THIS RECRUITMENT COMPANY knows how to make people feel at home with change, and it has been settling its own employees into the Randstad family. The firm, last year ranked 28 in this list as Origin HR, has been renamed following a 2008 takeover. It has grown to a staff of 83 and has had 40 new recruits in the past six months, while there's a new managing director, Kelly Quirk, who has been in the job for a year. Despite all the changes, team spirit at the London-based business hasn't suffered. Last year, everyone was invited to the Randstad 50th birthday party and people have a lot of fun (an 88% positive score), with colleagues going out of their way to be helpful (84%). The £500-a-head social budget funds netball and football teams, and paid for quad biking and paintballing last summer. The company undertakes projects such as managing recruitment and human resources for the London borough of Hackney, or finding people for different roles at Deutsche Bank. Work is an important part of its employees' lives (85%, a top 20 score). Randstad is a place run on strong values, established by the founder Frits Goldschmeding "to know, serve and trust, striving for perfection and simultaneous promotion of all interests" (82%). Employees say their direct boss takes an active interest in their wellbeing (86%), and deals with issues rather than dodging them (76%). Managers care about people's job satisfaction (80%) and help them achieve their potential (79%). The firm invests £1,000 a head in training, from basic fire safety to complying with equality legislation and last year's Bribery Act. People don't have skills that the organisation fails to use (64%), and they find their jobs stimulating (79%). randstadmanagedservices.co.uk
