Best employers in Asia

Best employers in Asia

JAKARTA (JP): Malaysia and China dominated the list of the top
20 best employers in Asia, each with five companies, according to
a recent survey conducted by human resources consulting firm
Hewitt Associates.

Surprisingly, a company from Indonesia, PT Elegant Textile
Industry, was voted the fifth-best employer after The Portman
Ritz-Carlton, Shanghai, Agilent Technologies and The Ritz-Carlton
Millenia, both in Singapore, and Western Digital, Malaysia.

The survey, which covered 355 companies from eight Asian
countries, was based on interviews and questionnaires with 92,000
employees and presidents and human resources professionals.

It also selected the best employers in each of the countries
studied and singled out the five best companies in Indonesia:
Elegant Textile, Bogasari Flour Mills, Indofood Sukses Makmur,
Toyota-Astra Motor and the Texmaco Group.

Hewitt said in a statement here that the survey found that
being a good employer means a great deal and that a happy
workforce rewards a company through better profits, higher
productivity and lower employee turnover.

The study also concluded that the 1997 economic crisis in East
Asia seemed to have come as a wake-up call for companies to start
rethinking their employee relations. (vin)