Sabinet Online has been named among SA's top 10 companies to work for and the leader of the "Electronic, IT, Telecommunication" category in the Deloitte & Touche/Financial Mail "SA's best company to work for" competition.
The 20 winners of Deloitte & Touche Human Capital Corporation's survey, held in association with Financial Mail, were announced last week at an awards ceremony at the Sandton Sun & Towers Intercontinental. The overall winner was Absa.
Gerhard Kemp, MD of Sabinet Online, says the company is extremely pleased to be ranked among SA's Top 20 Companies To Work For 2002, which include prominent financial and IT institutions such as Absa, SA Breweries, Wesbank, Rand Merchant Bank, FNB Corporate and SCMB.
"A total of 85 companies took part in the competition, with Sabinet Online being the smallest entrant this year."
[VIDEO]Kemp says the survey has become definitive for ranking South African employers of choice. A company's performance is ranked across job satisfaction, trust, leadership, communication, training, change management, rewards, welfare and performance management.
Kemp says Sabinet Online's two major strengths are its staff and its exceptional relationship with a long-established client base. The award gives recognition to this high calibre group of people, he says.
"Sabinet Online's staff are mainly IT people with library and information backgrounds, who provide services in two operating divisions - corporate, and academic and library.
"Our staff members are focused; extremely professional but friendly, and work well together in an environment created to make people feel at home, within a firm but fair management policy."
Kemp says all employees are consulted on business-related matters which, together with a creative incentive scheme, gives them a sense of being valued as individuals.
"Both clients and international and other visitors regularly comment on our positive staff interaction and the warmth of the company. The fact that 28 out of 55 employees have been with Sabinet Online for more than five years attests to a company culture that works," he says.
Sabinet Online says that over the past 19 years, it has established itself as an expert in facilitating electronic access to information for users in business and industry, and to academic, business and government libraries.
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