SAP Labs India Sets New Benchmark for Providing Employee Centric Workplace

SAP SE has announced that SAP Labs India has ranked #1 in ‘India’s Best Companies to Work For – 2018’ survey carried out by the Great Place to Work® Institute. SAP Labs India has also been recognized in the list of the Best Workplaces – Culture of Innovation 2018.  Great Place to Work® Institute’s annual list is one of the largest and most esteemed study of workplace excellence and people management practices globally.

Congratulating SAP Labs India, Prasenjit Bhattacharya, CEO - Great Place to Work Institute said, “SAP encourages free expression, collaboration, individuality, and diversity. Its core strength as an employer vests in the Culture of Innovation of the Company. SAP has developed an environment which motivates its employees to do their best and energizes an individual to influence the deliveries with utmost sincerity, and this award is a testament to it.”

SAP Labs India is the second largest R&D center in SAP’s global network of 20 labs in 17 countries and is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Employees of SAP Labs India work in an environment where people are the focus across all functions and the workplace is non-hierarchical, fluid and flexible. SAP Labs has always been employer of choice because of its various people-focused initiatives like – ‘Back-to-Work; Autism at Work; Entrepreneurship Sabbatical, Care for Life Fund, SAP Startup Studio among several others.

Dilipkumar Khandelwal, President – SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, SAP SE & Managing Director, SAP Labs India said, “Innovation is the soul of the organization and we place significant importance to build and sustain a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. Innovation drives pride and helps us to move our customers into the future. Our endeavor is to create a workplace where each individual believes that they are stakeholders in the success of the organization and are empowered to take decisions that eventually leads to better innovations for our customers.”

Shraddhanjali Rao, Head of Human Resources – SAP, India said, “At SAP, we create a workplace our employees feel inspired & challenged to bring their best, be authentic and feel a part of bigger family that cares. Our emphasis is to understand their needs and provide platforms for innovation fostering creativity & collaboration. We have hyper personalized our programs, initiatives and benefits for the five generations of employees who work at SAP.”

SAP Labs India contributes to a wide range of SAP products and platforms including SAP S/4 HANA, the next generation business suite, SAP SuccessFactors, the complete HR system on the cloud,SAP Cloud Platform, the open enterprise PaaS offering, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, providing cloud infrastructure and managed services for in-memory applications, database, and platform among many others.