SAS® is Great Place to Work in Belgium

CARY, NC. Mar. 16 2009

Business analytics leader SAS Institute recently announced that the company got the 2nd  place in the “Best places to work in Belgium 2009” survey that is conducted annually by the Great Place to Work® Institute. This is the second year that SAS took part in the general category of the survey, which is meant for companies of less than 500 employees.

Companies are selected for the Best Companies lists primarily on the basis of their employees' responses to the Great Place to Work® Trust Index©, a proprietary employee survey developed by the Great Place to Work® Institute. In Belgium, the survey is an initiative of Vlerick’s HRM Centre in collaboration with the Great Place to Work Institute Europe.

"It is a large part of our company culture that we take care of our employees”, says Patrick Van Deven, the Country Manager of SAS in Belgium & Luxembourg. “It’s only our second participation in the survey and compared to our position last year, we made a great jump to the second place now, which clearly shows that we have been able to utilize the feedback from 2008 results. That gives us even more reason to be proud.”

"What our employees seem specifically satisfied with is the work environment, the work-life balance and the respect and attention for each individual,” says Gunter Cools, HR Director EMEA. We strive to create a flexible working environment for our employees and offer interesting and motivating tasks as well as a possibility to learn and improve. I believe these are the facts that make our employees stick with SAS.”

SAS Institute has recently taken part in several Great Place to Work surveys in Europe as well as in the United States and has done invariably well in all of them. In addition, FORTUNE Magazine recently listed SAS 12th time in a row among the annual list of "100 Best Companies to Work for”.

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