What impact has furlough had on employee engagement? Do you know if there a significant difference in the way employees are feeling based on working from home in comparison to key workers out in the field? Best Companies shows how Workplace Insight Pro can help you compare.
Our free Mental Health report takes a look at what Best Companies accredited organisations are doing to support their employees. Assessing what advice is currently available to employers, establish what the mental health trends are in engaged organisations and take a look at the success stories of those businesses with strong mental health practice who have excelled with employee engagement.
Topping the Best Not For Profit Organisations to Work For List as published by Best Companies - Case Study with Stockport Homes outlining how employee engagement has been instrumental in their transformation.
More than 700 organisations took part in the 2020 b-Heard employee engagement survey. Take a look at the application figures and response rates in more detail across private and not for profit organisations.
We asked all those who used the Best Companies employee engagement survey for information about their mental health initiatives. Take a look at examples of what accredited organisations are doing to ensure the mental health wellness of their employees and the impact it has had on employee engagement levels.
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Employee Engagement Specialist Best Companies shares its comparison table feature - gain valuable insight into how you measure up against organisations of a similar size and sector.
Case Study with Best Companies Client UK Power Networks on how managerial engagement insight and engagement workshops have helped increase overall employee engagement levels.
Best Companies provides a simple and concise breakdown of your employee engagement data. Delve deeper into your results to see a powerful way to visualise where areas for improvement lie.
Best Companies client, NHS Business Services Authority highlights the importance of action planning within your employee engagement journey and how involving your employees leads to shared ownership of improvement actions.
Find out how Simon Grosse, CEO of FSP, created a foundation of success through the One FSP Playbook, focusing on winning behaviours and driving individual responsibility for upholding FSP's standard of excellence.
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Discover how DF Capital leveraged Best Companies' data to dramatically improve employee engagement, resulting in a 91% retention rate, a seven-fold increase in lending, and sustainable profitability. Learn how focusing on clear communication and strategic alignment propelled them from Ones-to-Watch to a 3-Star Accredited organisation in just two and a half years.
Keeping hold of the best talent is a challenge that every company faces. Seeking an innovative solution to this problem, ElectraLink introduced a four-day working week. Find out how this practice not only increased recruitment and retention at ElectraLink but also drove organisational success in a range of other metrics.
In November 2024, Linnk Group and its CEO, Jamie Sobrany, were presented with the Best Improver and Best Leader awards. Find out how a combination of Best Companies' data and a people-first strategy not only resulted in these achievements, but also improved retention, recruitment, engagement and productivity at Linnk.
With the ‘great resignation’ seeing more employees than ever choose to move on from their roles, just what is the best tactic for recruiting and retaining talent in the current climate? Here, we review the highlights from this session during February’s Best Companies Live, where we heard from the organisations that are leading the way in their approach to catching the eye of the jobseeker and creating a workplace culture that people don’t want to leave.
Leading and managing people is hard at the best of times but throw in the challenges of the last two years and it becomes particularly difficult. So just what are the hallmarks of great leadership in a changing world? In the following article, we share the highlights from our discussion at February’s Best Companies Live.
The climate crisis is arguably one of the most pressing subjects of our time. But how can making organisational commitments to protect the planet benefit both business and engagement? In the following article, we hear from our panellists speaking at February’s Best Companies Live event as to why being environmentally responsible matters.
Broadcast from Media City in Salford, Manchester, on Friday 18th February, the second edition of ‘Best Companies Live’ revealed which organisations had achieved an employee engagement score high enough to gain a place on the national, regional, and sector-based League Tables of the Best Companies to Work For in the UK.
It goes without saying that in any year improvements in employee engagement should be celebrated. However, for those that have managed improvements so significant that they have made the biggest change to their previous survey score in their size category – it is more important than ever. In this article, we hear from the winners of the Special Award for ‘Best Improver’ at Best Companies Live, where they discussed how they made such an achievement in such a challenging year.
Putting an emphasis on delivering training is undoubtedly more difficult during a pandemic, however, some organisations found innovative and unique ways to continue their employees learning and development when Covid-19 hit. In the following article, we hear from the winners of the ‘Personal Growth’ Special Award at Best Companies Live, where they shared the practices they put in place and how their learnings will shape the way that employees train, develop and grow in the future.
Wellbeing might well be the buzzword of the last 18 months, with the pandemic heightening awareness of the importance of both mental and physical health. In this article, we hear from the four winners of the ‘Wellbeing’ Special Award, as they discuss what they learnt about wellbeing and the approaches they put in place during Best Companies Live.
Through the difficulties of the pandemic, it has been truly encouraging to see many organisations playing a part to help those in need. But why does doing the right thing matter? In this article, we hear from four organisations who participated at Best Companies Live about the reasons why giving something back is so important to them.
Since March 2020, the world of work has, for many, become very different. But what has the time since taught us, and what does it mean for the future of the workplace? In this article, we hear from four organisations who participated at Best Companies Live, about their learnings and their strategies going forward.
In times of uncertainty, change, or crisis, employees look to the leaders of an organisation for clarity and direction. According to the winners of this year’s ‘Best Leader’ Special Award, there’s a few key areas of focus that helped them through difficult times, which they shared during a discussion at our recent Best Companies Live event.
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Broadcast live from Media City in Salford on Friday May 21st, the inaugural ‘Best Companies Live’ event revealed not only the very best organisations nationally, regionally and by sector in 2021, but also awarded the most deserving individuals with ‘Special Awards’ for their contributions to the workplace.
Download your free report - Covid-19 has seen organisations having to think on their feet, make decisions quickly and react swiftly to a landscape that is constantly changing and evolving. Take a look at survey analysis from over 50,000 employee responses that highlights workplace engagement factors impacted by Covid-19.
