Furniture Village

An award winning family business that’s helped our customers create beautiful homes since 1989.
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http://www.furniturevillage.co.uk

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From small beginnings – a single store in 1989 – Furniture Village has grown steadily over time. Thirty four years later there are 55 Furniture Village stores across the nation with over 1,200 team members.

Furniture Village knows that every detail counts. Whether it’s discovering the best people for the job or creating an inspiring place to work with its ‘grow our own’ development programme, the organisation take the time to get to know its people, encouraging and creating opportunities for them to progress quickly within the business.

Furniture Village strive to create a positive, rewarding, and unique business culture for everyone who walks through their doors. Furniture Village reward their people with a long list of benefits, including a generous pay structure, paid holiday allowance, pension plan, childcare vouchers, an employee discount policy, a cycle to work scheme, and more.

The organisation has a team of employees that completed a two day Mental Health First Aid course and are available either face-to-face, by email, or by phone to assist anyone that may be struggling with their mental health. It also has an employee assistance program, WeCare, in which employees can seek advice, across a range of areas, from trained professionals.

Furniture Village also provides an employee rewards program that offers discounts on gym memberships as well as online courses, wellbeing web classes, videos, and audio files.

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Leadership

92% of staff agreed

This organisation is run on strong values / principles

Executive Director, Peter Harrison has always operated on a personal level, an approach that is shared by the Senior Leadership Team and they encourage the organisation work by the statement of "I want to be here, I want to do well, I want to be heard, and I want to be appreciated".

Fair Deal

90% of staff agreed

I am happy with the pay and benefits I receive in this job

All employees receive 'flex points' each month that they can use on the organisation’s chosen employee rewards platform, Perkbox. These points can be traded in for gift vouchers or discounts from a wide variety of retailers and hospitality companies, or used for experience days or to donate money to charity.

Personal Growth

76% of staff agreed

This job is good for my own personal growth

All new employees visit the organisation’s Academy of People Development as part of a three day '7 Steps to Success' employee induction program. It also runs a 'Future Leaders Program' that any employee can register for. This course focuses on 6 development areas that helps to train employees in the skills needed for people management.

Leadership
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92% of staff agreed

This organisation is run on strong values / principles

Executive Director, Peter Harrison has always operated on a personal level, an approach that is shared by the Senior Leadership Team and they encourage the organisation work by the statement of "I want to be here, I want to do well, I want to be heard, and I want to be appreciated".

Fair Deal
%

90% of staff agreed

I am happy with the pay and benefits I receive in this job

All employees receive 'flex points' each month that they can use on the organisation’s chosen employee rewards platform, Perkbox. These points can be traded in for gift vouchers or discounts from a wide variety of retailers and hospitality companies, or used for experience days or to donate money to charity.

Leadership
%

92% of staff agreed

This organisation is run on strong values / principles

Executive Director, Peter Harrison has always operated on a personal level, an approach that is shared by the Senior Leadership Team and they encourage the organisation work by the statement of "I want to be here, I want to do well, I want to be heard, and I want to be appreciated".

Quick Facts

Organisation established in
1989
Total number of UK employees
Number of UK locations
43
Employee average age
69% : 31%
Male : Female employee ratio
69%
Employees earning £35k+
5%
Employee turnover (voluntary)
Quote from the top...

Our People Are Our Greatest Asset

Peter & Charlie Harrison

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