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The company interacts with the community to clean up local areas and support their selected charity in preparing for Christmas and other key functions. Raising money for selected charities includes bake-off competitions, summer fun days, selling raffle prizes and volunteering time.
The company interacts with the community to clean up local areas and support their selected charity in preparing for Christmas and other key functions. Raising money for selected charities includes bake-off competitions, summer fun days, selling raffle prizes and volunteering time.
The firm believes in collaboration, leading to many breakthroughs, from medical miracles to simple consumer products that make every day a little better. The 125,000 employees in 60 countries are united in a common mission: to help people everywhere live longer, healthier, happier lives.
Everyone has a sustainability objective on their job description. Community initiatives include working at food banks, lunch clubs for kids whose parents can't afford to feed them an extra meal in school holidays, and redecorating a local volunteer centre for disabled adults.
Action Against Hunger gave the company four problems to solve, one for each floor. The company also tackles issues that other companies avoid, including a session on the gender pay gap where innocent shared data and took questions from the audience.
Leaders are approachable and accessible – they sit with everyone else at open-plan desks. Douglas is often there and can be quizzed. They're visible in leading sessions at company meetings, and lunchtime ‘chatwiches'.
There are monthly meetings with the Managing Director regarding employees' development, setting goals to develop skills, and how they've implemented training so far. Due to recent growth, appraisals are now every three months.
Departmental strategies are based on the company values, which are used in meetings and talked about regularly. Management also attend annual fun activities to get them involved and interacting with people outside of work.
Departmental strategies are based on the company values, which are used in meetings and talked about regularly. Management also attend annual fun activities to get them involved and interacting with people outside of work.
Hanson Wade have bought more working space to create a better working environment. This has led to a huge increase in collaborative meetings. People can work how they want – standing up, in their quiet reflection room, or on a sofa with their feet up.
Everyone gets £100 each year to spend on anything that involves learning something new. There's one day off per year for charity work, and the winner of ‘Wader of the Month' receives £200 to spend on an experience.
Hanson Wade have bought more working space to create a better working environment. This has led to a huge increase in collaborative meetings. People can work how they want – standing up, in their quiet reflection room, or on a sofa with their feet up.
Handle Recruitment run ‘huddles', where teams gather in pods to discuss successes. There's also an annual trip to Barcelona to celebrate reaching business targets and the company pays for Friday drinks to encourage team-building and communication.
Handle Recruitment's consultants work with the Amy Winehouse Foundation to deliver ‘Employability Workshop Masterclasses'. They also back Music Support, a start-up charity helping musicians and individuals to overcome addictions, and Haringey Shed, a performing arts company for young people.
Handle Recruitment's consultants work with the Amy Winehouse Foundation to deliver ‘Employability Workshop Masterclasses'. They also back Music Support, a start-up charity helping musicians and individuals to overcome addictions, and Haringey Shed, a performing arts company for young people.
Many employees opt for home working, or a home-work balance to help accommodate childcare and their personal circumstances. Staff also benefit from shifted hours that make caring for loved ones easier, or simply make the commute to work slightly more bearable.
By working in different parts of the office during the year and being a member of each team, leadership is available at any time for all members of staff. Managers also regularly participate in team activities and bonding.
Many employees opt for home working, or a home-work balance to help accommodate childcare and their personal circumstances. Staff also benefit from shifted hours that make caring for loved ones easier, or simply make the commute to work slightly more bearable.
The company offers a blended approach to training for managers and team leaders, and, to ensure consistency, everyone in the business experiences the same learning sessions and one-to-one support.
Week-long team building exercises are held where employees are put into teams, mixing with different departments all with the same goal to win the tasks set. Prizes for the team winners and for individual winners include weekends away and all-expenses-paid dinners.
Week-long team building exercises are held where employees are put into teams, mixing with different departments all with the same goal to win the tasks set. Prizes for the team winners and for individual winners include weekends away and all-expenses-paid dinners.
Since 2014, Freebridge have run Providence Street community centre in King's Lynn, taking over when it was underused and in decline and turning it into a thriving, refurbished and buzzing resource. The centre provides office space for partners, such as the NHS, and provides a venue for local groups and activities.
The management team are role models for the values and demonstrate them in their engagement, both internally and externally. They have led on the evolution of the values, empowering employees to determine what each value means.
Freebridge have a number of practices in place to ease workplace stress. This includes access to counselling, which helps individuals to address personal stress, and coaching to empower employees to find their own solutions to workplace challenges they may be facing.
EW have a total of 68 solar panels on the roof of the Farnborough office. To date, the company have created over 42 MWh of energy and saved over 16,000kg of carbon dioxide emissions. Staff are updated regularly on how much energy they are creating.
Employee wellbeing is supported with free sports massages, acupuncture and osteopathy. The company also offers full health screenings to staff, as well as an annual, free flu jab to all staff in the office.
Employee wellbeing is supported with free sports massages, acupuncture and osteopathy. The company also offers full health screenings to staff, as well as an annual, free flu jab to all staff in the office.
Each year, Elvis holds a summer event, which is attended by the whole company. The build-up to the event includes a month-long theme selection process that encourages cross-departmental collaboration and creative thinking across all levels.
Each year, Elvis holds a summer event, which is attended by the whole company. The build-up to the event includes a month-long theme selection process that encourages cross-departmental collaboration and creative thinking across all levels.
Last year, staff participated in 1,500 hours of training spread out over 50 sessions, 70% of which were externally run. Training now takes place every month across every department in the agency.
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