Sacombank wins “Best Companies to Work for in Asia” award for third time
Vietnamese private lender Sacombank has been named one of the “Best Companies to Work for in Asia” for the third straight year at the recent HR Asia Awards.
Sacombank has been named as one of the “Best Companies to Work for in Asia” and also won a special HR Asia Digital Transformation Award at the recent HR Asia Awards. (Photo courtesy of the bank)
HCM City (VNA) – Vietnamese private lender Sacombank hasbeen named one of the “Best Companies to Work for in Asia” for the thirdstraight year at the recent HR Asia Awards.
The bank also won a special HR Asia Digital Transformation Award this year.
The HR Asia’s “Best Companies to Work for in Asia” award is a prestigiousinternational award presented annually by HR Asia, the premier magazine onhuman resources in Asia, which assesses and recognises businesses withoutstanding HR policies, attractive remuneration packages and exemplary workingenvironments in the region.
For this year’s theme "Honouring Diversity, Equity and Inclusion," HRAsia adopted the Total Engagement Assessment Model to survey the satisfactionlevel of Sacombank’s employees based on three factors: Core (strategy andstructure), Self (individual), and Group (collective).
Sacombank’s scores in all three criteria are much higher than the industryaverage.
Sacombank has achieved remarkable success by winning the special award,“HR Asia Digital Transformation Awards”, which recognises companies that haveshifted the traditional employee experience interaction to a highly interactiveand personalised digital platform that improves workplace culture andengagement.
Since 2020 Sacombank has collaborated with partners to deploy SAP SuccessFactors,a leading suite of cloud-based talent management and human capital managementsoftware.
The system has effectively served its digitisation of human resource managementactivities, helped it analyse and exploit maximum data from the system so as topromptly alert the personnel situation and perfect its personnel mechanisms andpolicies, contributing to fostering digital transformation.
Sacombank goes beyond just focusing on professional development for employeesby offering many flexible welfare and remuneration policies and regularlyorganising activities to improve the quality of life for employees.
It also leads in implementing internal engagement activities and sportsprogrammes that encourage a healthy lifestyle and relieve stress after work.
Winning the “Best Companies to Work for in Asia” and the HR Asia DigitalTransformation Award is an honour and at the same time a testament to thebank’s vision of creating a modern, dynamic and digitised working environmentthat meets employees’ needs and development aspirations./.
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Sacombank has been named as one of the “Best Companies to Work for in Asia” and also won a special HR Asia Digital Transformation Award at the recent HR Asia Awards. (Photo courtesy of the bank) 
