Alternatif Bank provides great flexibility to its personnel and offers them the opportunity to work anywhere for 4 weeks of their choice with ‘Alternatif Yaz’ practice. Alternatif Bank personnel that work remotely also have the opportunity to enjoy summer with their families and loved ones.

Alternatif Bank, frequently associated with its innovative projects implemented to enable its personnel to establish balance between work and life, maintains its activities without interruption in order to offer happier, peaceful, and efficient work environments to its personnel with its perspective based on ‘people oriented’ approach. In this context, the Bank continued its “Alternatif Yaz” practice, which it launched in 2022, this summer as well, enabling its personnel to work anywhere for 4 weeks of their choice in July and August. This practice enables Alternatif Bank personnel to enjoy the summer with their loved ones, while having the opportunity to experience the peace of a balanced work-social life rhythm. Besides, Alternatif Yaz practice is not limited to Istanbul; all head office teams who currently work under hybrid system can benefit from this practice, wherever they are across Turkey.

Alternatif Bank Human Resources EVP Bike Tarakcı, indicating that happiness of personnel was one of the cornerstones of the Bank’s success, stated “We believe that achievements in business life is only complemented by happiness in personal life. When summer comes, each of us want to spend more time with our family and loved ones. With our well-regarded practice ‘Alternatif Yaz’, which we implemented under AlterFlex, our new generation work model that offers remote work and flexible working together, we provide our personnel with this opportunity. Alternatif Bank personnel have the freedom to work at holiday destinations, when they are with their families, or anywhere they want. Our ‘Alternatif Yaz’ practice, which we have maintained since 2022, help us not only continue our work processes without interruption and keep satisfaction of personnel at the top level. We observe in our assessments that this flexibility, which we offer in summer months, increases motivation of our personnel and maximize their creativity and productivity.” 

Tarakcı, providing information about AlterFlex practice, ended his statement as follows: “In addition to our Alternatif Yaz practice, our personnel can work remotely for two days per week and also take advantage of flexible working hours within the scope of AlterFlex. All of our head office employees are able to determine their work hours themselves, based on their needs at times outside our core hours. Currently, almost 40% of our head office personnel, including our subsidiaries, work fully remotely, while almost 45% work under hybrid model within the scope of AlterFlex. We implement AlterFlex in a manner that it covers all of our employees by planning annual additional administrative leaves for our work groups that cannot be matched with remote working or flexible working model due to their roles. We are glad to be the pioneer bank that implemented this mode of work, which will set an example for our sector and which has been successful in terms of inclusion.”

Alternatif Bank, aiming to achieve sustainable success by keeping personnel and customer satisfaction at maximum, will continue to professional development and personal happiness of its personnel with practices such as AlterFlex and Alternatif Yaz, which offer both remote and flexible work together as a reflection of its personnel-oriented approach.