SAS China Named “Top Employer China” for the 11th Consecutive Year

SAS China has been named as “Top Employer China 2018” from Top Employers Institute, hitting the honored title for 11 years in a row. Released on December 4, 2017, the certification has recognized the excellence of SAS China’s human resource sector especially in environment, practice and other aspects.

Following globally unified research process and criteria, Amsterdam-based Top Employers Institute identifies employers with the best human resources conditions in a region based on a research into employers' HR facts in terms with policies and practices. The research is focused on the following 9 aspects: Talent Strategy, Workforce Planning, On-boarding, Learning & Development, Performance Management, Leadership Development, Career & Succession Management, Compensation & Benefits, and Culture. Ever since it began to operate in China in 2007, this year marked the 11^th year for the China Certification Dinners to be held, and for SAS to be named a Top Employer since then.

Ms. Nicole Jin, Country Manager China for the Top Employers Institute: “Top Employers Institute has a strict and high standard to accept the participants into the certification process. Only the companies who have the real interests in developing its talents and have a mature Human Resource foundation will pass the pre-screen.  And the thorough certification process determined which companies finally made the certification.   The validated research concluded that SAS China provides an outstanding employment environment and offers a wide range of creative initiatives, from secondary benefits and working conditions, to performance-management programmes that are well thought out and truly aligned with the culture of their company.”

As pointed out by Alfred Liu, General Manager of SAS Beijing R&D Center, "Innovation is the key to SAS’ business success as well as the core to its 41-year continued profitability. We invested 26% of our global revenue into R&D in 2016, way above the industry average. Our core competitiveness comes from the creativity that employees inject into SAS. SAS has been striving to create a work environment that inspires the creativity of employees, and always believe that employees' innovations will create real business value for our customers and the industry." 

SAS has long been favored by major authoritative rating agencies. Not long before receiving this certification, SAS was recently ranked the 3rd place in 2017 World's Best Multinational Workplaces by Fortune and its partner Great Place to Work^® Institute. In addition, SAS has been listed among Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For each year ever since Fortune launched the ranking in 1998. According to the SAS 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, the average employee tenure is eight years, and the voluntary employee turnover rate is only 6% (compared to an industry average of 18.4%).

“Top Employers Institute is well known for its strict certification standards. Therefore, it is our great honor, as well as an acknowledgement of our continued efforts, to have been named a top employer for the 11^th consecutive year, " said Cliff Wu, Regional Vice President of SAS Greater China. “Providing employees with the best environment to work and growth has been an important part of SAS' corporate culture and strategy. Besides rewarding our employees with rich career development programs, education opportunities and professional trainings, and promoting the concept of ‘work-life balance’, we also encourage them to practice social responsibility with what talent they have. I believe it is our commitment to such a corporate culture and our belief in people talents that enable SAS to maintain its position as a world’s ‘best employer’. 

About Top Employers Institute

Headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Top Employers Institute identifies employers with the best factual HR conditions in a region through the Top Employers Certification, the only program in the industry that based on a research into employers' HR facts in terms with policies and practices in compliance with international uniform research process and criteria.

Since 1991, Top Employers Institute has been focusing on the certification of outstanding employers worldwide including China. In addition to national-level certifications in China and other countries, the Institute also awards Continental Top Employers to outstanding employers the six world's largest regions, namely, North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. For more information, please visit: http://www.top-employers.com