[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Votem Co., Ltd. (CEO, Tony Kang, www.votem.kr), a manufacturing company specialized in medical equipment is selected as one of the best 100 workplaces in Korea for the two consecutive years.

“GWP KOREA” organizes “the best 100 workplaces in Korea”, which has the 11th anniversary, as aiming to diffuse a consensus as to good workplaces and forming a management culture of that human resource is the right competitiveness in order to contribute the advancement of Korean companies.

“We are selected as a good workplace perhaps due to the company’s emphasis on coexistence management in which the officers and employees grow together with the goal of becoming ‘the company to help the society’,” the official of Votem Co., Ltd. said.

The first thing the company has done to make the company become a good workplace was to implement the five workdays in a week system, which was only for companies whose number of employees exceeded 50, even though Votem Co., Ltd. had less than 20 employees. Thus, the employees could reduce stress and improve concentration.

In addition, the company subscribed to the retirement pension insurance and the accident insurance in order to promote a variety of welfares, and guarantees a minimum of 9 days including weekends for summer and winter vacation. And the company reduces the burden of homecoming through enabling the employees to leverage one day each before and after holiday as paid leave.

Even in the recent recession period, Votem Co., Ltd. is trying to improve the treatment of the employees through paying money gift for birthday and wedding anniversary for the employees and their spouse.

Furthermore, the company organizes overseas travel once a year and many domestic outings in order to form the intimacy between the officers and employees and encourage active communication culture. And the company is trying to form a creative work environment through paying the cost of the activities.

“To create a good workplace is a company’s most important role and responsibility for the society,” CEO Tony Kang said. “We will try continuously to create a workplace in which the officers and employees can fully demonstrate their abilities.”