Our culture is built around our purpose, mission, behaviors, values and the competences of our people. Our culture is alive thanks to our daily behavior in interacting with others and serves as a compass for our actions and describe how we behave on our projects.
Our culture demonstrates our DNA
We care, to build a creative tomorrow
Based on our culture, we created our People Strategy #WECARE. It was created with the strong commitment to ensure that all BESIX employees around the world, no matter in what country they work, receive a caring approach and have access to safety, health and wellbeing at work. Our people are our priority, “People First”.
This strategy is translated through different initiatives in the group: teleworking policy, flextime, childcare babysitting service for sick children, free medical exams for our employees, diversity & inclusion campaign, audit of accommodation for our workers in the Middle east, fitness room, sport events, confidence officer, fun activities ….
Our #WECARE strategy evolves to stay in tune with the present times, committed to meet employees' needs and expectations at every key moment of their life in a fast-changing world and putting a special emphasis on health and the new ways of working.
Be part of a diverse & inclusive team
We believe our group should be as diverse as the countries where we’re working. This diversity allows us to understand and connect to the needs of our clients everywhere we operate and to continue to innovate in everything we do.
Inclusion is also essential and linked to the value of respect. It ensures fairness, equal opportunity and openness to our colleagues, regardless of their backgrounds, beliefs or lifestyles. BESIX Group's teams are undeniably diverse, as our book Together illustrates.
Social initiatives through our foundation
BESIX Foundation supports charitable projects in the fields of education, construction and environment. Its goal is to help communities in the countries where BESIX Group is active. BESIX Foundation has an array of volunteering projects in which the Group’s employees can participate through its activities.
It’s important for a group like BESIX to include underprivileged people with a distance to the labor market. It aims to promote their personal development and enhance their professional skills. More information about our foundation: https://www.besixfoundation.com/en/
BESIX, a Top Employer
As a consequence of our People strategy, we are pleased and proud to have been awarded several times in a row the Top Employers Institute certification based on our workplace environment. The Top Employers Institute is the global authority on recognizing excellence in people practices.
Getting certified means putting our people first. The certification program helps BESIX Group measure our progress against other companies and their people practices. Recognition for our people practices also helps our organization grow as an employer of choice. When our employees are empowered by our people practices, they thrive.
In addition to this certification, every three years we carry out an engagement survey among our employees throughout the group to measure their job satisfaction.
Our last Engagement Survey (2021) revealed very positive scores for our employees' satisfaction within the Group.
Employee Listening Strategy
From the last engagement survey, it was clear that our employees were in need of more feedback and were asking for more possibilities to speak up; this is why we have reinforced our Employee Listening Strategy as we care about our employees and about what they have to say and how they feel.
From their onboarding until their offboarding our employees continuously get a chance to speak up and share their opinions and thoughts in all transparency as we strongly believe listening creates trust, engages teams and reinforces inclusion. #BetterTogether
Have a look at our Employee Listening Strategy by clicking here.