[DongA Ilbo, August 25th , 2020]

Pepper Savings Bank to create a family-friendly corporate culture with its ‘people-centric’ management principle Pepper Savings Bank (CEO: Matthew Chang) that has emphasized the importance of human resources with its ‘people-centric’ management principle leads the financial industry to seek employment stability and create a family-friendly corporate culture.

Pepper Savings Bank is currently operating a program that helps newly hired employees adjust to the company with their mentor seniors who are assigned as a ‘buddy’ to provides the new employees a range of supports to learn the company culture and business skills. For the program, the company is also providing a small amount of money for cultural activities to enhance the friendliness between the new employee and buddy senior.

Furthermore, the company transforms itself to a company that promotes its employee’s work-life balance, introducing various welfare programs including ‘Family Day,’ which encourages its employee to leave work on time every Wednesday, ‘Family Vacation,’ which provides paid leave if the employee’s family is sick, employment of woman with an interrupted career, and ‘Supportive Fund for Baby,’ which provides subsidies to the employee who has given birth. Recently, in order to build a ‘work-friendly workplace,’ it has been active in improving the internal environment by installing a healing room equipped with a top-notch massager and sleeping chair.

As a testimony to this people-centric culture, Pepper Savings Bank was awarded the Grand Prize at the ‘2020 National Empathy Campaign’ hosted by Dong-A Ilbo for 2 consecutive years.

Read the news in Korean here.