By Nojeed Gandour, Correspondent Egypt

Comdata, BSH Electroménager, Société Général Africa Technology Services, ChaabiLLD, Teleperformance, Schindler, Pfizer, MSD Animal Health were certified recently as the Best Places To Work in Morocco for 2021 according to the annual workplace research programme. These companies received outstanding scores as being mission-driven organisations with great leadership and career development opportunities but also made employee health and safety a main priority.

Best Places to Work programme is an international certification programme providing employers in different regions the opportunity to assess their HR practices and learn more about the engagement and satisfaction of their employees and honor those who deliver an outstanding work experience. Despite the global context marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the results illustrated the various initiatives taken by several employers in Morocco to engage and retain their employees and support them remotely. The assessment covered this year a number of topics covering how the companies’ responded to COVID-19 crisis and how well they succeeded in offering flexibility to their employees.

In the ranking, Comdata, the global leader in outsourced call center and customer relations services along with BSH Morocco, part of the international group specialized in the production, sale and installation of household appliances, maintained their first position in the list as the best employers for the year.

According to CEO of Comdata Maroc and Barcelona, Didier Manzari “This is an award that honours and obliges us. This year has been very complicated for our employees, for our industry, for the world. Even if we are, like all companies, customer and business oriented.”

In a joint statement by Managing Director of BSH Morocco Luis Alvarez Gomez de Salazar along with Deputy Managing Director, Mehdi El Boury : “At BSH we are on a mission to constantly improve the working lives of our colleagues. The foundation of our organization is our people. The professional and personal development of all of the team is very important to us, and we make every effort to ensure that everyone working for us feels supported and respected in everything they do.”