Aydem Energy received the Great Place to Work® Certificate with its 13 group companies.
Turkey's leading integrated energy company, Aydem Energy, carried the success it has achieved in Great Place to Work® last year to 2022. Aydem Energy, which has received the Great Place to Work® Certificate with its 11 group companies the previous year and has been entitled to enter the "Turkey's Best Employer" list with its 8 group companies, has now blazed another trail in Turkey, by obtaining this prestigious certificate with its 13 group companies.
Aydem Energy, which has been operating in the fields of electricity generation, distribution and retailing for more than 40 years, continues to break new grounds with the projects it has implemented in the field of employee branding. Aydem Energy, participating in the program conducted by the Great Place to Work® Institute, which provides services on workplace culture and employee satisfaction on a global scale, became the first company in Turkey to receive the Great Place to Work® “Great Workplace” Certificate with its 11 group affiliates last year. And this year, Aydem Energy broke its own record by being entitled to receive the Great Place to Work® Certificate with its 13 group affiliates.
Aydem Energy; in line with the evaluation of the employees in its umbrella company, Aydem Holding, and in its distribution and retail companies, Aydem Renewables, GDZ Energy Investments, ÇATES, Elsan, Extranet, Entek İnşaat, Tümaş, Yatağan and Yeni Filo, has received a “Great Workplace” certificate. Having achieved another important success in the field of workplace culture and employee satisfaction, Aydem Energy has become the only group in Turkey to receive the Great Place to Work® Certificate with its 13 companies.
“The work we have carried out throughout the year has been appreciated by our employees.”
Aydem Energy Human Resources Group Director Fatih İslamoğlu, indicating that the employees' evaluation of his company as a "great workplace" environment in terms of fairness, team spirit, reliability, pride and respect is a very proud result of the work carried out; has stated that they are very pleased and honored to be certified together with 13 group affiliates for the first time and at once, by blazing a trail in Turkey, with the independent evaluation of the Great Place to Work® Institute, which supports corporate culture in more than 60 countries in 5 continents, and with the opinions of the employees.
İslamoğlu has said “We have launched our employer brand “We for Energy” in 2021. Our learning and development platform, Aydem Academy, has been redesigned and activated in 2021. In the Academy, we have run different programs such as leadership development programs, personal development and compulsory trainings, and now we focus on continuous development by training our own internal trainers. We are working for the transformation of our company with our Equal Life initiative in the field of gender equality. We attach great importance to the inclusion of young talents in our companies. In this context, we have initiated our “S-energy Internship” and “Full Energy Young Talent” programs with all our companies.
Another important development for this year was the new working models we have accomplished. In this new system, which we have implemented by prioritizing efficiency, we have defined three working models: from the field/office, from home or hybrid. Thus, we aim to create a more efficient, competitive, digitalized new world order.”
“Our activities grow and our investments continue.”
Emphasizing that such a working system also brings along an increase in employment rates, Fatih İslamoğlu has stated that as of the end of November 2021, they will increase their number of employees from 11 thousand 554 to 12 thousand 545 and that Aydem Energy shall increase the number of permanent staff by 30% in 2022.
About Aydem Energy
Aydem Energy, the first and the pioneering integrated energy company of Turkey, operates in the fields of electricity generation, distribution and retail. Aydem Energy, which has put its signature under the pioneering works in its sector such as accomplishing of the first private hydroelectric power plant of Turkey, producing of the first domestic solar cell and possessing of the first private electricity distribution and retail licenses; presently, with its 27 power plants spread throughout Turkey and with its 1.965 MW installed power generates an electrical energy of 10.044 GW per annum. The renewable energy generation company of Aydem Energy, which focuses on renewable energy, is the largest company in Turkey, whose portfolio consists of 100% renewable resources. Besides the electricity generation activities, with its electricity retail companies, it provides service to 5 million customers in 2 regions and 5 cities, namely Aydın, Denizli, Muğla, İzmir and Manisa. It also provides electricity distribution services in the same provinces with its electricity distribution companies. In 2021, with the projects it has implemented in the field of employee branding, Aydem Energy, which has been included in the "Turkey's Best Employers List" with its 8 group companies, by the Great Place to Work®️ Institute, which provides services on a global scale in the field of workplace culture and employee satisfaction, this year as well, managed to achieve the Great Place to Work® Certificate as a “Great Workplace” with its 13 group companies.