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IRIS TEE Opened in 2008, Ubisoft Singapore grew quickly. It is now SE Asia’s largest video game studio, employing 300 staff. With ‘best employer’ accolades under her belt and exciting plans for the future, Iris Tee, Ubisoft’s HR director, talks to Miklos Bolza about what goes into creating an award-winning firm HRD: Ubisoft Singapore was recently crowned the Best Tech Company to Work For by the Singapore Computer Society. How did you develop your corporate culture to create this type of workplace? Iris Tee: It starts with recruiting individuals who are skilful and fit in with Ubisoft’s values to ensure the culture is aligned with our goals and vision. Secondly, it’s about aligning our own actions to these shared core values which we as a group agree are important. From the way we organise ourselves to the way we operate, we make sure everything is in line with these values. HRD: What talent development strategies does Ubisoft have in place? IT: It is only with new knowledge that we can reinvent ourselves and survive in the industry. We make a variety of learning
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