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  • Accenture, Finalist 2011, The National Grid Best for Flexible Working Award

    Accenture have invested heavily in leading edge technology to enable colleagues to connect up globally, reducing the need for extensive travel and allowing flexibility for employees collaborating across time zones. They have also taken a lifecycle approach to flexibility, recognising that employees will have changing flexibility needs throughout their careers. Flexibility is available to all…

  • Centrica, Winner 2011, The Best for Fathers Award

    Policies afford fathers flexibility and time off to spend with their children. Paternity pay is enhanced, and fathers are allowed to phase back from paternity leave (OPL and APL), they are also able to split paternity leave. There is awareness that life events, like having a new baby, may temporarily affect performance and work can…

  • Centrica, Finalist 2011, The Legal & General Best for Carers Award

    A highly developed and long established carer’s policy extends across the organisation to all people. This is backed up with a thriving carer’s network which has run since 2004. Dependents are widely defined, maximising the likelihood of being able to take the carer’s leave. Additional leave is at the discretion of the line manager, and…

  • Jaguar Land Rover, Finalist 2011, Best for Career Progression Award

    One of the barriers identified by women is the ability to balance home and work life. Since 2009 a total of 124 women have received training around career development, planning, coaching, leadership etc. A number of those attending have flexible working arrangements. The feedback from participants, has said that it has allowed them to reflect…

  • Berwin Leighton Paisner, Finalist 2017, Best Large Private Sector Employer Award

    Recruitment advertising promotes the firm’s increasing levels of flexibility. Senior management encourage informal flexible working and 25 per cent of the workforce have formal flexibility agreements. Training offered for managing remote workers, networks launched to support parents, family day introduced and series of talks provided on a range of family issues. Shared parental leave enhanced…

  • AB World Foods, Finalist 2017, Best Large Private Sector Employer

    Enhanced and competitive family-related benefits. ‘Summer Hours’ scheme enables employees to finish early on a Friday – 62 per cent take up. New flexible working trial: Employees in the commercial departments now have the flexibility to be able to work from home on a Monday and Friday and benefit from core office hours of 10am-4pm…

  • PageGroup, Finalist 2017, The Deloitte Best for all stages of Motherhood Award

    Pre/post Maternity coaching, mentoring for new mothers and parenting seminars across a range of topics, chosen by our parents Launched Dynamic Working programme to give all employees flexibility and choice. Creation of a portal for work and family with access to free emergency back-up childcare, webinars, information and expert advice. Series of networking groups and…

  • JP Morgan, Finalist 2017, The Deloitte Best for all stages of Motherhood Award

    Senior steering committee set up to review the maternity support offered and how it can be strengthened. Maternity buddy programme expanded, sitting alongside coaching and line manager training. Quarterly returner lunches for those back from leave, plus re-entry programme for women out of the workforce for two or more years – 100 per cent of…

  • Barclays, Finalist 2017, The Deloitte Best for all stages of Motherhood Award

    To increase retention, Barclays introduced a programme of support from pre-post maternity, including workshops, networking, briefing packs for employees and managers, KIT sessions. A mentoring tool was developed as a platform for career development discussions and dedicated portal Woman@Barclays created to bring together support resources. Dynamic (flexible) working campaign to reduce discrimination by promoting flexibility…

  • Barclays, Finalist 2017, The Cityparents Best for all stages of Fatherhood Award

    So far 162 parents have taken shared parental leave at Barclays – 95 per cent of them fathers. There are also high levels of paid paternity leave take-up. Dedicated coaching sessions and webinars are run to support fathers and of 3,085 members of the bank’s family network, 42 per cent are men. Fathers are supported…

  • EY, new parent mentoring scheme, Finalist 2017, The Allen & Overy Innovation Award

    EY – New parent mentoring scheme Maternity buddy scheme replaced with transition mentoring scheme open to all parents, complementing existing formal career and family mentoring/coaching. New scheme based on requests from members of EY’s Family Network for targeted support during the transition to parenthood, ideally from colleagues and peers who understand the working environment. Scheme…