Bridge India: Where Quality Craftsmanship & Fun Confluences Date:   Friday , June 26, 2015 Born in Holland, Bridge is a proud venture of Hugo H. Messer - who had no prior experience in outsourcing or offshore businesses, but possessed huge zeal to architect a better world. With its roots in Netherlands and development centers in India and Ukraine, the company has successfully evolved to be an international company that proffers services like global IT staffing, consulting and IT offshore solutions which embraces three delivery models namely complete delivery, team delivery and resource delivery. Meet the People-Friendly Bridgy\'s Immensely passionate about making the organization people-friendly, Bridge stands proudly on its essential and the deep-rooted core values like entrepreneurial culture, openness, integrity, help, appreciation and joy. Besides, the success factors like open ambience, flexibility for career progression and ethos like respect for each other have been the biggest drivers in not only attracting the talents, but also luring the best ones to continue with the organization over the years. Not to mention, these factors also have pushed the company to become an organization with low attrition rate. \"Working with Bridge each day has given me a great experience. Bridge is the perfect place for those who are looking for challenging opportunities and thereby to take on bigger responsibilities and learn. The culture here has made HR job a less challenging task. Each person is given complete freedom to execute his/her ideas in the best possible way. It\'s a great family feeling that I experience here! I am very proud to be a part of Bridge,\" quotes Sanitha Jubin, HR Manager, Bridge India. Evoke the \'Leader\' Element in You Bridge firmly believes that whoever joins them is a leader himself. Thus, it owns a long-practiced tradition of further strengthening the leadership abilities by ingraining training, mentoring and personal development strategies. While the major focus of the enterprise is shed on job aspirants who own more than three years of experience, Bridge has never disowned less experienced personnel, but empowers them to be the master of the technology through adequate training given by the Architects in the respective technology. Be it individual or a group, technical or personal, trainings at Bridge endeavor to mold the employees to be a complete professional. Initiatives like quarterly Personal Development Meetings (PDM) are conducted for appreciating the employees existing skills and suggestions to improve them personally. While trainings push their innovation boundaries to set an empowering milieu, the institutionalized values like responsibility and openness have been making their endeavors a success. Hugo Messer, CEO, Bridge avows, \"Since the inception of Bridge India in 2008, I have gone out of my way to create a \'European\' culture in Bridge. The two core values that we\'ve put central to our culture are \'openness\' and \'responsibility\'. We hire for openness and train people from the day they walk into our office. Responsibility means that each person inside Bridge is 100 percent accountable for the results of his own work. Even the rewards are tied to the feedback which the individual gets from the customer. We avoid hierarchy in order to stimulate responsibility (nobody can hide behind a manager)\". There is a Room for Recreation Too Juggling both the growing needs of workmanship and stress-free personal life rather comes easy for 80 happy Bridgy\'s, as they have the facilities to enjoy both their work and life, thus imbibing a family aura within the organization. The recreational facilities at Bridge cover lunch buffet, indoor games, monthly get-together, yearly trips, birthday and festivals\' celebrations. While these factors have contributed towards augmenting the tenacity of the employees, the initiatives like \'Yearly Theme\' - where people together work towards a particular goal set for that respective year and \'Star Performer of the Month\' have equally ensured healthy growth, resulting in productive employees. This has also established a favorable work place for the women employees, thereby begetting happy and safe organization to reckon on. Client\'s Testimonial: \"Bridge is an organization with a personal touch and that makes for a very pleasant cooperation. We only had to tweak our work processes a little for our programmers,\" affirms a happy customer of Bridge.