There have been umpteen articles written about creating the ideal workplace for millennials. Apart from the usual feast of accelerated job opportunities and exciting rewards, the ask today includes intangibles such as respect, autonomy, trust and empowerment. Job seekers, fresh out of colleges, today look beyond attractive pay packages and timely promotions, and allot ample weightage to ‘soft benefits’ such as office environment and culture.
The question has shifted and evolved beyond Work-Life Balance to Life @ Work. Given that most of us spend a majority of our day at the workplace, it makes sense for companies to introduce employee-friendly perks and policies.
The new-age job-seeker considers office perks and benefits in a big way before accepting an offer. S/he researches about the prospective workplace’s ethos and how their proposed role will add extra worth to their portfolio.
Observing this trend, many organisations started re-strategizing and introducing unconventional people policies. One of the companies that has led by example and reaped huge benefits by offering an unconventional workplace experience to its employees is the RPG Group.
The RPG Group, which comprises KEC International, CEAT Tyres, Zensar Technologies, RPG Life Sciences, Raychem, and RPG Ventures, took the unconventional path and it has proved to be a boon for the conglomerate.
RPG has a diversified portfolio and is growing by leaps and bounds, outperforming its previous 5-year numbers. It is geared towards the future, adopting unconventional and new-age methods to not only do business but also become employee-friendly.
The change started almost a decade ago when the group launched its flagship Group Management Resource (GMR) programme and started hiring from premier institutes. Many of the Group’s employee-friendly policies were recommended by this merry band of young professionals, and have become very popular today.
Unlike many other corporates, employee ideas are not merely recognized and rewarded but also put into a rapid execution cycle. For instance, KEC International’s foray into its solar business was recommended by its Shadow Executive Board. In another one, a group of employees came up with the idea of an e-commerce portal hosting products for senior citizens and this idea was taken up by RPG Ventures. The outcome? The birth of Seniority.in, India’s first experience-store-cum-portal.
With age being no barrier to growth, many teams in the group are led by young employees who are running independent businesses, successfully.
In a bid to inculcate digital as a way of life, RPG encourages employees to inculcate diverse digital skills and certifies them as yellow, brown and black belt. Today, Raychem – its energy products company - is trying to conduct all board meetings on iPad.
The group’s efforts have been rewarded with employees expressing appreciation; most say that they feel motivated to do better and achieve the best.
Here’s how RPG is winning over its employees:
1. Flexi Time: Under this policy, an employee can enter office anytime between 8 am and 11am.
2. Attendance by Default policy: Several group offices allow employees to work without the need for logging in a daily attendance. The system works on trust, with employees recording their leaves online.
3. Follow your Path: Employees can take up different roles within the group across companies and functions. Examples abound of employees moving across functions, or from one group company to another.
4. Incentive: RPG offers attractive incentives to its top performing employees for their contribution.
5. Re-join: RPG’s Boomerang Hire policy has met with huge success with nearly 44 ex-employees joining back into the group in in the last 9 months alone.
With its open work environment and empowering employee policies, the group has steadily built up a credible campus brand across premier institutes across the country. Presently, it is hiring across businesses and this can be your chance to join the RPG family.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join a place that is truly #HappilyUnconventional.
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