Giving something back
Our employees have given us something very valuable this
year: strong evidence that we are doing many things well.
According to their submissions to the Sunday Times `100 Best
Companies to work for' awards, they rated `giving something
back', `leadership' and `operating on sound moral principles'
as our greatest strengths.
Being a `Best Company' means you go beyond the bottom
line. It's about excelling in every area throughout the workplace
and showing exceptional commitment to your most important
assets your people.
As a result of our employees' views we received, for the first
time, two-star `outstanding' accreditation. The best bit for us?
The fact that our people said hard work at Grass Roots is
genuinely enjoyable!
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our workplace
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Providing meaningful and innovative benefits: our
comprehensive 4You benefits and rewards package
includes an excellent pension scheme, generous holiday
allowance, health insurance, flexible working, occupational
health, route4work and life insurance as standard. We
also offer a pick-and-mix menu of optional benefits, most
of which are tax-efficient. These include mobile phones,
medical insurance, dental cover, health assessments,
discount shopping and Care-4.
Care-4 is a great example of the unique benefits we
develop for our clients - and test in-house first. The UK's
first electronic childcare payment scheme, Care-4 was
initially trialled by our employees and found to be such a
hassle-free way of paying for and saving on childcare costs
that they are still using the service today.
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Recognising exceptional efforts and ideas: we operate
schemes for employees who want to reward colleagues for
going the extra mile and for the company to publicly thank
long servers for their loyalty and creative thinkers for their
bright business ideas.
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Supporting each individual's work/life balance: we
provide flexible work options because we know that
traditional office hours don't work for everyone. We actively
encourage options like flexible and condensed working
hours and provide mobile devices and laptops to enable
home working.
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Realising the potential of every employee: we help
people grow and develop their careers with us and are
very keen to `grow our own' business leaders by
providing twice yearly performance and development
reviews, career development support, training programmes
and opportunities to move around the business.
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Encouraging and enabling healthier, happier lives:
we believe it's our business to make work a place that
has a positive effect on our employees. We have
enshrined our values and commitment in our first
Corporate Responsibility Code of Conduct, which sets out
the high standards we expect in terms of fairness, honesty
and integrity. We provide yearly eye tests for all staff. Our
benefits programme also plays its part by supporting
healthy activities like cycling.
Here are just some of the ways we make a positive
difference to our employees' lives.
Nearly
33% OF EMPLOYEES
work flexible hours.
33%
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