Ericsson India Private Limited
Why Ericsson India Private Limited is a Great Place To Work
Ericsson India Private Limited is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organization. The company has created a Great Place to Work FOR ALL their employees by excelling on the 5 dimensions of a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™ – Credibility, Respect, Fairness, Pride and Camaraderie. Every year, Great Place to Work® identifies India's 100 Best Companies to Work For (with employee strength more than 500) through an objective and rigorous workplace culture assessment process.
Ericsson is one of the leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to service providers. They enable the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt, and scale, making their customers successful in a fully connected world. Innovation is at the core of Ericsson’s existence and success. Employees are inspired through multiple ways and innovative initiatives which are constantly being evolved and refurbished with the passage of time. Ericsson ONE is an internal accelerator for Ericsson employees with pioneering new business ideas, where they are given a chance to develop their ideas and build successful ventures beyond their core business. By leveraging Ericsson’s global scale, technology, relationships and expertise, the organization helps make their startups a success. The organization fuels Innovation at every level – Idea Boxes, Ericsson Operations Engine, Consumer & Industry Lab, Ericsson Research Day, Inventor of the year award are just some of the other examples. D&I features as one of the top priority items for Ericsson group, and globally and locally, Ericsson’s Leadership Team has been monitoring closely the progress on some of their D&I initiatives. Apart from programs like Aspire (the new female career enhancement program) and LEAP (aims to enhance generational and cultural diversity in leadership) , the organization is also encouraging employees to inspire girls to take up careers in STEM.
Some of the Best People Practices and Initiatives at Ericsson India Private Limited include -
Hackthevirus: This initiative is to channelize their employees energy and competence to finding solutions to the current pandemic. This initiative had 2 elements to it
72-hour hackathon - Unlike other hackathons, it will be completely virtual. Ericsson staff around the world will be eligible to apply for participation. The hackathon was facilitated by their global experts, colleagues from Marketing and Communication and Group Function Technology.
Secondly, a positioning, AI and analytics challenge leveraging operator data using technology from their data analytics unit Emodo in Business Area Technologies & New Businesses and other parts of the company - where they invite selected experts and customer units in individual countries to work with operators and regulators to develop insights to limit the Covid-19 spread in their countries.
ErricsonONE: It is an internal accelerator for Ericsson employees with pioneering new business ideas. Truly innovative companies don’t just invest in research and development, they invest in their employees too. At Ericsson ONE, they give talented people at Ericsson the chance to develop their ideas and build successful ventures beyond their core business. By leveraging Ericsson’s global scale, technology, relationships and expertise, they help make their startups a success.
