Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has been highly rated among notable brands in Nigeria by LinkedIn, American professional social networking platform.
This follows the firm’s steady growth into becoming a great place to work.
Through deliberate and intentional efforts embodied by policies and system optimisation, it is attracting and retaining great talents, while seeing new levels of performance output.
EKEDC stressed that, it has witnessed some marked changes in staff remuneration and incentivization, as well as training and capacity development, adding that, the strategy has been to create a continuous upward mobility track where employees become better as they stay on the job, while making sure they receive their due reward for performance.
The emergence of Dr Tinuade Sanda as the managing director/CEO of the company last year marked a defining moment for the company’s culture regarding staff welfare and performance incentivisation.
Under her watch, EKEDC has witnessed massive changes with regards to remuneration, incentives, working environment, and capacity development.
In May 2022, there was a 25 per cent salary increase across board for staff. This was followed by the promotion of over 1000 staff, and payment of performance bonuses in October.
These efforts shot staff enthusiasm and commitment through the roof, manifesting in unprecedented performance levels for staff and the organisation, while staff clocked in more hours and delivered more projects, even as the company registered its highest collection ever over a one-year period.
However, few days ago, precisely in April, EKEDC was recognised as one of the best 25 companies to work in Nigeria by LinkedIn, ranking within the top 10.
In its ranking, LinkedIn— American professional social networking platform— recognised EKEDC alongside EY (Ernst & Young), Interswitch Limited, Nestle, Standard Chartered Bank, ExxonMobil, among other notable brands.
Its methodology included components like; how employees are advancing both within a company and when they leave; how they are upskilling while employed there, supportive culture in place, variety of educational attainments of employees, attrition and layoff rates.
EKEDC, speaking through the general manager(GM), Corporate Communications and Strategy, Babatunde Lasaki, while responding to this development, made it clear that even though it was proud that the company was ‘one of the ‘Stellar 25’ from a sea of companies in Nigeria,’ it would not rest on it oars ‘until we become and remain number one.’
