WNS Wins Special Award at ‘NASSCOM Corporate Awards for Excellence in Gender Inclusivity 2010’
November 23 2010 - 9:07AM
Business Wire
WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, was honored by the
National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)
with a special award for Excellence in Gender Inclusivity at the
‘Inclusivity and Diversity Summit 2010’, held during 22-23 Nov.,
2010, at ITC, Bangalore. The special recognition award in the ‘Best
BPO Company’ category was given to WNS for its path-breaking
efforts in promoting women employment and empowerment. Suchitra
Kerkar, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, WNS, received it on
behalf of WNS from Vinita Bali, Managing Director, Britannia
Industries.
“We are overwhelmed with this special recognition given to WNS
by NASSCOM. We believe that inclusivity implies creating an
enabling environment for growth regardless of gender. Over 42
percent of our workforce comprises women. So WNS clearly recognizes
and believes that women are a potent force fueling its growth,”
said Keshav R. Murugesh, Group CEO, WNS Global Services.
From simple initiatives like mandatory leaves, flexible work
options and special grants for maternity for women employees, to
strategic initiatives like ensuring only day shifts for women in
the Nashik center, gender inclusivity is a part of WNS’s
organizational philosophy.
“At WNS, the ethos of gender inclusivity goes far beyond ad hoc
initiatives, and has the buy-in and enthusiasm of the senior
management. The most significant parameters of gender inclusivity
are 60% of women employees joining us as against 34% male
employees; and a sizeable percentage returning after having left
the organization,” adds Keshav.
NASSCOM Awards for Excellence in Gender Inclusivity encourage,
recognize, and honor IT and BPO organizations that have implemented
policies and practices for diversity and inclusivity, and thus
enabled women to contribute to the success of the enterprise at all
levels.
About the Award
The awards criteria include five parameters – business
rationale, senior leadership support, communication, accountability
and measurable results. The winning companies have been adjudged by
a jury of representatives from the industry. The NASSCOM Corporate
Awards to companies for excellence in Gender Inclusivity is a key
component of the NASSCOM Gender Inclusivity initiative, to
recognize best practices in gender inclusivity in the workplace and
showcase the winning companies. This is the first award in India
that honors companies that have implemented policies and practices
for gender inclusivity and enabled women to contribute to the
success of the enterprise at all levels in the organization.
About WNS
WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading global business
process outsourcing company. WNS offers business value to 200+
global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain
expertise in key industry verticals including Travel, Insurance,
Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer
Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics and Healthcare and
Utilities. WNS delivers an entire spectrum of business process
outsourcing services such as finance and accounting, customer care,
technology solutions, research and analytics and industry specific
back office and front office processes. WNS has over 21,000
professionals across 21 delivery centers worldwide including Costa
Rica, India, Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom.
For more information, visit www.wns.com.
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