The country’s leading telecommunications company Grameenphone has been awarded the “Best Organisation for Workplace and People Development” award in the “Organisational Award” category of the Asian Leadership Awards 2021.
Grameenphone’s efforts to ensure employee wellbeing during COVID-19, focus on nurturing an inclusive workplace, digitalization of HR services, and a unique approach in fostering a learning culture & upskilling effort were highly commended.
Digitalization has been widely promoted in all sectors due to the Covid-19 crisis, and the employees at Grameenphone had taken up the challenge of upskilling and reskilling themselves to serve their 8 Crore+ subscribers better. In 2020, Grameenphone employees spent an average of 58 hours learning on critical competency areas of Digital Marketing, UX, Product Management, Cloud & Virtualisation, Customer Facing IT, etc., from renowned global platforms such as Coursera, Linux Academy, Red Hat and Udacity
The Asian Leadership Awards is recognized in the industry for patronizing and promoting the value of business leadership in Asia. Since 2011, the award has been inspiring hundreds of organizations and professionals to go the extra mile to ensure the healthy and consistent growth of the workforce.
