Rank 7: Striking The Right Balance

Company Name: Junglee Games

Industry: Information Technology

India HQ: Gurgaon

Employee Strength: 439

Junglee Games stand for employee care and opportunities. Its benefits include personal development, health development and gaming benefit, childcare support and others. The leaders keep a keen eye on identifying talent and leveraging them. Creating a new role based on a candidate’s abilities when hiring to fluid career movements based on abilities and training for the new roles with an unlimited professional development budget, are inspiring growth stories.

Bringing In Best Practices

At the advent of the pandemic, Junglee Games introduced The Unplugged Weekends to address the work-life balance and employee burnout by encouraging them to take time off by extending the weekend on Fridays or Mondays that could be availed twice a year. 

The company also created ‘Make a Difference’ committees, where aside from the formal means of communication and conversing, casual celebrations at the Junglee Games are a regular affair. During this time there are no distinctions between boss and newcomers. Everyone is on an even field and interacts as friends. 

Also, the leadership team via the centre of excellence program hosts sessions once a year or twice a year focused on life skills, leadership and health. They cover topics like conflict management, staying healthy and elements of effective leadership. The training presentations are publicly shared so the leaders can further train their teams in different aspects and the development throughout the company continues.

Employee Equality

“Here at Junglee Games, every employee is treated equally irrespective of their designation, experience and stream. Ideas are always encouraged and rewarded. There are ample growth opportunities. Work-life balance is stressed, and organisation understands its importance on the employees’ mental health. Overall, it has been a very rewarding and satisfying experience so far,” comments a Junglee Games employee.

Speaking on the leadership, another employee adds, “The management put in a lot of effort to enhance inclusivity and build a productive and conducive environment. We have ‘GTK session-get to know’ monthly, where people from different teams are randomly matched and meet over company-sponsored coffee. It is such a small and great initiative as it promotes understanding of a person outside work. I have built good connections in different teams which have helped me in learning new things about their work and the person.”