Kuwait City, Kuwait – In its continued effort to enhance productivity and assure wellness of its employees, Kuwait Finance House (KFH) has announced that it is leveraging modern workplace solutions such as Microsoft Teams to empower its workforce to work remotely, safely and efficiently under all circumstances.

“While we continue to serve our customers in these challenging times, we aim to ensure the highest measures of health and safety for our employees.” Said Talal Al-Mutairi, Deputy General Manager HR Operations and Rewards at KFH.

He added, “this is where technology comes to play a crucial role by enabling us to accelerate remote working for our people while collaborating and executing their activities. We aim to ensure applying the best technology and safety-driven tools to ensure undisrupted communication and smooth workflow among KFH staff, and with all other stakeholders. Platforms like Microsoft Teams electronically bring our people and processes together, so we can continue to deliver superior customer experience.”

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration productivity tool that empowers workforces to chat, meet, call, and collaborate all in one place. While companies across the globe are moving to remote work, Teams delivers a complete, intelligent, and secure workplace solution to empower people in achieving more together.

“The health and safety of employees, customers, partners and communities is a top priority for us at Microsoft, and we will continue our efforts to enable them with solutions to collaborate from anywhere.” Said Alaeddine Karim, Country Manager, Microsoft Kuwait. “We’re working across Kuwait’s public and private sectors to empower their workforce with tools to stay connected and make remote working easier.”

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Kuwait Finance House (KFH)

KFH was established in Kuwait in 1977 and is enlisted in the Kuwait Stock Exchange. KFH Group is a global pioneer in the field of Islamic banking services, where it offers a wide array of Islamic financial products and services, not to mention a high standard of innovation and customer service.

KFH manages its operations in the GCC, Asia, and Europe through over 510 branches, including KFH-Turkey, to offer services for the bank's customers in Turkey, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Germany, and the UAE.

KFH's mission is to achieve highest levels of excellence and innovation in the field of customer service, while developing common interest for all those concerned with the financial institution. KFH's vision is to spearhead the global development in Islamic financial services, and to upgrade the bank into the level of becoming the most sustainable profitable Islamic bank in the world.

KFH's values include cementing leadership through all its businesses, including leadership in the Islamic banking services worldwide, through innovation, superior customer service and the development of its employees. In addition, KFH is committed to all its procedures, and to setting up long-life partnerships with the concerned authorities.

For more information, please visit: www.kfh.com  

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For more information (Press only):
Magdalena Stepien, Middle East Cluster (MEC)
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Ali Sharif, ProGlobal Media
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