Best Companies to Work for in India in 2010

HDFC Standard Life has been adjudged one of the Best Companies to Work for in India in 2010. The company participated in the Great Places to Work® study for the first time and ranked first in the insurance category. It ranked 34th on the Top 50 Best Companies to Work for, in India 2010 list. The company was also awarded for its unique employee initiative - Mission –in-Genius national quiz. The study has shown that HDFC Standard Life conscientiously develops employee talent programmes to keep engaging and motivating its employees. The company provides some unique platforms such as 'Mission in Genius' national quiz. The management is accessible to all at all times and sincerely seeks feedback from its employees through programmes such as 'Sparsh', the study said.

The Best Companies to Work in India is a study conducted by the Great Place to Work® Institute, India in partnership with The Economic Times. The 2010 edition is the seventh study in India, which received overwhelming response from more than 400 companies, making it the largest such study in India. And only 50 companies made it to the Best Companies to Work list!

Received CIO 'The Ingenius 100 2009' Award

HDFC Standard Life has received the CIO ‘The Ingenious 100 - 2009 Award,’ for ATLAS (Agency Training Licensing and Servicing System). Additionally, the company has received the CIO 100 ‘Security Award 2009’ for pioneering LANDesk Management and Security Suite security implementation and taking its security to a higher level of technological excellence.

HDFC Standard has received the CIO 100 Award for the third consecutive year. It had received the 2008 CIO Bold Award for Consultant Corner and CIO Security Award for our initiatives for a secure computing environment, including Sesame - Identity and Access Management. In 2007, the company received CIO 100 award for Wonders and a Special Award in Storage category.

CIO magazine has a long tradition of honoring leading companies for business and technology leadership and innovations through its flagship award program – CIO 100. It’s a celebration of 100 organizations (and the people within them) that are using IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers.

HDFC Standard Life has received the 2008 CIO Bold 100 Award. This annual award recognizes organizations that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology. This year's award theme, ‘The Bold 100,’ recognized those executives and organizations that embraced great risk for the sake of great reward.

HDFC Standard Life has also been one of the five recipients of the Special 2008 CIO Security Award aimed at CIOs, whose pioneering implementations have taken their enterprise security to the next level. This award category identifies innovative and groundbreaking deployment of technologies aimed at creating a secure business infrastructure.

The company received the 2008 CIO Bold Award for its mobile workforce portal and the CIO Security Award for its initiatives for a secure computing environment, including identity management.

HDFC Standard Life's radio spot for Pension Plans won a Silver Abby in the radio writing craft category at the Goafest 2008 organised by the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI). The radio commercial ‘Pata nahin chala’ touched several changes in life in the blink of an eye through an old man’s perspective. The objective was drive awareness and ask people to invest in a pension plan to live life to the fullest even after retirement, without compromising on one’s self-respect

Mr Deepak M Satwalekar, Managing Director and CEO, HDFC Standard Life, received the QIMPRO Gold Standard Award 2007 in the business category at the 18th annual Qimpro Awards function. The award celebrates excellence in individual performance and highlights the quality achievements of extraordinary individuals in an era of global competition and expectations.