Dentsu World Services wins PeopleFirst HR Excellence Award

Dentsu World Services has been awarded the PeopleFirst Excellence Award 2021 for ‘leading practices in employee engagement.’ This prestigious award by PeopleFirst recognizes and celebrates leading people-focussed initiatives practised dentsu World Services to actively engage their diverse teams and lead to improved alignment with evolving business goals.

Shashikant Shimpi, Vice-President and Country Head, dentsu World Services, shared that “this is great news to begin the new year! Nothing motivates a team better than being rewarded for its hard work and dedicated efforts. I recall seeing innovative employee engagement ideas and initiatives launched by our people-excellence team and the amazing response it fetched from the wider teams. I believe Q2 of 2021 was the most challenging as the COVID cases peaked, however, with the constant support of the leadership team we grew exponentially, were able to connect better with our teams and deliver an unmatched employee experience at multiple touchpoints. I congratulate the entire team and am very excited to witness how our talented team meets new challenges head-on and innovate the ways of working as we step in another growth-led year”

“This is a proud win for all of us at dentsu. The People Excellence award celebrates the work excellence demonstrated by our team and inspires us to lead by example. We bagged the ‘Winner’ award from nominations submitted by 150+ entries from 50+ organizations across a cross-section of industries including Manufacturing, Automobile, Telecom, IT, Banking, Financial Services, Insurance & Hospitality. Having raised the bar of employee experience and excellence in the last year, we look forward to setting our feet firm in 2022 by rolling out business and people practices that allow us to unleash our people’s best potential and deliver never-before solutions to our clients” said Nidhi Sharma, Head of Human Resources, dentsu World Services.

Congratulating the team, Mr Umesh Rateja Director - PeopleFirst Ltd. (India) said that “on behalf of the PeopleFirst HR Excellence Awards team, I thank you for your participation. Jury members were impressed with the quality of both, the nomination story as well as the presentation. Overall jury feedback received is a testament of your and your organization’s interest, commitment and zeal to excel.”