FBNHoldings Secures Top Spot As Best Workplace In Nigeria

FBN Holdings Plc, a leading financial services group and holding company, clinched the prestigious title of the Year 2024 Overall Best Workplace in Nigeria in the small corporate category awards hosted by Great Place to Work (GPTW) last Friday at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.

In a statement, the financial institution said that this year’s unprecedented recognition and acknowledgement clearly accentuates the deliberate strategy of the board and management of the company in creating a conducive and work-friendly environment that has enabled its staff to thrive. The company also received two other accolades: Best in Promoting a High Trust Culture and Best in Promoting People Leadership Practices.

“The holding company’s subsidiaries also enjoyed their share of the recognition and achievement at the grand ceremony; it started with the flagship subsidiary, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, receiving two awards: the coveted Year 2024 Legendary award. This award is based on the bank’s consistency in having received certification for five consecutive years (2020-2024), which ultimately qualifies it to join an exclusive group of a few African companies that have also won accreditation for five years. The second award it won is Best in Corporate Social Responsibility, attesting to the bank’s tremendous involvement in activities of this nature, which has been tagged Start Performing Acts of Random Kindness (SPARK).

“The other subsidiaries that made it a glorious evening for the Group were FBN Insurance Brokers and FBNQuest Trustees, who took Best Workplace in Promoting a Fun and Friendly Environment and Best Workplace for Women awards, respectively.

In the ranking category for best workplaces in Nigeria in the small, medium and large corporate categories, the Group also had a remarkable evening with performances and recognitions.

“To come up with the various results, GPTW, a global firm that gives leaders and organisations the recognition and tools to create a consistently and overwhelmingly positive employee experience, apply survey, research, feedback from information gathered which are fed into an automated system that eventually provides the various results that are deployed in the final analysis of placements and ranking of organisations annually.

Also, insights from approximately 10,000 organisations worldwide are used to benchmark individual performance and advise employers on continuously improving employee engagement,” the bank stated.

Group managing director of FBN Holdings Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo, was delighted at these achievements. He posited that ‘these recognitions and awards affirm our effective best-in-class HR practices and strategy that is reshaping our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) towards building a high-performance environment’.

Okonkwo added that ‘these awards won across the group will motivate the leadership to continue to pursue a strong people agenda to drive superior business performance for the overall interest of our stakeholders.’