Philstar.com
September 8, 2025 | 2:15pm
MANILA, Philippines — Filinvest Group proudly introduced that it has received two prestigious accolades on the HR Asia Awards 2025 – The Philippines Chapter: the Variety, Fairness and Inclusion (DEI) Award and HR Asia Greatest Corporations to Work for in Asia Award, obtained final August 26.
These recognitions underscore the Group’s robust, persevering with dedication to creating an inclusive, empowering and people-first office.
“Profitable these important awards is a proud second for Filinvest,” stated Isabelle Gotianun Yap, director of Filinvest Improvement Company (FDC) and VP chief technique and transformation officer and government director of EastWest.
“They affirm our long-standing perception that empowering various voices and views results in stronger outcomes for our folks, our communities and our companies. This recognition conjures up us to proceed shaping a office the place inclusivity fuels innovation, collaboration and significant impression.”
As well as, Francis Gotianun, director of FDC and FSVP of Filinvest Hospitality Corp. added: “These milestone recognitions are a mirrored image of our folks and the tradition we’ve constructed collectively. At Filinvest, range, fairness, and inclusion should not checkboxes—they’re the drivers of our progress and our capability to adapt to vary. As we have a good time 70 years of Transferring Goals Ahead, we’re reminded that desires know no boundaries, and it’s our function to make sure each particular person has the chance to make theirs a actuality.”
A office the place everybody belongs
Filinvest earned excessive marks throughout HR Asia’s survey classes, significantly in Variety, Fairness and Inclusion, the place the Group outperformed market averages in offering equal profession alternatives, creating protected areas for cultural expression, and taking robust motion towards discrimination.
Illustration can also be evident in Filinvest’s management composition: 67% of its Board of Administrators are ladies, alongside 49% of executives and 57% of its whole workforce. By comparability, the Philippine Enterprise Coalition for Ladies Empowerment (PBCWE) census on publicly listed firms exhibits a management ratio of 40% feminine and 60% male. This robust efficiency highlights Filinvest’s decades-long dedication to advancing gender fairness and cultivating various management in any respect ranges.
To help its people-first agenda, Filinvest has carried out equity-driven practices akin to truthful compensation and advantages, clear profession development pathways and inclusive collaboration frameworks.
Packages like Filinvest Dwell, LEAP and management growth initiatives have enriched worker engagement, delivering greater than 832,000 coaching hours in 2024—a mean of 60 hours per worker. This far exceeds the 40-hour studying benchmark, a widely known customary for skilled growth that aligns with each company coaching practices and the worldwide 40-hour work week mannequin.
Why Filinvest was acknowledged
The latest double win displays not solely Filinvest’s robust HR practices but additionally the belief and engagement of its staff. HR Asia cited the next as key the explanation why the Group stood out amongst its friends:
HR Asia acknowledged the Group for its robust insurance policies and tradition that promote fairness, gender stability and a protected, inclusive setting by the Variety, Fairness and Inclusion (DEI) Award.
As well as, Filinvest was honored with the HR Asia Greatest Corporations to Work for in Asia Award 2025 – Philippines Chapter for excelling within the group’s proprietary survey that measures worker engagement, office tradition and organizational excellence—additional affirming the belief and constructive expertise of its workforce.
“These recognitions from HR Asia are really important for us in HR,” shared Bing Paraguas, first vp and head of hr technique and COE of Filinvest Group.
“They validate the packages and insurance policies we’ve designed to create an setting the place folks really feel seen, heard and valued. However past the methods, what makes these awards particular is the way in which our staff have embraced inclusivity as a part of on a regular basis life at Filinvest.”
Transferring desires ahead at 70
The group’s recognitions in folks and organizational excellence solely proceed to develop. In 2025, Filinvest additionally earned honors on the Stevie Awards for Nice Employers, together with Silver for Achievement in Management Improvement and Bronze in Expertise Acquisition, Organizational Tradition and Employer of the Yr (Actual Property), on high of a number of recognitions within the HR Excellence Awards 2025.
These milestone awards come at a significant time because the Group celebrates its seventieth anniversary—a journey that started in a humble Cebu shophouse and has since grown into one of many Philippines’ most revered and diversified conglomerates.
Guided by its anniversary philosophy of Transferring Goals Ahead, Filinvest continues to position folks on the heart of its progress, making certain that progress and alternatives lengthen to all.
Past accolades, Filinvest stays dedicated to constructing sustainable communities, selling monetary inclusion, advancing nation-building efforts, and creating alternatives that uplift generations.
Because the Group strikes into its subsequent chapter, these recognitions reinforce the assumption that an inclusive office is important to shaping a stronger, extra resilient future for all.
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