What International Women’s Day means to AyataCommerce

As we celebrate International Women’s Day, it’s important we look at the amazing work women are doing and reflect on how we can ensure that we as a company remain inclusive, never shying away from our responsibility to make life easier for our employees. At present, 32% of AyataCommerce is comprised of women, including 44% of our management positions and it is diversified between internal, external, and client facing ones. Our target for next year is to increase the percentage of our female staff to more than 40%. We provide professional development training programmes to our employees throughout their career and encourage an environment of continuous learning alongside the development of new skills.While AyataCommerce continues to grow, we ensure our commitment to our values remains strong, we believe in passion, innovation, and inclusivity. We know from experience that bringing together a diverse range of people also helps us perform our best, whether it be delivering great services, helping our clients, or realising our ambitions to make Ayata the best it can be.We strive to further the development of educated women without compromising between family and work. We do this via offering Hybrid work options through our officially declared Work From Anywhere policy introduced in 2018. We offer flexible working hours which fit each individual employee and offer complete freedom to let them choose their place of work (Home, the Office, a café, a Boat or anywhere they wish).While it’s fantastic to support and celebrate our female colleagues International Women’s Day also offers the opportunity to examine what still needs to be done and how we can help that. We continue to build a friendly and open culture, we aim for a tight-knit, collaborative feel; an environment where people feel comfortable to voice discomfort or concern and contribute. Moving forward we will continue to preserve this culture and build a safe, healthy environment for women to grow and pursue their careers.As we proceed through this year, we are more committed than ever to equality, diversity and building a strong work culture which survives contact with the outside world.But we know that International Women’s Day also offers the chance to make sure women’s voices are heard, so we asked some of our employees how they felt about working at AyataCommerce:

“A 100% retention rate! It is not surprising to me that AyataCommerce holds an employee retention rate of 100% for all these 6 years, coz this place put forth trust and transparency to its employees. Every detail is shared in our All-Hands Meetings which ensures a sense of job security among people who work here. It is also a place where we do not need to put any extra efforts to ensure gender ratio in both top level management and employee end. Personally, I am proud to drive the equal opportunity culture from the front row.“