Witan Jardine

Recruitment consultants at Witan Jardine spend their days helping jobseekers, safe in the knowledge that they are among the happiest employees in the UK. Staff at the London-based company strongly recommend working for the organisation, returning an 83% score. Andy Winterburgh, the managing director, has been with the privately-owned firm, founded in 1996, for 10 years and runs it on sound moral principles (80%). People feel their manager talks openly and honestly with them (84%) and supports them in their work (85%). Staff are treated to a weekend in a European destination once a year for a summer party and gestures such as these make them feel the value of their contribution is acknowledged (shown by an 82% positive score). Employees, whose benefits include maternity pay above statutory requirements, report their health is not suffering because of work (80%) and that they have not had recent stress-related symptoms because of their job (79%). They say their training is of great personal benefit to them, with a 77% score, and feel that the job is good for their own growth (79%). The company supports staff studying for accounting and marketing qualifications by funding their courses and allowing them study leave.