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Fresenius Kabi

Fresenius Kabi encourages an open-minded creative can-do culture that offers employees of diverse cultures and backgrounds a wide range of fulfilling and challenging career and personal growth opportunities, domestically and internationally.

Motivated and dedicated teams work well together, supporting each other and encouraging each other. Empowerment and a strong team spirit are embedded in the culture.

Last year, Fresenius Kabi Germany gave €20,000 (£17,400) to the GoBanyo initiative which helps homeless people in Hamburg. The GoBanyo shower bus offers people the opportunity to shower free of charge and supply themselves with clean towels, clothes and hygiene products.

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Business Services

Fora Space

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Every month two staff exemplifying the company values are presented with champagne and shopping voucher by chief executive, Enrico Sanna, at the all-company update and Fora has a “Team Takeover” every fortnight where different departments create some entertainment for the company on that day

As an alternative to its annual ForaFest weekend away, the company sent staff food and drinks and organised a pizza cook-along, cocktail making class and interactive activities including musical Bingo. It also announced the winners of the Golden Palm awards for outstanding contribution.

Fora encourages biodiversity by building bat boxes, beehives and bird houses and ensures plants in its gardens are bee friendly. Fora only buys food or toiletries that are free from palm oil as well as local produce from ethically sourced suppliers and it uses renewable energy for its electricity.

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Consultancy

Farewill

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Staff get three working days a year to spend on learning and development and last year this was expanded to include volunteering. Farewill also runs remote Friday 5s where people sign up to talk for five minutes about something they have learned that week.

Farewill has sent staff care packages with goodies including desk plants and exotic teas to make working from home a little more fun. A number of non-work social channels have also been introduced on topics from photography and video-games to food and meditation along with film and book clubs.

Farewill has introduced virtual coffee roulettes using an app so team members can have regular coffee meetings with people across the organisation and the Hallway chat app notifies staff to take breaks during the day to encourage water cooler conversations.

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Technology

Equinix

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For the first time, Equinix has been named as one of Fortune Magazine's Most Admired Companies – those with the strongest corporate reputations based on a poll of top executives, directors and analysts. Its EBX (Employee Business Exchange) forum enables nominated representatives to discuss strategies and ensure transparent, effective communication with employees.

Staff interest groups quickly sprang up on Yammer with people sharing personal moments, fun photos, and, of course, communicating about the business. Zoom quizzes and virtual drinks continued hallway conversations. The MD hosts two coffee catch-ups a week with his team and encourages others to do the same.

This year Equinix donated a total of £54,339 to 205 good causes. Food was gifted to The Chapel in Surrey, which went to 150 families; staff backed a joint project between St Mary's Church in Ash Vale and a local coronavirus support group; and raised nearly £1,500 in October's Race Against Hunger.

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Technology

EKM

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A RISE values system – do the Right thing; make a positive Impact; keep it Simple; and always Evolve – shapes the EKM culture and attract the best new talent, recruited mainly using job boards, LinkedIn, and by scouting Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) graduate fairs.

Employees can recognise their colleagues in a “Wheel of Heroes” initiative, to tell them how appreciated it was when they helped out. Names go into a draw and the winner gets to spin the Wheel of Heroes for prizes of anything from £1 toilet roll to £100 or a day's holiday.

EKM has donated to various charities over the past year, including Save the Children. The company also works closely with local schools and CEO Antony has given speeches by video link to classes on building your own business.

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Charity's

East Anglian Air Ambulance

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Chief executive, Patrick Peal, started a social media #walkwithPatrick encouraging staff to post photos of themselves out in the fresh air getting exercise. Many internal briefing notes were written in the first person, with managers explaining how they were feeling and how the pandemic was impacting them personally.

EAAA organised daily activities ensuring everyone had at least one opportunity a day to socialise with colleagues and workmates. These included a film club, a weekly quiz, an art club and Desert Island Discs where a different person was in the hot seat every week being interviewed.

EAAA ran weekly wellbeing seminars on subjects including mindfulness, yoga and stress awareness and gave staff time off to get haircuts after the first lockdown ended. It also organised a challenge with staff and supporters competing in teams to run or walk the most miles during a week in September.

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Marketing & Media Agencies

DRPG

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The single most important method to gauge a manager's performance or success is through their team and peers. The company says if it had to choose one measurement of leadership it would be team engagement, and how the team thrives with its manager.

Lockdown gave the business the opportunity to stop and reflect on the training offered and the result was a complete overhaul of the online training system, moving to a new system with increased content compatibility and accessibility for all. The drpg Academy was also relaunched as the home for all development needs.

People at the company felt everyone was in unprecedented times together and so the focus was on open conversations, transparency and regular updates. Every week saw a TV-style programme give news on what was happening, how drpg was doing, what needed doing, and with people able to ask questions and comment

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Leisure & Hospitality

Dishoom

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Kavi and Shamil undertook monthly catch-ups with all the Babu (management) teams and the new Dishoom Delivery Kitchen workforce. Their priority was to keep employees reassured and informed. More than that, Shamil held a weekly virtual yoga class for anyone on staff to take part in.

Dishoom introduced Flow, a new training app, to provide training for café teams following the extended period away from work. Additionally the company created comprehensive corona safety standards, everyone has taken part in Covid safety training, and people will be made aware of all the required measures going forward.

After communications went online the company wanted to give its people something tangible to hold so the Dishoom Samachar – its own newspaper – was launched. It was delivered to every team members' home. There was also a Zoom kids' party for Chote Dishoom Wallas (the team's children), with a personalised invite sent to their homes.

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Financial Services

Coventry Building Society

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When Steve Hughes started as chief executive in April 2020 there was no option to meet people face to face so he did it virtually through weekly Zoom coffee breaks, attending team meetings and webinars. By the end of December, he had also Zoomed with people from all 69 branches.

The Society's bonus scheme is based on its performance across measures including member service, people and community engagement and risk management. The scheme recognises that all employees contribute to and should share in the Society's success and they all receive the same percentage of their salary, 10% last year.

A Society dog show which got hundreds of entries and a Whodunnit competition were among the many innovative events that kept employees' spirits high last year. Staff also took part in fancy dress team meetings, quizzes, photo and baking competitions, virtual breakfasts and a book group.

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Marketing & Media Agencies

Clevertouch Marketing

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To spread some Christmas cheer, the firm held an online Christmas party which involved a wine tasting for employees and their partners. All employees also received a hamper, a John Lewis voucher and a thank you note in appreciation of their hard work in 2020.

To boost morale, get people together and help support each other and share experiences, employees set up a range of fitness, cooking and cake-making clubs. People can drop in to Weekly Cake Tuesday on Teams, an open forum for staff to share news.

Employees volunteered their time to help out in the kitchen at Winchester Churches Nightshelter on a regular basis last year. At Christmas, Clevertouch employees also raised £250 to provide the residents of two moving-on homes with everything they needed for a festive feast.

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