ABBOTT: empowering employees is key to best working place

Commit to invest into local talents

Talent development has been key concern of companies over decades, as the quality of staff-force has a strong influence on the sustainable development of any organization. For that reason, creating a healthy, supportive workplace where employees feel motivated to develop their full potentials and contribute to shared successes is of vital importance. 

As a global healthcare company with the commitment to help Vietnamese people live the best life through the power of health, Abbott believes that no one understands Vietnamese people better than Vietnamese people. And so, investing in local talents has been the core of its business, helping Vietnamese people access easily to state-of-the-art healthcare technologies and solutions of the world through Abbott’s breakthrough products and services.

During the 20-year presence in Vietnam, Abbott has been taking a locally-focused approach to develop local talents to their full potential. Currently, Abbott employs more than 3,400 people across Vietnam. The company offers a comprehensive offerings of health care, wellness and work/life benefits, as well as flexible work options such as job sharing, compressed work-weeks, telecommuting and flextime to help employees find success at work and home.

Moreover, people at Abbott are cared for and helped to lead, grow and succeed at every career stages through training, mentoring, networking groups and extensive development programs that provide support and advancement opportunities.

Abbott’s efforts in developing local talents have been well recognized. Employees highly appreciated and voted Abbott as one of the top 10 best places to work in Vietnam, according to Anphabe’s survey. This also marks the 4th consecutive year that the company has been named in this esteemed ranking.

“It’s great honor for Abbott to be recognized as No.9 Best place to work in Vietnam. This is a strong demonstration of our commitment and efforts in creating an ideal workplace for our talents to develop themselves. We believe that a healthy workplace inspires people to dedicate themselves in improving the quality of healthcare, offering the better healthcare solutions for Vietnamese people, allowing them to reach for their full potential and live their best life.” – said Douglas Kuo, General Manager of Abbott Vietnam.

The employer of choice worldwide

Rooted as a healthcare company, Abbott is motivated to help people live fuller lives through better health, not only customers but also its employees. For many years, its efforts in bringing the best workplace to its people have been well recognized and highly appreciated by both the employees and experts in field.

In addition to the rise to the position No. 9 Best Place to work in Vietnam across industries and No. 1 in terms of Healthcare/Bio-Technology/Pharmaceuticals sector, Abbott is also the employer of choice in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherland, Spain as well as China and Saudi Arabia.   

This year also marks Abbott’s crucial milestones in building a healthy and best working place for its talents globally. For 32 years in a row, Abbott has been honored in the list of World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune, leading the Medical products & equipment industry as well as topping the category in almost all attributes regarding people management, social responsibility, long-term investment value, quality of products/services, global competitiveness, etc.   

More importantly, diversity is highly appreciated at Abbott. The company’s efforts to empower women leadership at work have been recognized by NAFE (The National Association of Female Executives), naming Abbott among “Top 60 companies for executive women” of 2017.   

These recognitions have reaffirmed the company’s commitment in creating best possibilities for employees in order to maximize their potentials and positively make changes to their own lives and others through work that matters.

As an innovation-driven company, Abbott appreciates the core value of people who can create and make changes. At Abbott, investing in people is not only the foundation of sustainable development, but also the first step towards a healthy community by building better career for all employees in the world, including Vietnamese talents.