[A great workplace] for me, is a people-first company. It's always thinking of what people would benefit from, what people would really appreciate depending on the times. It's really thinking about the people as a whole or the employees as a whole and not just some who would benefit for it.

Actually, we're very proud to be Certified™ as a Great Place To Work ®. We always value what our employees or what we call the members say about the organization. But when we started to get Certified as a Great Place To Work, we really wanted to check how our own standards fair up against in the industry. We wanted to see whether we are up to the global and world class standards such as the other Great Place To Work companies.

A great workplace is a place where our team feels engaged, they feel happy to be there, they come to work motivated. From a hospitality point of view, having a big, happy smile that does not come by accident. It comes from providing a workplace where people feel safe, secure, and ultimately, enjoy coming to work every single day. That's really, from a Hilton perspective, that's what we aim for every single day.

Great Place To Work® Certification™ emphasizes the culture that we have in the company. It also echoes what our company does—not only about the environment that we have in the company or Lingaro Philippines, but it also reflects how we do business, how we do it, and how it reflects on the people. How we do it holistically.

Great Place To Work® Certification™ is a really good way to validate all the hard work that myself and the team have done. We've been in business for eight years now, and all of it has been about empowering people to do their best work, to have an impact on the community—not only on their own lives but also on the businesses they support. Great Place To Work has really helped us not just validate that what we've been doing is good, but also gain insight into what else we could be doing.