This was the challenge Valiantys has accomplished since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. We are GPTW certified for the 2nd time in the category of companies with 50 to 250 employees. Last November, all employees anonymously responded to the Great Place To Work Trust Index, which surveyed our employees’ feelings about their experience with the company. 95% of employees consider Valiantys a great place to work.
We wanted to share with you the Valiantys’ recipe for achieving this certification in a unique context. A year ago, the Covid-19 pandemic plunged the world into a multi-week lockdown. Most companies had to choose between putting their employees on short-term/technical leave or telecommuting. At Valiantys, agility and digital work are in our DNA, thanks to Atlassian tools. Indeed, long before the pandemic started, Valiantys already had the resources to support its customers remotely. It was, therefore, quite easy to switch all its teams to home offices. From one day to the next, employees, teams, departments, and the whole company organized to continue to carry out their missions. Of course, this has changed our collaborative practices and office life; meeting for lunch or simply chatting between two doors for a tea or a drink after work was no longer possible. But month after month, we have strengthened our agility and continued to collaborate remotely by promoting home offices for all employees thanks to Jira and Confluence.
So how do you create a remote corporate culture? Discover our company values and the ingredients that worked at Valiantys:
1. Organize highlights
2. Adopt management based on trust
3. Recruit members who share the company’s values
4. Integrate new members
5. Train employees