Energize - A Community Engagement Program Employee welfare and facility Management

Facility managers today are going beyond their conventional approach to property management and facility upkeep in order to contribute to the needs of the millennial. We are in an era where the spectra of provisions in a workplace ranging from an uplifting interior appeal to organizing community engagement programs are contributing to employee retention and welfare, both of which are stimulants to successful business agendas. Embassy Services, the leading IFM company is constantly harboring into new arenas to cater to the needs of their clients in a more enhanced manner. One of the most critical aspects for businesses in the contemporary world is to have productive and high-spirited employees. It is a basic need to have a motivated taskforce as it translates into larger business goal achievement. Indeed, it’s any great leader’s responsibility to foster the spirit of their employees. As a part of their versatile range of offerings in facility management, Embassy Services powers a special community engagement program called Energize. It is a service that caters to the wellbeing of employees and aims to keep them joyful, stress-free and motivated. This further helps their client’s purpose to have energetic and exuberant teams while they can primarily focus on business prosperity. There is an increasing penchant in some organizations towards work from home policy. Embassy Services brings the feeling of home at work, adding value beyond measure! The organization has taken a holistic approach in working toward employee welfare. Considering employees spend almost half their lives at their workplace, the company considers it to be an innate responsibility to ensure they feel stress-free and rejuvenated. Therefore, Embassy Services orchestrates the Energize Community Engagement program, an initiative driven to build vibrant communities and eradicate stress from the facility. Energize is solely organized for Embassy Office Parks users. The program is designed catering to 5 genres - Sports, Culture, Learning and Lifestyle, Entertainment and Social Responsibility. It has engaged participants till date and helped them nurture their skills and talents besides their peers. The park users get the opportunity to learn new arts and crafts, entertain, celebrate, and most importantly, to rejuvenate at their workplace while having fun. This year-long program is highly versatile in its approach and engages over 2 lakh people working in 8 business parks spread across the country. Sport tops all the other genres as that have abetted the park users to upkeep their fitness quotient, nurtured their childhood interests and help drive healthy competition through inter-corporate sporting events. To refresh this interest and increase their enthusiasm, a medals tally is maintained; every medal won is allocated to the company they represent and the company with the highest ranking is facilitated at the annual sports day event. Cricket, Football, Throw ball, Volleyball, Badminton, Table Tennis, Hockey, and Basketball are the sports covered under this genre to date. Embassy Services is always looking at promoting other sports basis national interest as well, hence our first Kabaddi tournament is all set to happen later this year. Diwali and Christmas is 2 major festivals in all the parks managed by the company and celebrated with opulence. There are Diwali bazaar and a Christmas flea market, both of which promote festive products and display of beautiful decor. The festivities are eco-friendly. The Christmas tree is made of automotive and industrial scrap installed last Christmas which taught park users to see waste in a different sense and to promote the concept of upcycling. Eco-Ganesha workshops are organized during Ganeshotsav where park users can learn to make their own clay Ganesha idols and take them home with a bestowed sense of pride. Individuals have diverse interests, some love music, some like sport and some seek to engage in social service. Through Energize, Embassy Services caters to all their interests by designing a yearly schedule to engage as many park users as possible. Considering that there are so many new art forms and regimes which have taken rise to contribute to the millennial lifestyles, it is only innate that they seek the need to learn and pursue them. Learn Bonsai Art is a niche topic that has gained a lot of attention among the park users. With the help of an expert botanist to conduct a practical workshop on the Art of Bonsai cultivation, the park users are taught an art form that is thoroughly pursued once they engage in it. Smartphone photography is another subject which has helped many of the park users to understand the mechanics and skillset involved with phone photography; contests were also held to provide a platform to showcase their talent. Workout Wednesdays is another initiative where various fitness regimes are conducted every Wednesday to assist with a healthy lifestyle. Calligraphy, Zumba, Self Defense, Laughter Yoga, and Photography are few of the many more learning and lifestyle events organized for the park users. The annual calendar of events include some key properties that have gained huge popularity and goodwill for the company; such as their CSR initiative, ‘Gift-A-Smile’ which is a Christmas fund-raiser that helps raise gifts for over 8000 children across the country, organic farming at the workplace through their Urban Green the initiative, and to provide a big stage to showcase their skills, Embassy Services host ‘Embassy’s Got Talent’ - a flagship talent hunt project of Energize where they seek talent from across all the parks and conduct a finale with a concert featuring some of the biggest bands in the country. Energize Olympics is a series of inter-corporate sporting events that nurture healthy competition among clients. “There is no other facility management company in the country that organizes such a program. This helps us build a great relationship with our clientele while making their employees happy and Energized. The intention is to help our clients focus on their core business while we ensure their work facility is taken care of” said Mr. Pradeep Lala, MD , and CEO of Embassy Services. Embassy Services founded in 1995 is a comprehensive integrated facility management company with over 150 clients currently. They manage 70+ million sq. ft. of space across 12 states in India. With their pan India presence, they currently cover real estate portfolio of commercial, residential, industrial, co-working, retail, hospitality and other properties which gives them a pool of deep technical knowledge to cater to the diverse requirement of the clients and facilities managed by the brand. They are unswerving towards delivering perfection in operation, fully committed towards their duties of environmental sustainability and creating engaging experiences for corporate park users.