Akra Hotels, a subsidiary of BHM, ranked first in Turkey in the Great Place to Work® Turkey 2023 Best Workplaces for Women™ Large Companies Category prepared by Great Place to Work®, the global authority in workplace culture, supporting women's employment and providing equal opportunities for women in all areas of business life. It once again crowned its practices of recognizing human values.
Since the beginning of 2023, Akra Hotels has been sensitive to gender equality and women's empowerment in employment with its structure, actions, and employment facts by being entitled to KAGİDER's Equal Opportunity Model (FEM) certificate and being among the signatories of the United Nations' Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs). It has been registered in the eyes of national and international public opinion.
In 2023, Akra Hotels was honored with the Great Place To Work® Lifelong Learning™ Special Award, the title of Turkey's Best Employer ™ in the large companies category, and subsequently in September, the title of Europe's Best Employer™. Holding a challenging record in this field, Akra Hotels has elevated its success in creating an outstanding workplace culture based on trust, fairness, and equal opportunities, securing the first place in the Best Workplaces for Women™ Large Companies Category in Turkey.
Achieving the title of Great Place To Work® Best Workplaces For Women™ requires being able to successfully implement policies that consider equality of opportunity, justice, and merit for male and female employees and support women's employment in all areas such as recruitment, training, career support, talent management, feedback monitoring. Companies listed in the Best Workplaces For Women™ showcase their exceptional workplace experience for female employees, proving that they outperform standard companies in terms of equal opportunities, fairness, and meritocracy by successfully adhering to these challenging criteria.
Group Human Values Director İbrahim Hakan YILMAZ made a statement on behalf of Akra Hotels, which succeeded in being the first in Turkey in 2023 after coming second in the Best Workplaces For Women™ Large Companies Category in 2022. " As Akra Hotels, we are committed to implementing policies based on equality of opportunity, merit, trust, and justice. We have done so and are working to ensure that a corporate culture that supports these principles is ingrained. To support this, we continue our efforts to increase women's employment, enhance women's effective roles in management levels, and to empower women, which we hope will inspire our sector and set a good example. In this regard, our Akra Hotels 2023-25 Human Values Strategic Plan and Goals emphasize sustainability, corporate responsibility, and women's empowerment, Additionally, it includes promoting fair treatment, increasing women's representation, empowering women in leadership roles, encouraging their personal and professional development, diversity-equality-participation.
An equal and bright future is possible with the active participation of women in all areas of life, especially in the business world, by ensuring equal opportunities and fair human values practices. We are honored to have crowned the valuable outcomes of our work towards fulfilling our responsibility to shape the future of our company and create added value to our society with these achievements. "We congratulate and thank all our Akra Hotels employees who contributed."
Great Place to Work® Turkey 2023 Best Workplaces for Women™ Large Companies Category list can be accessed at the following address: