Bayt.com placed 8th for the second consecutive year in the ‘Top Ten Places to Work in the UAE’ award, held recently at the Monarch Hotel in Dubai.

The rankings were compiled by The Great Place to Work Institute, a global research and management consultancy that recognises the best workplaces in more than 45 countries across the world.

"Bayt.com is a people's business and we place great pride in ensuring our pan-regional teams are receiving ongoing state-of-the-art training and support and working in an ideal environment where teamwork and creativity can flourish and ideas can be shared freely,” said Rabea Ataya, Bayt.com chairman and CEO. 

“This emphasis on ensuring continuous sophisticated training, development, coaching and mentoring opportunities are available to our teams and the culture of kindness and innovation that permeates the organisation has allowed Bayt.com to remain at the vanguard of its industry both in terms of cutting-edge technology as well as in terms of client service and support," she sid.
  
“Employees at Bayt.com, affectionately called ‘baytheads’, benefit from a bright, cheerful work environment across the Mena-wide network of offices,” Ataya added.

The company said that employees enjoy, among other perks,  a diligent, systematic approach to training and development, including monthly internal training schedules and generous external training allowances; regular team-building activities; flexible working hours for mothers; a ‘kind culture’, where values are centered around earning the admiration and respect of internal and external communities, and an emphasis on regularly celebrating achievements large and small as highlighted in the widely celebrated and lauded bayt.com monthly ‘’fiestas’’ where all achievements are publicly recognised and rewarded.

"At Bayt.com we are all entrepreneurs and as such all free to dream, innovate, excel and create.  What this has meant over the past 12 years is that our platform has proactively anticipated the needs of our communities rather than reacted to them,” added Ataya. 

“This can be seen in the number of product and service enhancements we have introduced to serve our communities better, including Bayt.com salaries, Bayt.com communities, Bayt.com career watch and the enhanced jobseeker and employer workspaces and search tools which remain the most sophisticated tools in our industry today."

There is also a strong emphasis on corporate social responsibility and improving the communities that baytheads live in as highlighted in Bayt.com’s university outreach programme as well as its numerous charitable endeavours.

The overall feeling throughout the offices is that employees are involved in something much bigger and better than merely a job; they are involved in making the region a better, richer, more prosperous place, the statement said.

In December 2011, Bayt.com won twice at the SME Advisor Stars of Business Awards, being named best in the Technology and Online category and as Business Star of the Year, it said.