Sun Life Philippines Wins Gold, Bronze at HR Excellence Awards for Workplace Excellence

The company earned Gold for Excellence in Hybrid Working and Bronze for Best HR Team, recognizing a people-first workplace built around flexibility, collaboration, career growth, and inclusion.

As workplaces continue to evolve, flexibility alone is no longer enough. Employees also need opportunities to collaborate, develop professionally, stay connected, and feel supported in the way they work.

For Sun Life Philippines, that balance has earned recognition at the recent HR Excellence Awards, where the company received Gold for Excellence in Hybrid Working and Bronze for Best HR Team.

The awards highlight Sun Life’s people-first approach to employee experience and its efforts to create a workplace where employees can perform, grow, and contribute meaningfully.

Building a Workplace Around People

Sun Life says its workplace strategy focuses on creating an environment that allows employees to collaborate effectively while maintaining flexibility in how they work.

The company also places emphasis on professional growth, employee well-being, learning, engagement, and inclusion.

For Sun Life Philippines Country Head and CEO JJ Moreno, these efforts ultimately connect employee experience with the company’s wider purpose.

“These recognitions are meaningful because they reflect our ongoing efforts to create a workplace where our people feel supported, empowered, and connected,” Moreno said.

He added that when employees are able to bring their best selves to work and find fulfillment in what they do, they are better positioned to help Filipinos pursue lifetime financial security and healthier lives.

Gold for Excellence in Hybrid Working

Sun Life’s Gold award for Excellence in Hybrid Working recognizes how the company has adapted its workplace practices to changing employee needs.

Rather than treating hybrid work simply as a question of where employees perform their jobs, Sun Life’s approach combines flexibility with opportunities for collaboration, learning, and engagement.

That balance matters as organizations continue adjusting to work environments where employees may move between physical and remote settings.

For Sun Life, the goal is to give people flexibility without losing the connection, support, and development opportunities that come from being part of a larger workplace community.

Bronze Recognition for the Sun Life HR Team

The company also received Bronze for Best HR Team.

Sun Life’s Human Resources team is led by Michelle Cordero-Garcia, Chief Human Resources Officer of Sun Life Philippines, and plays a central role in developing initiatives that support employee well-being, career growth, inclusion, and workplace engagement.

The recognition places the team behind Sun Life’s employee experience in the spotlight.

The page 1 image supplied with the release shows the Sun Life HR team onstage at the awards ceremony, with the backdrop identifying the company’s Gold recognition for Excellence in Hybrid Working.

Adapting as Employee Expectations Change

The way people think about work continues to change.

Flexibility, career development, meaningful engagement, and well-being have increasingly become part of how employees evaluate their workplace experience.

Sun Life says it continues to evolve its practices in response to those changes.

Its approach seeks to maintain flexibility while creating opportunities for employees to work together, continue learning, and participate in a workplace culture where they can grow.

The company also sees inclusion as an important part of that environment.

Employee Experience Connects to Customer Impact

One of the more meaningful ideas behind Sun Life’s workplace strategy is that employee experience does not end inside the organization.

By supporting employees, Sun Life aims to strengthen the work they do for the advisors, clients, and communities they serve.

That creates a direct connection between workplace culture and business purpose.

A workplace where employees have the tools and support to perform well can ultimately influence how effectively an organization serves the people who depend on it.

Continuing to Build Workplace Excellence

Sun Life says the latest awards are not an endpoint.

“We thank the HR Excellence Awards for this recognition and honor the Sun Lifers who made it possible,” Moreno said.

“As the workplace continues to evolve, Sun Life remains committed to building a culture where employees can succeed, innovate, and make a difference.”

The company’s two awards tell one clear story: workplace excellence today is not only about policies or benefits.

It is about building an environment where flexibility, connection, growth, inclusion, and purpose work together.

For Sun Life Philippines, that is the employee experience it intends to keep developing as the future of work continues to change.