DHL EXPRESS HONG KONG AWARDED BY GREAT PLACE TO WORK® INSTITUTE FOR 6TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR

One of the 14 organizations being recognized as the “Best workplaces in Hong Kong™”

DHL Express, the world’s leading express service provider, has been named one of the Best Workplaces in Hong Kong™ 2021 by Great Place to Work® Institute for the sixth consecutive year. 

"It’s particularly heartening to receive the accolade in what has been an extremely challenging year for businesses everywhere. We are truly grateful and proud of our teams, who have risen to the challenge while continuing to support our customers and bolster trade", says Chee Choong Ng, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of DHL Express Hong Kong. 

The methodology behind the Great Place to Work® ranking is highly rigorous where the firm gathers and evaluates employee feedback and recognize companies who have built high-trust, high-performance cultures. This year 50 organizations in Hong Kong participated in the survey. Only 14 organizations have been recognized as the Best Workplaces in Hong Kong™. 

In the past year, DHL Express Hong Kong has maintained its delivery efficiency and speed while practising a high level of safety. The company’s main priority has been in ensuring its people’s health and empower their people to work despite the difficult situation. Among these initiatives include providing personal protection equipment and sanitizer, arranging necessary IT devices to facilitate remote work arrangement, implementing alternate working schedules, providing preventive COVID-19 testing for employees who lived in buildings with infected cases and keeping their employees informed through virtual townhall and bulletins. 

DHL Express continues to invest in leadership development and talent growth programs, including running the Certified International Specialist (CIS) and Certified International Manager (CIM) over the last 10 years. CIS and CIM are a series of training sessions meant to create a powerful sense of community that enable employees to combine best-in-class product knowledge with incomparable service excellence. The global board of management of DHL Express regularly contributes time toward personally facilitating CIS and CIM learning sessions for employees of all levels around the world.

In 2020, DHL Express was ranked one of the Best Workplaces in Asia for the second consecutive year by Great Place to Work®. Since 2014, DHL Express Asia Pacific has received 288 awards for its workplace and corporate culture, and in 2020 alone, the company received a total of 43 awards. 

Great Place to Work®, a global people analytics and consulting firm, assesses the work experience of employees through their certification program every year. In 2020, more than 10,000 organizations participated in the survey process, representing the voices of 10.2 million employees in 92 countries.