extremely proud of. We have been able to enact our business continuity plans and have adapted our ways of working in accordance to the robust and flexible plans we have in place to support our colleagues and customers during uncertainty. It is efforts like these that truly make Hays stand out as a Great Place to Work.”

View the full Best Workplaces in Asia list here.

About Hays

Hays plc (the "Group") is a leading global professional recruiting group. The Group is the expert at re-cruiting qualified, professional and skilled people worldwide, being the market leader in the UK and Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary as-signments. As at 31 December 2019 the Group employed 11,600 staff operating from 266 offices in 33 countries across 20 specialisms. For the year ended 30 June 2019:

•  the Group reported net fees of £1,129.7 billion and operating profit (pre-exceptional items) of £248.8 million;
•  the Group placed around 81,000 candidates into permanent jobs and around 254,000 people into tem-porary assignments;
• 18% of Group net fees were generated in Australia & New Zealand, 27% in Germany, 23% in United Kingdom & Ireland and 32% in Rest of World (RoW);
• the temporary placement business represented 57% of net fees and the permanent placement busi-ness represented 43% of net fees;
• Hays operates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxem-bourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, the UK and the USA

About Great Place to Work^®

Great Place to Work^®, headquartered in Oakland, California, is a global people analytics and consulting firm that helps companies of all sizes produce better business results by focusing on the work experi-ence for every employee—our research shows there’s a clear and direct relationship between employee engagement and financial performance. Over the past 25 years, we have captured the views of more than 100 million employees globally, helping organizations around the world identify and build high-trust, high-performance cultures. Through our certification programs, we recognize outstanding workplaces and produce Fortune’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, as well as a variety of other Best Workplace rankings in the United States and in more than 60 other countries. Everything we do is driven by our mission: to build a better world by helping every organization become a Great Place to Work For All by the year 2030.

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About the Best Workplaces in Asia List

Great Place to Work^® identifies the top organizations that create great workplaces in the Asia and Mid-dle East regions through publishing the annual Best Workplaces in Asia list. The list recognizes compa-nies in three size categories: Small & Medium (20 - 499); Large (500+); and Multinational. To be consid-ered for inclusion, companies must appear on one or more of our national lists in the region, which in-cludes Greater China (covering China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau), India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Sin-gapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka and UAE. Multinational organizations must meet the following require-ments: 1) Have at least 1,000 employees worldwide, with at least 40% (or 5,000) of those employees based outside the headquarters country and 2) Appear on at least two national lists. Multinationals also receive additional credit for their efforts to successfully create an excellent workplace culture in multiple countries in the region. The data used in the calculation of the regional list comes from national lists published in 2019 and early 2020.