A great place to work
21 April 2016
Fresh from being given Top Employer Europe status in February, a number of ING countries have also recently been declared great places to work.
ING Germany employees show off their Great Place to Work certification
Austria, Germany (including Interhyp), Luxembourg and Spain have all been recognised by the US-based Great Place to Work Institute. The institute analyses feedback from more than 10 million employees in 50 countries representing some 6,000 organisations.
To obtain recognition as a Great Place to Work, employees from each ING country are surveyed and their responses collated to provide an overall ranking.
The announcements in March and April were particularly good news for Luxembourg which topped its category of more than 500 employees. ING was also the top-ranked company in the Luxembourg financial sector. It is the sixth time that they have been recognised.
Tenth time
For ING Germany, it was the tenth time in a row that they received the recognition, earning them a Trust Champion Award in platinum. The Bank came fifth in its category (2,001 to 5,000) employees.
Neighbours Austria, were ranked one place lower in sixth position in their category of 50 to 250 employees. Austria’s ranking was an improvement of one position on last year´s result.
Chief HR Officer Hein Knaapen congratulated the four countries saying the Great Place to Work awards tell a story. “It is a story of ING culture and values, of the Orange Code. We live it and it shows. I am very proud of these achievements,” he said.
Employee satisfaction
ING Germany´s head of Learning and Development Programmes Corinna Vogt said the Great Place to Work competition was an opportunity to receive open and honest feedback from employees and understand how satisfied they are with ING as an employer. It is also, she said, a chance to compete with the best employers in the German market to reflect on ING’s strengths and weaknesses.
ING Austria’s Martina Bischinger added it was a pleasant surprise to receive such a ranking given the Bank had been busy making the transition to a full-service bank. The recognition, she said, was not just a reward for the efforts made in recent months or years, but part of an overall mandate to promote workplace culture topics.
In a different set of employer excellence awards, it was announced in February that all ING entities in Europe were now classified as top employers. Apart from the European-wide classification, Spain, Poland, France, Belgium and the UK were all individually named as top employers.