Coppell Based Company Excels in Diversity, Healthy Work Environment, and Executive Leadership
COPPELL, Texas, March 17, 2021 — Sagent, a leading provider of communications network equipment, repair and maintenance services globally, today announced that the company is Great Place to Work-Certified™ for the second year in a row.
“Being Re-Certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ during the COVID-19 Pandemic is exciting and reaffirming for our entire company. Like most businesses, our leadership team was forced to rewrite the culture playbook to ensure our core-values were maintained while keeping the well-being of our employees a priority.” says Gordon Smith, CEO at Sagent. “The overwhelmingly positive results of the survey have made it clear that despite the hurdles our company has faced, our employees feel that Sagent is providing a safe and effective option to further their careers.”
Great Place to Work is the global authority on the workplace culture, employee experience, and leadership behaviors that are proven to deliver market-leading services and innovation. Using validated employee feedback gathered with Great Place to Work’s rigorous, data-driven for all methodology, Sagent received the following results:
- 100 percent of people at Sagent are treated fairly regardless of their sexual orientation.
- 98 percent of people at Sagent are treated fairly regardless of their gender.
- 97 percent of people at Sagent are given the resources and equipment to do their job.
- 97 percent of people at Sagent believe the company’s executives fully embody the best characteristics of the company.
- 96 percent of people at Sagent believe the company’s facilities contribute to a good working environment.
The overwhelmingly positive results of the survey issued to employees have made it clear that despite the hurdles Sagent has faced over the last year, their employees feel the company is providing a safe and effective option to further their careers.
“We congratulate Sagent on their Certification,” said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, Vice President of Best Workplace List Research at Great Place to Work. “Organizations that earn their employees’ trust create great workplace cultures that deliver outstanding business results.”
For more information on Sagent and current open positions at the company, visit https://www.linkedin.com/company/sagent/jobs/.
ABOUT SAGENT
Sagent helps you lower your total cost of network ownership while also lowering your risk of downtime. When you need to repair, reuse, replace, or resell your network equipment, you get the advanced business analytics and network support services required to make better decisions. Sagent takes a nothing-to-hide approach that means no hidden data, no hidden risks, and no hidden agenda. That’s why, since 2001, thousands of customers in over 80 countries have turned to Sagent – including tier-1 Telco’s, cable MSOs, Fortune 500s, and even the OEMs themselves. Today, our 130,000 sq. ft. facility ships more than 2 million parts per year. Sagent is the only way to really know what your network knows.
ABOUT GREAT PLACE TO WORK
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees around the world and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Great Place to Work helps organizations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating a high-trust work experience for all employees. Emprising®, their culture management platform, empowers leaders with the surveys, real-time reporting, and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Their unparalleled benchmark data is used to recognize Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies and the Best Workplaces™ in the US and more than 60 countries, including the 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World’s Best list published annually in Fortune. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a Great Place to Work For All™.