ELEKS: A Workplace Culture Built on Trust, Learning, and Teamwork
Country: Poland | Friendly Workplace Recognition: 2022
ELEKS is a Top 100 Global Outsourcing Company, providing expert software engineering and consultancy services for over 30 years.
Its talent pool of over 2,000+ specialists covers niches from custom software development to product design and technology advisory, making it the partner of choice for many of the world’s leading enterprises, SMEs, and technology challengers. ELEKS has 18 development centers and offices in 13 counties and 3 continents, including Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Estonia, Croatia, Great Britain, USA, Canada, Japan and UAE.
Supporting Professional Growth, Employee Well-Being, and Community Involvement
We are pleased to recognize ELEKS as a recipient of the Friendly Workplace® 2022 award. We appreciate its modern, welcoming organizational culture, grounded in open communication with employees and the values of trust, respect, responsibility, and teamwork.
During our visit to the ELEKS office in Krakow, we experienced this welcoming atmosphere firsthand. The thoughtfully designed workspace and, above all, the people we met left a lasting impression on us.
We particularly value the company’s structured approach to employee development in an international environment. Its broad range of training opportunities across different disciplines and experience levels supports specialists in expanding their knowledge and developing their careers.
We also appreciate ELEKS’ attention to employee health and well-being, alongside its approach to supporting work-life balance. These are important areas in our editorial assessment of workplace practices.
The commitment of the company and its employees to social responsibility also deserves recognition, particularly their involvement in relief efforts and volunteering in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Assessment by the MarkaPracodawcy.pl editorial team.
Working at ELEKS
RELATIONS WITH EMPLOYEES
Mission: To empower best talent’s cintinious development for partner’s success through software innovation.
Vision: ELEKS will accelerate software innovation that has a positive impact on global society.
Values:
- Customer focus: customer success is our success
- Innovation: we see innovation as a key component for value creation
- Empowering talent: we encourage the continuous development at all levels in the company to deliver a high quality in all we do
- Commitment and excellence: if you are passionate and responsible about all you do, this is the place for you
- Teamwork: teamwork is a synergy
We are trying to make ELEKS to be truly best place to work. Caring and teamwork have always been the important elements of our Culture.
DEVELOPMENT OF EMPLOYEES
Talent Development
The talent development of our specialists is one of our key priorities. Every ELEKSer gets into a truly international environment from the first day – clients, colleagues from different countries, professional tech talks and edutaining lectures. In ELEKS, we have a mature culture of mentorship and long-life learning. Soft skills assessments, training courses, certifications, and conference participation are a small part of our talent development initiatives. Every specialist can start learning a new language. We propose a variety of them: English, German, Spanish, Japanese – you can choose any!
Our Centers of Excellence help professionals to develop, we create a unique personal development plan, identify gaps in knowledge, provide a mentor who leads and prompts the path of development and provide cross-functional trainings. We also give the opportunity to join numerous trainings, programs and events for professional growth and cultivation. You always know in which direction to move forward!
Sense of Meaning
ELEKS is a company where you always have the ability to participate in meaningful CSR activities. As a socially responsible company, we are implementing our projects in the frame of the Sustainable Development Goals, which are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives of people everywhere. We are concentrating our efforts around certain SDGs to deliver the best effectiveness and good to society, communities, and our planet.
You can become a mentor or trainer to younger talents within a company. You can help people in need in plenty of different ways with company support!
After the terrifying invasion of russia to Ukraine, ELEKS bravely stood as massive support to Ukrainian Armed Forces and our partner charity fund “Come Back Alive”. Our specialists organized a huge movement to help Ukrainian victory and help people who suffered from the war inside the company.
Fair Reward
In ELEKS, we believe in fair rewards. We want everyone treated depending on their impact. We continuously work with different independent consultants to set market-level salaries for all our specialists.
ELEKS has unique long-term incentive programs. Every specialist has exclusive opportunities to become a company co-owner and get company shares!
We recognize exceptional talent and technical expertise.
We praise loyalty and talent development with company shares.
We offer the opportunity to buy company shares at a discounted rate or convert the yearly bonus into them.
Recognition & feedback
We are a friendly people-centric environment, everyone is respected in ELEKS, and everyone can propose improvements, left comments or feedback on any matter.
We are using leading employee engagement and people analytics platforms, which provide every specialist with a safe (anonymous) opportunity to share their working experience, letting the company and managers know which aspects of company life may require attention.
