NEWS
Cisco among top 10 best places to
work in the UAE
Dubai. Cisco UAE was recognised for its commitment
to creating a workplace that fosters trust, pride and
fairness among its employees.
Shukri Eid, Managing Director, East Region, Cisco
Middle East, said: “Receiving this recognition as one
of the best places to work in the UAE in our first year
of participation is both exciting and a great honour.
“We believe that technology alone doesn’t drive
innovation, people do, which is why we aspire to give
our employees the space, freedom and support to
make amazing things happen.
“Our people and culture remain crucial to our success,
and this recognition provides us with the opportunity
to continue learning, improving and transforming
Cisco UAE into an even greater place to work.”
C
isco has been ranked among the top 10 best places to work
in the UAE, by Great Place to Work (GPTW), a global research,
training and consultancy firm that identifies the best workplaces in
over 50 countries worldwide. The top 25 companies were honoured
at the GPTW annual event, recently held at Jumeirah Zabeel Saray in
The GPTW analyses policies, process and practices in each
participating company along with data obtained from direct
surveys with employees offering a rigorous representation of the
organisation from an employee perspective, and an overall portrait of
the workplace culture.
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Epicor payroll MEA solution assists
interiors company
E
picor has launched a flexible and
responsive payroll solution that has been
custom built to meet the country-specific
employment regulations and business needs
of HR departments across the MEA region.
Built on the Epicor ERP platform, and
recommended for any organisation using
Epicor ERP version 10 or above, Epicor Payroll
MEA helps improve employee experience
and job-satisfaction by providing employees
(including HR) with a self-service portal
where they can make requests – annual
leave, a company loan or time off – and
view all the information that the company
has on file for them. The solution also
significantly reduces the administrative and
legal burden on HR. It provides them with
automated tools for managing requests
from employees, employee contracts, salary
revisions, attendance records, timesheets
and pay slips, all while making sure that the
organisations’ internal processes are in line
with the latest local employment regulations.
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Santosh Patnaik, Strategy Manager at UAE-
based Bond Interiors, said: “Epicor Payroll
MEA, embedded with employee self-service,
has turned our payroll process into a simple
and fast process. A positive experience which
reduces effort on the pay cheque process
and enables us to focus more on human
capital management.”
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