About Maris Interiors LLP

Maris have a monthly beauty treatment day, where a meeting room is taken over and staff can sign up for a free massage, a haircut or a manicure, it has proved to be a great way for staff to take 20 minutes out of their busy day to unwind. When the sign up list is put up staff always react excitedly and the list is full very quickly. They also provide a monthly lunch to employees. A local restaurant or food stall is selected, vouchers are printed and handed to staff to go and collect their free lunch. They give staff their birthday as a day’s holiday, or a day within their birthday month. In addition, they close down between Christmas and New Year which is free time off for employees. The in house coffee shop, FOAM, provides fresh fruit, cereals, a daily snack and teas and coffees and is a unique and relaxing environment where staff can take a break at any time during the day. The office environment is also very comfortable with AC, plenty of natural light, comfortable seating and showers and lockers. Once a year employees are taken on holiday and gifted the time off. Any employee in a time of need is fully supported, Maris have paid for medical bills for four employees this year who have faced challenges. This year they decided to offer free health checks to employees where they brought in a doctor for a few days to examine vitals and discuss any issues with employees.

Maris base their business process around a Four Stage Plan. The Four Stage Plan takes the four different areas of the business; Finding it, Winning it, Adjudicating it, Delivering it, and sets out the ideal process and golden rules within each. Team leaders and department heads are responsible for communicating the process, ensuring the staff understand and employ it. At Maris, they are committed to continuous improvement, increased performance and quality standards and a desire to keep improving on their place in the Top 100 year on year. Their achievement of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001 has allowed them to engage the whole business, involving them in the setting up of new systems, training them in the operation of the systems and asking for input and suggestions for improvement. The prime objectives have been communicated company-wide and have really focused the entire company, as can be seen by the fantastic quarterly results that they have seen this year. It really affirms the commitment to the philosophy, CANI – Continuous and Never-ending Improvement, Maris’ focus to be the best they can.

Maris Interiors believe that they have a wonderfully unique way to reward their employees for their hard work. Each year they plan a trip abroad for the entire company. This year they went to Ibiza for the second time and have just booked to go again in 2017. The employees love it so much they keep wanting to return. They book 3 nights in a top 5-star hotel for their employees, pay for the hotel, their flights and transfers, a party for two nights and a team day out, as well as providing pocket money to those who earn below a certain amount. The annual trip is something that Maris are so fortunate to be able to do for their employees, it is talked about all year round and everyone has a wonderful time. They also reward employees for a job well done with a quarterly team night out. This can be anywhere or anything, for example, one team travelled to the Isle of White for a day and night and got involved in a number of team activities. Other than a number of social activities throughout the year, they also reward staff financially when they have done well through the commission and bonus scheme. Each month the company nominates and votes for the ‘star of the month’, a person in the business who has gone above and beyond. They choose a prize from the tombola, typical prizes are a night’s stay in a top London hotel or dinner for two in a Michelin star restaurant.