SAP Labs India celebrates International Women’s Day

SAP Labs has announced its commitment to driving diversity and inclusion in the workplace with a series of initiatives culminating on International Women’s Day (IWD). Presently, 32 per cent of the organization’s workforce constitutes women and SAP’s goal is to increase women in leadership roles to 25 per cent by 2017.
 
Coinciding with IWD, SAP Labs India will conduct a women’s only recruitment drive where between 250 and 300 women have been invited to the campus in Bangalore for a final round of interviews. These professionals have been shortlisted from an initial pool of about 1,500 candidates that SAP received through a Diversity Employee Referral Programme that was initiated across the company over the last three weeks. From the shortlisted profiles, about 20 per cent will be hired for positions ranging from SAP scholars, early talent, lateral talent and interns.
 
As part of this recruitment drive, potential women employees will be addressed by Anirban Dey, Managing Director, SAP Labs India, and Sheenam Ohrie, Vice-President, Diversity & Inclusion, SAP Labs India.

To nurture a culture of innovation and intrapreneurship, SAP Labs India, in association with the National Institute of Technology, Trichy (NIT-T), is hosting a nightlong hackathon called "APP.ly – Code to empower Her", to build mobile or web-based applications that address everyday issues faced by women. The event is part of NIT-T’s Golden Jubilee celebrations and will be held over two days (March 8th & 9th) with support from various NGOs. The winning team will receive an initial seed funding from an angel investor to bootstrap their idea.

SAP Labs’ Diversity and Inclusion programmes have been widely recognized over the past year. A few of these include CMO Asia’s “Best Organization for Women Talent Development”, “Creating a Conducive Work Environment for Women” from the NCR Chapter of National HRD Networks, “Global HR Excellence” award by the World HRD Congress, the “NASSCOM Excellence Award” for Gender Inclusivity and the Zinnov award for the “Most Successful Attrition Management”. One such initiative the organization runs is for women returning after a maternity break that has seen attrition in post-maternity returns drop from 69 per cent in 2007 to just 2.6 per cent in 2013.