We ensure that environmental awareness is embraced by everyone in our company through five training programs titled Clean Environment-Recycling and Zero Waste, Clean Environment-Ecological Balance, Clean Environment-Environmental Sensitivity, Digital Devices and Our Environment, and Environmental Awareness.

In line with our collaboration with the circular recycling movement Nivogo, we take idle and unsellable products from companies, refurbish them, and put them back on the market.

By 2025, we aim to produce 90% of our collections from recycled materials.

At Orka Holding, we have taken significant steps to create a strong ecosystem with our sustainability investments. Our approach to sustainability is holistic, evaluating the risks our planet faces and establishing a human resources culture that will implement corrective and preventive activities. This forms the basis of our Human Resources philosophy. In this context, our Human Resources – Education and Development departments play an active role in designing the company culture that will implement the necessary strategies for sustainability and in creating the necessary level of awareness among employees.

The training, development, and cultivation of employees and leaders who possess environmental consciousness and responsibility values are considered within the responsibility scope of our Human Resources department. Ork Holding’s corporate culture supports gender equality and respects human rights, valuing the diversity of its employees.

At Orka Holding, we have been conducting training and development activities that enhance the competencies of our team, enabling them to perform their duties with high performance, thereby paving their career paths, since our foundation. With our in-house Orka Academy, our aim is to create continuously developing professionals who believe in continuous improvement, produce timely and quick solutions with an analytical perspective, have strong communication skills, and particularly create a sustainable human resource. Orka Academy has a significant mission within the company to transform potential into performance and merge company goals with personal goals. Orientation programs are organized in both online and offline formats for centers and stores specifically to help new employees more easily adapt to their new roles by familiarizing them with the corporate culture, organizational structure, and end-to-end business processes.

Individual development plans that include professional, technical, and personal development trainings for our entire team are designed based on the combination of training needs analyzed from performance evaluation results, sectoral developments, and our company goals, and are shaped according to the competencies required for each position. Our training plans are developed in collaboration with expert training companies and established universities. Istanbul University and Kültür University are among the universities with which we conduct continuous education programs. There are one hundred seventy-nine (179) main topics in personal development and professional training programs developed in collaboration with various institutions, covering Analytical Management, Data-Driven Decision Making Techniques, Retail Management, Store Mathematics, Emotional Intelligence in Communication, and others. Participation in summits, seminars, and conferences is also planned.

In creating our Annual Training Plan, we opt for remote training organization, taking into account the environmental costs such as travel for overseas and domestic trips, and meeting and accommodation organization, to reduce our carbon footprint. We mitigate the adverse effects on the environment by conducting meetings via online meetings.

On our e-learning portal, Orkaakademi.com, we offer all internal training programs. In addition to professional training, a wide range of trainings including Orientation, On-the-Job Training, Occupational Health and Safety, Sales and Service Principles modules are provided online to our entire team. Current announcements and surveys are conducted through the system.

We have developed various tools to leverage digital resources in education. In this context, a Training Library has been established on Orkaakademi.com, corporate booklets have been published online, video-based trainings have been developed, and assessments are now conducted through e-exams.

The trainings aim at individual development planning for the next position, focusing on fundamental functional and leadership competencies. The career plan includes digital indicators for performance, competency, technical skills, and verbal and numerical perception, and every employee who succeeds in these criteria is prepared for the next position.