Social – Employees
Our employee engagement framework is governed through a structured, inclusive, and purpose-driven framework that places employees at the heart of organisational decision-making. At the core is the Engagement Management Committee (EMC) across locations, which ensures that engagement is not transactional, but strategic and continuously evolving.
Hindustan Zinc has once again been certified as a Great Place to Work, with a Trust Index score of 89%, higher than the average manufacturing industry benchmark, possible only through its strategic employee engagement approach.
Our employee engagement initiatives are curated to strengthen connection, recognition, learning, and belonging across the workforce:
Ambavgarh Dialogue: Deepening Leadership Self Awareness
Immersive leadership journeys, designed for high potential leaders, offering a retreat style environment for reflection, strategic thinking, and alignment with organisational priorities. It provides candid dialogue platforms where leaders share experiences, challenges, and solutions, fostering authenticity and collaboration. This strengthens our leadership depth and prepares senior talent to steer the Company through its 2x expansion journey.
Sampark & IBU SYNC
Flagship engagement platforms where employees interact directly with the CEO to foster transparency, strategic alignment, and a shared understanding of business priorities and future direction.
Leadership Connect
A focused engagement forum that strengthens relationships between leaders and employees by enabling open conversations and two-way communication to build trust, collaboration, and collective accountability.
Engaging Awards, Rewards, and Recognition
Structured recognition programmes that celebrate high performance and exceptional contributions by acknowledging excellence across teams and roles, reinforcing a culture of appreciation, motivation, and continuous improvement.
Vartalaap
A structured dialogue platform for our extended business partner workforce, designed to strengthen partnerships and operational alignment.
Aagman Sessions
Interactive onboarding engagements for freshers and transfer joiners, helping them connect with the organisation's culture, values, and people, thereby enabling smoother transitions and early engagement.
Cultural, National & Social Celebrations
The celebration of cultural and festive occasions, along with the observance of important days/months such as Engineers' Day, Women in Mining month, and Pride month, etc., complemented by picnics and social gatherings, brings vibrancy and joy to the workplace. These shared experiences foster stronger interpersonal connections and reinforce a collective sense of identity, belonging, and camaraderie among employees.
Inclusive Engagement Platforms
Monthly catch-ups driven by Women Councils ensure representation, gender inclusion, and safe dialogue, reinforcing our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Hindustan Zinc strongly believes that sustainable performance begins with holistic wellbeing. The organisation adopts a comprehensive approach to support physical, mental, emotional, and social health, recognising employees not just as professionals, but as individuals with diverse needs.
A.U.R.A – Awaken, Unwind, Restore & Adapt
A flagship wellbeing initiative that focuses on helping employees pause, rejuvenate, and evolve, both personally and professionally. Through art therapy sessions, wellbeing podcasts, group counselling, and guided meditation, A.U.R.A creates safe spaces for emotional expression, stress relief, and mental balance.
We also ensure to celebrate the Mental Health month to reinforce the importance of psychological safety, resilience, and self care.
Physical Health & Wellness Programmes
Holistic physical and mental health programmes are delivered through reputed institutional partnerships such as The Art of Living, promoting fitness, mindfulness, and preventive healthcare. Apart from these, the Company also hosts sport championships and tournaments revolving around cricket, football, basketball, and volleyball across locations.
24x7 Professional Counselling Support
In collaboration with Silver Oak, Hindustan Zinc provides round-the-clock confidential counselling services - available not only to employees, but also to their families - ensuring support when it is needed most. Under this collaboration, we also launched the habit-tracking app to empower employees to adopt healthy routines, reinforcing long-term wellbeing through small, consistent actions.
Hindustan Zinc enhances the quality of life by creating comfortable living environments and continuously upgrading community infrastructure based on employee feedback, fostering comfort, wellbeing, and fulfilling lives.
Feedback-Led Improvements
Regular internal and external pulse surveys, psychological and physiological safety and other feedback platforms help assess employee wellbeing and living standards
Comprehensive Wellbeing Assessment
Surveys assess key quality of life parameters, including accommodation, medical facilities, recreational amenities, education infrastructure, and community support services, ensuring a holistic understanding of employee needs
Residential Revamp
Feedback insights guide focused interventions to upgrade residential colonies, improve accommodation quality, medical and dispensary facilities, community and dining facilities, and recreational facilities like gyms, children's park, swimming pool, etc., that further improves overall living comfort for employees and their families