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Founding Principle |
| Arctern is founded with the
spirit of globalization. |
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Vision |
| To help bridge the global
workforce. |
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Employee Fulfillment |
Value your time
| We have the highest value for everyone’s time as it is will permanently remain in
limited supply. It is extremely important for us to match the right person to the right task at
all times. Therefore, we spend a good amount of time recruiting someone to ensure the right fit for the job. Recruiting right does not end with an offer letter – it continues throughout the lifecycle of
your career at Arctern ensuring that you are working on the tasks that best match your
skill set at all times.
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Reward
agreeably
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come in multiple forms and can vary from person to person – it could be related
to financial, experience, recognition, new challenges, positions, promotions, time-off,
education, training, and so on. We are committed to ensure that you are rewarded
agreeably at all times taking into account the factors that are most important to you.
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Career
growth
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We believe it is very important for you to grow professionally, financially, and
personally over time. This can only happen by taking on new challenges – where you are pushing yourself beyond your comfort
zone and in new areas. We encourage investments in
continuing education training and also take calculated risks in providing you new opportunities for growth and
empowerment within the company.
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Workplace
– an extended family
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like you to think of your company as your extended family and we will build our
policies around this.
• Trust : We trust our employees. We empower our employees to make decisions especially
when there may not be policies in place to guide them. We trust that our employees
will make decisions that honor and uphold our company’s code of ethics.
• Encourage healthy lifestyle and work-life balance : We want you to stay healthy through
habits that you can control. We don’t want to succeed at the cost of your health. In
fact, we never want to take anyone’s health for granted. We want a very healthy
atmosphere at work at all times – both figuratively and literally. We will provide access
and time for regular health checkups, exercise facilities, life-balance and nutrition
education seminars. We strongly discourage employees from smoking as we believe that
nothing good comes of it. We will even sponsor you and help you quit if you need
professional help.
• Forced time-off : Each
year, Arctern ensures that each employee takes some time-off to recharge
their batteries.
• Personal support : We want employees to feel comfortable discussing their ongoing
personal challenges they face with their managers especially if it is to find a way for
the company to help or accommodate them or just need their understanding. Everyone’s
situation is unique and the company may be able to accommodate the needs of each
employee on a case by case basis as long as it does not compromise on our code of
ethics or exercises favoritism.
We want our employees to be extremely proud to be working at Arctern. We want to
provide them an environment where the company helps them exceed their own
expectations of themselves. As they go through the ups and downs of life, we want them
to always feel that they can count on their company to guide them and be a positive
influence in their lives.
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Customer Evangelism |
Work
for them
| We exist
to serve our customers first. We are always on a mission to increase our
customer’s profitability and to improve their lives. Only by doing so successfully and
consistently will we benefit as employees and stakeholders for the long term.
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Listen
to them
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consumers of our services our customers are the best source of information and objective reference on the
output of our efforts. They are also usually the best source of information on market trends
and competitive intelligence. We want to always listen to them, understand their pain and
requirements, and build effective solutions around their needs. In their needs resides
the next big solution! By solving their problems, we believe they will remain our biggest
promoters and will be more powerful than any paid advertising campaigns we undertake.
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Treat them very well
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We trust our customers. We believe that our customers want to see us succeed. Pleasing
every customer is extremely important to us. We will always go out of our way to act in the
best interest of our customers. |
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Work environment
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Code
of Ethics
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This is the building block for the character of our company – we will deal with the highest
level of integrity, honesty, trust, righteousness, well mannerism, respect, patience,
consideration, maturity, rationale, communication, and professional approach – with each
other, across departments, across countries, with - prospects, customers, vendors,
investors, competitors, press,and shareholders – with all entities that touch the company.
We will always be forthright in all our dealings and communicate truthfully. Our company
character will build trust which is a pre-requisite to long lasting successful relationships.
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Infrastructure
| To effectively compete in the
global marketplace and serve our customers with the highest
standards requires that we continue to invest in the latest infrastructure and practices not
limited to facilities, technology, and tools. We will always provide a work environment that is state-of-the-art, secure, enjoyable, and inspiring.
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Preservation
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We will strongly discourage any waste or unnecessary opulence and be an environmentally
friendly company.
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Global culture |
Utilize
global skills
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With an increasing global scenario and economic inter-dependence between more and more
countries in a networked world, we will remain a company that harnesses the best of breed
practices and resources around the world. We encourage, respect, and tolerate cultural
diversity and view it as a critical advantage in building Arctern as a global leader.
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Identify global needs
| We will identify customer needs
from a global standpoint and factor it into the design,
development, and distribution strategy of our services.
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Connect
globally
| We will invest in the latest
technologies to bridge and narrow the physical distances
between our customers, employees, and other constituencies around the world. We will also
invest in multi-cultural awareness programs to build better partnerships and help benefit
our customers and employees across different geographies. Arctern will aim to be a
company without borders driven by its own global culture yet respecting local practices.
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Give Back |
| Each year we will give back to the underprivileged and
non-profit organizations that help the needy. Giving
back can be in terms of financial aid as a percentage of annual profits,
volunteering services, donations of services, sponsored
events, and so on. |
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