11 December 2007

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Elica’s a great place to work – and it’s official!!


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We’ve always said that Elica is a great place to work, and just recently the company’s employees have proved us right.

The Italian business newspaper Sole 24 Ore has published the results of its “Best Workplaces Italia 2008” surveywhich, over the year 2007, through questionnaires completed by employees and the compilation of specific details relative to the company environment and atmosphere, examined  around a hundred Italian companies, all selected from amongst the top businesses in the country.

Using this information, the Best Workplaces surveywas able to produce the Great Place to Work® chart, comprising the best Italian companies to work for.

And Elica came in fourth in this prestigious league: a fantastic result, considering it is the first Italian company on the list, placed after multinationals Google, Coca Cola and Microsoft.

“The people who work for us are the real capital of this company”, said Francesco Casoli, the Elica Group president, and it’s this thinking that lies behind the investments that have been made over the years in Elica employees and their quality of life, both inside and outside the company.

One example of these is the Elica Life* project, where the company, echoing the claim used in their advertising, wanted to concentrate on nourishing a real “hi life” culture.

Elica life* promotes initiatives aimed at employees and their families, such as Elica for Youth, a project designed to help employees’ children with their studies and organise special courses for them.

 “Elica has always seen the importance of investing in young people,” said the Group’s HR Director Marco Scippa, “And with this scheme we wanted to come up with a course that would reflect as closely as possible the reality of our ever-expanding organisation.”

After awarding a study grant in 2006 to all the families with one or more children attending high school, this year Elica sponsored the I am! initiative, a one-week educational trip for 11 to 14-year olds to study English in Malta.

Several Elica suppliers are also involved as partners in the Elica for Youth project, sharing the company’s vision of an education process that has to increasingly take into account the modern world’s international perspective.

To encourage the best possible relationship between employees, and between the employees and the workplace, Elica has also invested in the design of the company’s offices and interior spaces, the basic concepts being “transparency” and “circulation”.

 “We want to create a style of relationship based on partnership and sharing objectives,” explained Mr Scippa. ”We know that an atmosphere that is stimulating and that involves people working together in harmony helps people to grow both inside and outside the company. And that’s good not only for employees but also for the company and the whole geographical area where the company is based.”