Akra Hotels, a subsidiary of BHM, has succeeded in entering the Europe Best Workplaces™ List prepared by Great Place to Work®, the global authority in workplace culture, in 2023, showing that it has created a great workplace culture based on trust and justice. Europe's Best Employer™ Award, given at the European Convention Center in Luxembourg on Thursday evening, September 21, 2023, was presented to BHM Group Human Values Director İbrahim Hakan YILMAZ.
Akra Hotels, which received the Great Place to Work® Turkey “A Great Workplace Certificate” at the beginning of 2023, the title of Turkey's Best Employer™ in the 500-1000 Employees category in May, and also the Lifelong Learning™ Special Award; Now it has taken its success one step further by entering the List of Europe's Best Employers™ in the Large Companies category.
Great Place To Work® measures companies' experience in creating a great workplace for everyone with its Trust Index™ survey and Culture Audit™ for All methodology, which focuses on employees' workplace experience. Accordingly, Akra Hotels is among the top 20 companies in Europe's Best Employers™ List in the Large Companies Category, this list is prepared with data obtained from the Trust Index™ survey, which includes 2.6 million employees from more than 3 thousand companies from 37 different countries, which are included in their country's best employer list. Akra Hotels has successfully achieved a place on this list.
Sharing his evaluations about the Award, BHM Group Human Values Director İbrahim Hakan YILMAZ said, "We are happy and honored to be included in the List of Europe's Best Employers™ prepared by Great Place to Work® in the Large Companies Category in 2022 and 2023. In our corporate development journey, which we continue with firm steps, we know that our employees are the source of all our success.
In our business, where we serve people with people and create added value with people, our employees are the most essential element of guest satisfaction. With this awareness, we believe that providing our employees with a fair, safe, peaceful, and human dignity working environment, as well as providing a work environment where they have and benefit from equal opportunities, equal opportunities, and equal rights, is very important in making the success of our company sustainable.
As Akra Hotels, we owe our vision of continuing to be an innovative and respected hotel chain powered by local values and our success in realizing a fair, reliable, and sensitive working environment in our workplaces to the dedication of our employees and their embrace of our culture. "We will continue to give our priority to our employees and achieve many more successes with our employees," he said.
Congratulations on the organizations on the 2023 Europe's Best Employers™ List. Great Place To Work® CEO Michael C. Bush said, "The organizations on the list are exemplary for companies in all markets worldwide. "By building trust-based institutions for their employees, they have achieved great work, new ideas, and stronger business results," he said.
Full Europe's Best Employers™ List is available at: https://www.greatplacetowork.com/europe-2023
Europe's Best Employer ™ Award, which was given at the European Convention Center in Luxembourg on Thursday evening, September 21, 2023, is also a recognition of the work done by Akra Hotels, a Turkish Hotel Management brand, to increase the qualified workforce in the tourism sector and to improve the quality of life of people working in this field. It strongly indicates investments' efforts to set an excellent example.