Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Housing, PropTiger and Makaan)

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About The Organization

Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Housing, PropTiger and Makaan) is recognized among India's Best Companies to Work For 2019 and among India's Best Workplaces for Women 2019 (Top 75). 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 rigourous workplace culture assessment process. As a part of our annual research in India, this year a total of 747 organizations were evaluated and from them, we identified India’s 75 Best Workplaces for Women 2019.

Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd. owns the combined entity of PropTiger. PropTiger's Makaan and Housing.com are two of India's leading online real estate service providers and truly, India's first online-to-offline (O2O) real estate services platform.

Company Size

1347 Employees

Industry

E-commerce

Why Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Housing, PropTiger and Makaan) is a Great Place to Work?

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Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Housing, PropTiger and Makaan) has successfully created a Great Place to Work FOR ALL their employees as they have excelled on the 5 dimensions that are a hallmark of a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™ – Credibility, Respect, Fairness, Pride and Camaraderie. In a rigorous assessment process conducted by the Great Place to Work® Institute, Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Housing, PropTiger and Makaan) met the minimum criteria on the Trust Index© Employee Survey, on the consistency of experience across all demographics and on the Culture Audit© People Practices Framework, to clear the first level i.e. getting Great Place to Work-Certified™.

Great Place to Work® is considered the ‘Gold Standard’ in workplace culture assessment and recognition.

As a certified organization, Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Housing, PropTiger and Makaan) became eligible to be considered among 'India's Best Companies to Work For 2019' – a list that features the 'Best of the Best’. The process of identifying India's Best Companies to Work For is based purely on the assessment findings and does not involve any jury or opinion based criteria.

Culture Snapshot
Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Housing-PropTiger-Makaan) is focused on robust hiring, building an appreciative culture and creating an inspiring work environment for its people through continuous communications. AutoVALUEgraphy and Child Care Allowance Policy are some of their notable people practices.

This page highlights more about the work culture of the organization, selected best people practices, the vision of the leadership and glimpses of employee life.

Read through to find out what makes Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Housing, PropTiger and Makaan) a Great Workplace.

Recognitions awarded by Great Place to Work^®

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Great Place to Work-Certified™ from March 2019 - February 2020.

India's Best Companies to Work For 2019

Among India's 75 Best Workplaces for Women 2019

Best People Practices

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Balancing Right

To ensure that people are not burnt out and don’t get stretched beyond a point, HRIS monitors the attendance and if any member in the team is working more than 10 working days in a row, the manager along with reviewing manager and HR Business Partner gets an email to remind that their team member has not taken a break for last 10 days. The manager immediately needs to check how and why this case has come up and ensure that the team member gets a break.

The organization always recognizes good work and special efforts and new ideas. They always appreciate us for our good work by special rewards and recognition.

Employee Testimonial

Everyone is provided with an opportunity to learn and grow within the organisation and company policies are designed greatly keeping in mind that each employee can be benefited.

Employee Testimonial

Leaders Speak

Dhruv Agarwala

Group CEO, Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd.

1. What is your personal approach to making a Great Workplace?
It starts with hiring high-quality talent and then ensuring that one does everything in one’s power to create an environment that allows them to succeed, which in turn leads to the success of the organisation and the creation of a workplace with highly motivated people.

2. What are the top 2 benefits you see of creating a Great Workplace?
The biggest benefit is what I like to call the virtuous cycle of a great place to work. A Great Place to Work leads to highly engaged employees that leads to better org performance that leads to a more engaging and motivating workplace, which once again leads to highly engaged employees and so on.

The second big benefit is that it provides a competitive advantage, which is not easy for competitors to copy. Building a Great Place to Work requires years of effort before the virtuous cycle kicks in, which gives you a sustainable edge over the competition.

3. What are your top people priorities?
Smart talent acquisition strategies, effective performance management and reward systems, consistent leadership development and innovative employee engagement mechanisms.

4. How has your association with Great Place to Work® helped your business and strategic goals?
We have seen a significant jump in employee engagement that has led to tangible improvement in financial outcomes.

Rohit Hasteer

Group Chief Human Resource Officer, Elara Technologies Pte. Ltd.

1. What can your present and potential employees be sure of from a work culture perspective in the organization?
- Consistent Superlative Employee Experience.
- Our commitment to keeping people and culture as an integral part of the business and long term strategy.

2. What, according to you, is a people challenge your industry is facing?
- People sentiment around the growth aspects and overall working of the Real Estate Industry

3. How are you ensuring a consistent workplace experience FOR ALL your employees, irrespective of their role, age, gender, tenure etc. in the organization?
- Leadership Buy-In – Our CEO and the complete leadership team is committed to the vision of creating Great Place to Work and collectively working towards this mission.
- Giving ownership to the People Managers to drive the culture and work as catalysts/partners to creating consistency of experience. Also, coach them and guide them on this journey.
- Deliver made to order experience keeping in mind diverse talent archetype and geographical presence and having an egalitarian approach while offering customized solutions
- Create robust processes/guidelines that work as a constitutional guideline and no one including the CEO is above/exception to it. Fairness and Equity are an integral part of our culture.

4. How has your association with Great Place to Work® helped your business and strategic goals?
Partnering with Great Place to Work® over the 10+ years across companies like MakeMyTrip, UT Worldwide and now Housing-PropTiger-Makaan has been the key factor in building successful and strong HR process that enables the business to achieve its core objectives.

Some of the direct impact areas of our partnership has been:
- Transforming young age start-ups into full-fledged robust organizations that are today the first choice of employer for top talent in their industry.
- Creating consistency of employee experience leading to higher productivity, lower attrition and sustainable business growth (even when the company was going through aggressive mergers and acquisition).
- Creating a sense of ownership and buy-in among business leaders to be the owners of culture and driving people experience.
- Creating strong credibility for the HR Team by showcasing a direct impact on business deliverables through robust HR processes.