{"id":69803,"date":"2025-05-26T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=69803"},"modified":"2025-05-23T18:22:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:22:43","slug":"eastwest-wins-gold-for-people-first-hr-tech-at-2025-asia-pacific-stevie-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2025\/05\/26\/eastwest-wins-gold-for-people-first-hr-tech-at-2025-asia-pacific-stevie-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"EastWest wins gold for people-first HR tech at 2025 Asia-Pacific Stevie\u00ae Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EastWest has been awarded a\u00a0Gold Stevie Award\u00a0for\u00a0Excellence in Innovative Use of Technology in Human Resources\u00a0at the\u00a02025 Asia-Pacific Stevie\u00ae Awards, recognizing the bank\u2019s people-led, tech-powered transformation in HR.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presented annually, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are the only regional business awards program that recognizes workplace innovation across 29 countries. EastWest received the honor during the gala ceremony held on\u00a0May 13, 2025\u00a0in\u00a0Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>People-Led Automation, Meaningful Results<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This recognition highlights the success of EastWest\u2019s People Advantage Gameplan, a two-year transformation strategy that combined grassroots automation across the employee lifecycle with authentic employee engagement and behavioral insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using\u00a0Microsoft Power Platform tools, EastWest\u2019s HR team, without external vendors, designed and deployed digital solutions that streamlined onboarding, people dashboard and analytics, wellness, employee loans, recognition, and offboarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These achievements reflect a modern, scalable, and employee-centered approach to HR transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The results were both human and measurable:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022<em>+8-point increase in Employee Satisfaction: from 69% in 2022 to 77% in 2024, with 93% of employees expressing intent to stay in the next two years<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022<em>+4-point boost in Engagement: from 73% in 2022 to 77% in 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022<em>18% net headcount growth, driven by the highest hiring levels in over a decade<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022<em>Attrition lowered by 10 percentage points, aligning with industry standards<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><u>Human Connection at the Core<\/u><\/em><\/strong><strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond tools and technology, EastWest placed high value on genuine employee connection. The initiative featured listening sessions and conversations with the CEO, and employee-led storytelling campaigns that amplified authenticity across the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve always believed that technology is central in making people-centered experiences across the employee lifecycle happen,\u201d said Atty. Juan Alfonso \u201cAlfie\u201d Suarez, Chief People, Corporate Services, and Sustainability Officer at EastWest. \u201cThis recognition inspires us to do better, be better, and take our employees, customers and stakeholders further\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>A Future-Ready HR Model<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EastWest continues to lead with a passion for customer centricity, a drive for changing things for the better, and a focus on shared benefit with people at the center and technology as an enabler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recognition highlights the success of EastWest\u2019s People Advantage Gameplan, a two-year transformation strategy that combined grassroots automation across the employee lifecycle with authentic employee engagement and behavioral insights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":69804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[368,4796,6756],"class_list":["post-69803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-award","tag-bank-industry","tag-eastwest-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69805,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69803\/revisions\/69805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}