About Integralis

In January 2011 Integralis launched [email protected], their employee well-being programme. This is a bundle of benefits and schemes focussed around health and well-being. It includes walking and running clubs, access to a travel club for holiday offers, cycle-to-work scheme, free fruit in the office, healthy options at Friday breakfast, quarterly wellbeing talks with an external lifestyle consultant and access to Bupa positive health online. They have also incorporated their existing employee assistance programme, health care and eye care voucher schemes in to [email protected] The programme has been effective in providing a range of options so that all employees can benefit from it in some way, whether it is exercise, mental wellbeing or nutrition that they are most interested in.

A particularly memorable and enjoyable social event held by Integralis, was the Olympics on Ice event in May 2011. 46 employees, from different divisions of the business, came together at a local ice-rink, for a number of team-building exercises. Without knowing what they were getting themselves into, Integralis employees turned up ready and willing to enjoy the event. There were a number of games that took place on the ice, all of which were based on creating trust and confidence in team members. Employees were linked up with other people that they may not have normally interacted with on a daily basis. Trust was a real necessity, especially as employees wore shoes (and not ice-skates), so were even more likely to slip and fall without their colleagues’ help. This was a totally different event, something that had never been done before. It was great fun, and everyone talked about it for a long time afterwards.

The Social and Charity Committee nominates a local and national charity for the company to support each year. Often, Integralis purchase a table at an event or ball, usually for the national charity, and they invite all employees to nominate someone to attend the ball who they believe has gone above and beyond the call of duty in their work. Nominations must be backed up with examples and then the 10 employees who receive the most nominations are invited to the ball. In November 2010, 10 employees attended the Enchanted Ball at the Savoy for Macmillan cancer support.