AwanBiru Technology Berhad - Annual Report 2021

Virtual Brown Bag Sessions Keeping Our Employees Well Primed As part of our effort in upscaling our employees in this new normal, we have primed them for digitalisation through acquisition of various competencies, on top of our regular provision of training courses and workshops for their learning and personal growth. The competencies range from soft skills, technical competencies all the way to professional certifications, in order to future-proof our employees, whilst driving resiliency against any form of disruptions and digitalisation. While being in line with the short and long term objectives of our eighth sustainability goal of employee development, this approach allows us to empower them to be the best version of themselves, enabling our employees to lead the digital transformation and cloud journey of our customers and stakeholders better. In the financial year under review, multiple credentials and certifications were acquired by our employees, encompassing 11 technical credentials and professional certifications, and 18 sales credentials under both Google Cloud and SAP offerings. Training and Development Benchmarking against our previous performance on training and development, we have recorded a healthier 7.6 average training man days per employee despite our work from home arrangement, versus 2.85 in the last financial year. This is due to the better adoption rate by the employees of our new online learning hub for them to continue upskilling and reskilling themselves virtually anywhere. Our adoption of online learning via said learning hub has also enabled Awantec to keep our training investment at an optimal level while delivering better overall training aggregate. This is evident from the significant increase of 167% average training man days for the financial year under review against our performance in the last financial year, with less than 0.2% increase from total training investment made in the same financial year. We will continue to leverage on our online learning hub to instill a true lifelong learning culture where our employees may learn, unlearn and relearn continuously from anywhere, on any time, device and subject of their choice. In pivoting ourselves to digitalisation, we have conducted a series of virtual brownbag sessionswithour employees to help them keep pace with the new technologies and methods that they can leverage on to deliver better. Carried out in the form of casual talks between our product experts and employees, the brown bag sessions cut across the means of capitalising from cloud-based services and various tools such as Google Appsheet, Data Studio, Percipio and more to support their administrative tasks as well as their training and development. Sustainability | Awantec 69 Annual Report 2021