GES – Global Energy Services has introduced the #EnergíaPositiva wellness plan, aimed at improving the quality of life of its employees with an investment of more than 30,000 euros during the second half of 2024. The plan includes initiatives such as health, sport and involvement with the community, among others. At the same time, the company has provided its employees with a flexible remuneration plan that allows them to enjoy tax benefits by paying for childcare, transport, meals and education through the programme.
Talent management has been a fundamental issue in companies for years, which has a direct impact on their success. The talent retention and recruitment is a common challenge for companies to face. GES has decided to take up this challenge with #EnergíaPositiva, a plan that contributes to the well-being of its staff and positions it as a company that prioritises the life quality of its employees.
In recent years, GES has changed its corporate culture to promote the well-being of its employees, which involves fully understanding its teams: their potential, their ambitions, and accompanying them in both their professional and personal development. To this end, it has launched a employment plan that includes aspects such as health care, improving mental health, promoting physical activity, encouraging employees’ social initiatives, team building and enhancing knowledge of the company, and to make disability and inclusion more visible in the workplace.
The following are some of the initiatives launched:
- A digital health platform accessible from anywhere, which includes both online and face-to-face medical consultations.
- Personalised psychology and nutrition consultation service.
- Wellbeing platform: online classes, webinars, exercise and nutrition programmes, stress management, mindfulness, etc.
- Promotion of physical activity, setting up teams, organising internal sports competitions and paying employees 50% of the registration fee for sports competitions in which they participate on their own.
- Recognition programme for the community work of employees: Recognition of the social commitment of employees (whether volunteering, cooperation, work with vulnerable communities, etc.), for which GES has allocated 5,000 euros.
- Visit of the different projects that GES is carrying out by administrative and office staff, allowing them to learn in person about the activity carried out by GES in the field.
- Offering information and personalised advice to employees and family members with disabilities, or who may have them.
Recognition of the social commitment of employees
In total, 7 projects have been submitted to this year’s GES Employee Social Commitment Recognition programme. The projects that have been selected for their commitment and impact and to which GES will allocate 5,000 euros have been two projects to improve health and access to potable water in Guinea Conakry and Mauritania, and a third one to make visible the Sotos Syndrome that affects the development of children.
- Access to potable water
The association LERÍN SOLIDARIO POR LAS AGUAS POTABLES works to ensure access to potable water in Kawewol, a village in Guinea Conakry, where the unavailability of clean water is a serious cause of disease. Its next objective is to install a new solar photovoltaic-powered pump on a well, ensuring a constant and clean supply, which will transform the quality of life of 3,000 inhabitants by reducing disease. GES will allocate 2,000 euros to this project.
- Improving the quality of life in Mauritania
The Human COOp Foundation is behind this project, which aims to improve health and access to clean water in Bir Mogrein, Mauritania. It includes health worker training, specialised medical care, disease monitoring, mother and child care, and improvements to the health centre, improving the quality of life for 4,500 local people and displaced Saharawis. GES will allocate another 2,000 euros to finance this project.
- Making Sotos Syndrome more visible
The Spanish Sotos Syndrome Association (AESS) has research projects underway on this pathology, classified as a rare disease that affects psychomotor and intellectual development and causes learning difficulties in those who suffer from this syndrome. The Foundation seeks to raise awareness in society and offer support and guidance to those affected and their families. GES will finance this project with 1,000 euros.
Flexible compensation and training
In parallel, GES has integrated a flexible compensation plan into its labour policies, which allows its employees to design a compensation package tailored to their personal needs. The plan includes childcare, transport, food allowance and training, and provides tax benefits.
GES has completed its plan by focusing on the training of its team and has launched a training platform available to all employees, as well as a training programme for the entire organisation with the aim of developing transversal competencies that reinforce its corporate culture, starting with team leaders and managers.
Furthermore, as part of its commitment to promoting talent, GES is interested in the concerns of its employees by encouraging internal mobility between the company and other companies of its holding company, CL Grupo Industrial. In this regard, the company promotes internal mobility and prioritises internal talent above all.
