Johannesburg, 28 Feb 2025
Huawei South Africa’s position as a top employer, as certified by the Top Employers Institute for the eighth year running in 2025, reflects the company’s substantial impact on the local employment landscape.This sustained recognition highlights Huawei's deep dedication to its employees and the company's significant investment in creating a positive work environment.
Positioning itself as a leading force in the country’s growing ICT sector, Huawei strives to work in ways that contribute positively to local economies and empower communities with skills and access to the latest digital technologies.
The institute has certified over 2 400 companies from 125 global companies based on their HR strategies and positive contributions to the world of work.
Huawei's presence in Africa too has been recognised, with a total of 14 of its representative offices in sub-Saharan Africa receiving Top Employer accreditation, a notable increase from 12 last year. This achievement marks the first-time participation of Zimbabwe and Namibia, joining South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Kenya, Nigeria, Angola, Ghana, Botswana, Mauritius and Uganda, all of which have earned the esteemed Top Employer seal.
Huawei is also proud to be ranked among the top 20 telecommunications companies on the continent.
“Our ranking in the Top Employer Programme is a badge of pride for our teams. It also serves as a benchmark for us to consistently assess ourselves against as we continue to reflect on how we innovate and create a world-class working environment,” said Huawei South Africa HRD, Eric Ma. Attracting the world’s best and brightest ICT talent starts at home, says Ma. “This means actively appreciating and rewarding employees for the skills, capabilities, dedication and experience they bring to the workplace every day.”
The Top Employers Institute Certification, a recognised benchmark for excellence in HR, assesses a company’s HR practices based on a survey that encompasses six HR domains. This includes areas like work environment, talent acquisition, learning, diversity and inclusion, and well-being.
What kind of workplace is Huawei striving to build?
Huawei has maintained its strongest performance in talent strategy, ethics and integrity, career development and leadership. “An achievement we don’t take lightly,” says Ma.
In 2025, Huawei will emphasise improvements in its diversity, equity and inclusion programmes, which continue to be central to attracting the best local talent from across South Africa’s diverse social spectrum.
Another focus for the year will be the company's employee listening programmes. These will be strengthened to ensure that every worker has their voices, ideas and solutions heard. This emphasis on continuous improvement reflects a philosophy that keeps Huawei in the lead as the most popular employer in Africa.
Lindiwe Udzembwe, an HR specialist focused on employee relations, says participating in Top Employer allows Huawei to continually improve its HR practices. “This is especially true as the world of work keeps on evolving, we can review our own practices and remain a competitive employer of choice.”
As South Africa continues its development journey and digital transition, Huawei is committed to growing the domestic ICT sector by investing in talent, innovation and an inclusive company culture.
Top Employers Institute CEO David Plink shared: “Consistency in a not-so-consistent world. In a time of rapid change – where technological, economic and social factors continually reshape our world – these extraordinary times bring out the best in people and organisations. This year’s Top Employers Certification Programme showcases the resilience of the Certified Top Employers 2025, who consistently prioritise the growth and well-being of their people as they enrich the world of work.”
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Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organisation for a fully connected, intelligent world.
Huawei's end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, we create lasting value for our customers, working to empower people, enrich home life, and inspire innovation in organisations of all shapes and sizes.
At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. By December 31, 2023, Huawei had 207,000 employees, more than 114,000 of which were R&D employees (55%). In 2023, our total R&D spending reached CNY164.7 billion, representing 23.4% of our total revenue. We operate in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people worldwide. In 2023, through the efforts of all employees, the company achieved an estimated annual sales revenue of CNY704.2 billion, aligned with forecasts. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.
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