Teleperformance Recognized for Its Efforts to Integrate Refugees at First-ever “Business for Refugees” Awards
24 June 2021 - 1:05AM
Business Wire
The Tent Partnership for Refugees’ “Business for Refugees”
awards recognize companies that have gone above and beyond to
include refugees in their new communities. Teleperformance
recognized for its efforts in outstanding leadership in integrating
refugees into the workforce
Regulatory News:
Teleperformance (Paris:TEP), a leading global group in digitally
integrated business services, today announced it has been
recognized for its outstanding efforts to include refugees in its
new host communities. Teleperformance received the Outstanding
Leadership in Integrating Refugees into the Workforce Award,
recognized for its efforts to hire over 2,000 Venezuelan refugees
in Colombia, during Refugee Week 2021, at a virtual awards ceremony
in New York.
The inaugural “Business for Refugees” Awards, hosted by the Tent
Partnership for Refugees (Tent) — a global network of more than 170
major companies committed to supporting refugees around the world —
recognizes businesses that have made extraordinary efforts to
support refugees.
During the virtual awards ceremony, CEO of Chobani and
Founder of Tent, Hamdi Ulukaya said: “As we emerge from this
pandemic, it's amazing to see so many businesses going above and
beyond to include refugees. We must continue to create
opportunities for everyone while we rebuild our economies and our
societies — we must not leave refugees behind.”
With an extensive, global presence in 83 countries,
Teleperformance serves as a strategic partner to the world’s
largest companies across many industries. Core to the company's
values is a desire to improve people’s lives and pave the way to a
better and more equitable tomorrow for all.
“We are pleased to support such an incredible and noble cause,
and be recognized by Tent, alongside our esteemed colleagues, who
are also doing incredible work to help those in need,” commented
Juan Carlos Hincapie, CEO Teleperformance Ibero-Latam, who
accepted the award. “This is an incredible honor.”
Alongside Teleperformance, Tent’s “Business for Refugees” Awards
recognized the following companies for their programs to integrate
refugees:
- Airbnb.org and Airbnb won the award
for Outstanding Leadership in Tailoring Products to Meet Refugees’
Needs - DoorDash won the award for Outstanding Leadership in
Storytelling about Refugee Integration - IKEA won the award
for Outstanding Leadership in Integrating Refugees in the Supply
Chain - Ben & Jerry’s won the award for Outstanding
Leadership in Supporting Refugee Entrepreneurs
Daniel Julien, Chairman and CEO, Teleperformance, said:
“For many years now, we have supported global impact sourcing
initiatives all around the world to provide aid and help
disadvantaged people realize their self-potential. We are very
proud of the refugee workforce integration efforts of our team in
Colombia, and it is also great to see so many other organizations
doing their part to make this critical Tent refugee initiative
successful. Together, we really can make a positive difference in
millions of lives everywhere.”
ABOUT TELEPERFORMANCE GROUP
Teleperformance (TEP – ISIN: FR0000051807 – Reuters: TEPRF.PA
- Bloomberg: TEP FP), a leading global group in digitally
integrated business services, serves as a strategic partner to
the world’s largest companies in many industries. It offers a One
Office support services model combining three wide, high-value
solution families: customer experience management, back-office
services and business process knowledge services. These end-to-end
digital solutions guarantee successful customer interaction and
optimized business processes, anchored in a unique, comprehensive
high tech, high touch approach. The Group's 380,000+ employees,
based in 83 countries, support billions of connections every year
in over 265 languages and over 170 markets, in a shared commitment
to excellence as part of the “Simpler, Faster, Safer” process. This
mission is supported by the use of reliable, flexible, intelligent
technological solutions and compliance with the industry’s highest
security and quality standards, based on Corporate Social
Responsibility excellence. In 2020, Teleperformance reported
consolidated revenue of €5,732 million (US$6.5 billion, based on €1
= $1.14) and net profit of €324 million.
Teleperformance shares are traded on the Euronext Paris market,
Compartment A, and are eligible for the deferred settlement
service. They are included in the following indices: CAC 40, CAC
Support Services, STOXX 600, S&P Europe 350 and MSCI Global
Standard. In the area of corporate social responsibility,
Teleperformance shares are included in the CAC 40 ESG index, the
Euronext Vigeo Eurozone 120 index, the FTSE4Good index and the
Solactive Europe Corporate Social Responsibility index (formerly
Ethibel Sustainability Excellence Europe index).
For more information: www.teleperformance.com Follow us on
Twitter: @teleperformance
ABOUT THE TENT PARTNERSHIP FOR REFUGEES
With more and more refugees displaced for longer periods of
time, businesses have a critical role to play in helping refugees
integrate economically in their new host communities. The Tent
Partnership for Refugees mobilizes the global business community to
improve the lives and livelihoods of 30 million refugees who have
been forcibly displaced from their home countries. Founded by
Chobani’s founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya in 2016, we are a network
of over 170 major companies committed to including refugees. Tent
believes that companies can most sustainably support refugees by
leveraging their core business operations – by engaging refugees as
potential employees, entrepreneurs, and consumers. Find out more at
www.tent.org
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