Rank 4: Fuelling Equal Power

Company Name: Chalet Hotels

Industry: Hospitality

India HQ: Mumbai

Employee Strength:  137

Chalet Hotels makes noteworthy efforts toward including a diverse range of members in their teams with a special focus on making women employees feel supported and involved. Their training and development initiatives are also commendable in range and detail. Internal growth is bolstered through the many leadership grooming interventions. Overall, there is an environment of care and professional enrichment.

Diverse Practices

The company has a programme to promote women entrepreneurs. Chalet Pink Power is a startup launcher initiative for women entrepreneurs. It’s an initiative to help women to extend their business in shopping malls and test business viability for their products by winning the gratification of free retail space provided by the mall for six months. This is a very successful event and hence an ongoing effort by the company to encourage and promote women entrepreneurs. 

To enhance collaboration to make any project a success, the company seek suggestions from employees. In regards to this, it launched a ‘BrainWave Ideation Platform’, a platform to share ideas that can transform business challenges into opportunities. They encourage ideas that will challenge the current ways of working to make it more effective, efficient and engaging. Employees are asked to share a brief on their proposed idea, along with a plan to implement this idea and the tangible benefits that are estimated as an outcome of implementing their idea. The employee then presents to the BrainWave Committee and the best ideas are recognised and rewarded.

Adding to one’s family by adopting a child is wonderful but involves a lot of planning, legal work and expense. Chalet Malls helps offset the costs and ensures the employees have quality time with their little ones with the adoption assistance policy. The policy is company-sponsored and financially assists employees and provides paid leave for the adoptive parent employee. 

Women Friendly

“The facilities during maternity break and easy come back, women's day celebration, equal opportunity to grow for both men and women, wonder women, adoption policy are some of the policies that make it a great place to work for women. Everyone is allowed to express new ideas and if found viable, they are implemented as well,” says a Chalet Malls employee.