Cushman & Wakefield clients across the globe can expect a strong bias for action, a rigorous focus on results, value created through insight, and the right people powered by the right platform — on every assignment, every time. Our capabilities truly reflect client needs, and client success reflects the strategic execution of this business model, our progressive world view, and the value derived from the industry’s top talent worldwide.
Discover the strength in our differences.
Our goal is to attract, develop and retain the best talent from a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, thoughts, ideas and work styles. We strive to maintain a culture of inclusion where all individuals feel respected, are treated fairly, are able to achieve work-life balance, and hold a sense of belonging within Cushman & Wakefield. Everyone is able to bring their best selves to work.
Through workplace management and leadership capability we encourage a culture of diversity, inclusion and collaboration. Everyone is empowered and encouraged to participate and play their part by listening to different viewpoints, opinions, thoughts and ideas and embracing our culture of inclusion.
We aim to create a working environment where diversity, inclusion and collaboration is valued and leveraged to achieve superior business results.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
Cushman & Wakefield is committed to supporting the diversity, equity and inclusion for our people, our clients, our supply chain and the broader communities in which we operate across Asia Pacific. In the region, we take a broad lens on inclusion across our diverse business, with a particular strategic focus on gender, access & inclusion and mental health and wellbeing. We aspire to not only drive an agenda inside our own organisation, but also to create inclusive and equitable places and spaces in the built environment.
In Singapore, Cushman & Wakefield, through its Women Intergrated Network (WIN) inititative and other corporate programs, promotes a wide range of activities that supports our D&I agenda. One of these initiatives is partnering with SG Enable in their mission to enhance employment and employability options for persons with disabilities. We were first acquainted with SG Enable in 2018 in our work with the Ministry of Social & Family Development, where we manage their facilities including the Enabling Village with SG Enable is located. Since then, we have partnered with SG Enable in several activities including hosting Disabilitiy Awareness talks, participation at their career fairs, job shadowing exercise and hosting an event where we invited our clients to share their commitment to D&I. Our goal is to actively engage with SG Enable and partner together to identify meaningful employment opportunities in Cushman & Wakefield.
WOMEN'S INTEGRATED NETWORK (WIN)
The Women’s Integrated Network (WIN) was formed to accelerate the advancement of women working at our firm. The group’s mission is to develop and support the talents of our women team members, and have meaningful impact on the firm’s performance. WIN Singapore consist of all female employees as well as male allies and supporters. WIN continues to expand across the Asia Pacific region with new chapters launching reguarly.
CORENET (COnstruction and Real Estate NETwork)
CORENET is a major IT initiative led by the Ministry of National Development and driven by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) in collaboration with other public and private organisations. Its objective is to re-engineer the business processes of the construction industry to achieve a quantum leap in turnaround time, productivity and quality.
SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FACILITY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (SIFMA)
Founded in 1980, IFMA is the world’s largest and most widely recognized international association for facility management professionals, supporting 24,000 members in more than 100 countries. Since February 2018, the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) has been tasked to spearhead efforts to transform the facilities management (FM) sector under the Real Estate Industry Transformation Map (RE-ITM). In support of BCA’s efforts to uplift the FM sector, Singapore International Facility Management Association (SIFMA) has recently amended its constitution to take in corporate memberships. This allows SIFMA to better represent and serve the industry by amassing more support and awareness for industry development efforts to represent and truly be the voice of the FM industry in Singapore.
Recently C&W Services (S) Pte Ltd attained the Certified Facilities Management Company (Goldᴾᴵᵘˢ), the highest tier of FM Accredidation under the Facilities Management Companies (FMC) Accreditation Scheme. This scheme aims to recognise, raise professionalism, and improve the competencies of FMC, with a focus on those providing facilities management services.
SINGAPORE NATIONAL EMPLOYEES FEDERATION (SNEF)
In the tripartite system, SNEF is the body representing employers, and is dedicated to advance tripartism and enhance labour market flexibility to enable employers to implement responsible employment practices.
PERFORMANCE
Cushman & Wakefield is committed to attracting, retaining and developing the best talent in the industry so that we can put our clients at the centre of what’s next in real estate. Critical to this is ensuring we offer clear career paths and a variety of career progression and development opportunities. However, it is up to you to take personal responsibility for your development and own and manage your career at C&W. In order to put our clients and our people at the centre of what’s next we need to ensure we are giving you the right opportunities for regular feedback to enable you to develop in line with business and personal goals. One of the ways we do this is through our mandatory performance management process, which takes bi-annually at C&W.
LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
We offer a range of learning and development solutions to make sure we keep a strong focus on developing our best people at all levels. Our training includes role-aligned blended programmes, online learning courses, team development sessions and personality profiling. Solutions cover a range of topics that include management and leadership development, business planning and development, operational management, pitching and presenting skills and career development.
Additionally, we offer specific learning opportunities for those people right at the start of their commercial real estate careers. If you are interested, take the first step by joining our talent community.