Social Benefits
In the company, we propose paid vacation and sick leaves, additional paternity and maternity leaves, and student and donors’ day off. We also offer material aid from the company in difficult situations and psychological support programs. Depending on geography and type of contract, ELEKS specialists can use voluntary health insurance services and make boosted pension contributions. ELEKS is a remote-friendly company with great attention to wellbeing. We offer flexible working hours, a few offices and hubs worldwide, remote and hybrid work formats.
WORK-LIFE -BALANCE
Psychological and physical well-being of ELEKS team members are our priority. Preaching care culture in our organization, we put people centric approach as a core of our operations. Work should be balanced with life activities, hobbies, sports, etc. That’s what we ask ELEKSers about, to care about themselves and prioritize their health and well-being and we provide them with support on its way. As part of our CSR roadmap, we are proposing different charity sports activities, when our specialists can donate by running or riding bicycle and swimming. Also, competition component is present here as personal result is fixed in Strava and colleagues can track personal and other teammates results there.
HEALTHY WORKPLACE
We all spend a lot of time at work. Work is a part of our life where we express ourselves. In order not to forget that we have one life and not to separate life from work, ELEKS has been doing its best to organize a space where everyone can learn about how to build a life full of well-being, quality and wellness. A Well-being program in ELEKS is the program the primary purpose of which is to support, educate and empower employees and teams, so they will have knowledge, skills, and resources they need to support their mental and physical health. Understanding and caring about mental and physical health, we can help you realize your potential and reduce the risk of developing mental health problems.
We’ve created ELEKS Psychological center to assist our specialists and their families during the war with various consultations and private sessions with psychologists. Art therapy, group sessions, and lectures are included in the Center’s practice to support everyone in need and help prevent the complex effects of stress. Company policy and action were adjusted to protect workers’ health during coronavirus (measures and procedures taken, remote working/shift work, investment in additional tools or equipment, educational activities)
During the Covid period, we tried to create the safest and most comfortable working conditions for our team and adapted our offices at once after the quarantine was canceled.
Use of Hot desk approach
In 2020, our team grew, but we did not expand our office space due to the difficult situation with the COVID-19 pandemic. The introduction of the Hot desk approach will allow us to use our office space more efficiently.
Vaccination
Company provided full vaccination for the ELEKSers in all locations.
AWARDS
Awards or distinctions in the field of HR granted to the company in the last 3 years:
- Best of the Global Outsourcing 100 ‘2022
- TOP 1000 Global Companies in 2022 by Clutch
- Ukraine’s Best Tech Employer 2020 by DOU
- TOP-25 Employeers for Youth 2021 by Stud point
- Family friendly company 2021 by CSR Ukraine
INITIATIVES
Company involvement in initiatives related to:
- labor market education (Partner of external events – job fairs, seminars, publications);
- employee participation in pro-social programs (volunteering) – last 3 years.
ABOUT CSR AT ELEKS
Here at ELEKS, we are proud of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, which began back in 2015. Since then, we have improved as a company in many ways. We encourage our specialists, who are always willing and able to help each other and the community at large, to get involved in teaching initiatives or eco-volunteering.
We believe CSR is the key to shaping our present, and the future we all want to live in. At ELEKS, we stand for people, innovation, teamwork, customer focus, excellence and the common good. We believe that creating opportunities for children, supporting healthcare institutions in Ukraine, investing in education, and contributing to social and environmental well-being – as well as developing communities – is a must. Andriy Krupa, CEO
ELEKS operates with integrity, transparency, mutual respect and cooperation – across all stakeholders, team members, clients, vendors and local community groups. We consider the legal, social and business well-being of our employees to be the cornerstone of our enterprise.
At ELEKS, we are passionate about driving technology innovation. We aim to put technology to work where it can best serve people and the environment.
Our CSR focus areas
ELEKS employees are encouraged to develop and participate in initiatives for community development, fundraising or volunteering.
ELEKS is continuously committed to:
- People
- Innovation
- Teamwork
- Customer focus
- Excellence
- Common good
ELEKS is continuously committed to:
- People
- Innovation
- Teamwork
- Customer focus
- Excellence
- Common good
Our focus is on the following areas:
- Improving opportunities for children
- Supporting healthcare development
- Investing in education and training
- Contributing to social and environmental wellbeing
- Developing professional communities
More details about our CSR focuses and best practices are listed in the CSR Report 2021:
Volunteering during the russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine is described in detailes in the article:
ENG: Volunteers and IT: How does it work? Let’s take ELEKS as an example (ain.ua)
PL: Wolontariat IT: jak to działa? Opowiadamy na przykładzie firmy ELEKS (ain.ua)
