Independent Living Fund Scotland – Winner 2020, Best Small Employer
Offering ‘life-friendly’ flexibility to all employees means that ILF Scotland has happy employees and very low sickness absence. This is despite the organisation—which provides financial awards to more than 4,000 disabled people in Scotland and Northern Ireland—actively recruiting people with long-term health conditions and impairments.
Formedix – Winner 2020 – Scottish Top Employers Award (Small Employer)
Formedix is a Glasgow based software developer with a platform to help pharmaceuticals companies manage clinical trials more quickly and efficiently.
Slalom – Finalist 2019, Best Small Employer
A small professional services firm with a general manager who talks about the importance of family and is seen to leave early for family occasions.
Response IT – Winner 2019, Best Small Employer
Open to flexibility from day one and happy to discuss changes to working patterns at any time, the company finds solutions to keep talent while still meeting customer service level agreements. Employee turnover is very low and the business continues to grow.
9-2-3 Jobs – Finalist 2019, Best Small Employer
At this recruitment firm, flexible hours and remote working are offered at the point of hire and flexibility is the norm for all staff.
LUC – Finalist 2018, Best Small Employer Award
An agile working policy includes part-time working, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, remote working and the option to buy extra holiday or request periods of unpaid leave.
Independent Living Fund Scotland – Joint Winner 2018, Best Small Employer Award
Life friendly working is the mantra for the Independent Living Fund Scotland. Generous maternity and paternity packages, flexible working for all and ‘nothing off the table’ for discussion about work life balance make the public body a truly family friendly workplace.
Pursuit Marketing – Joint Winner 2018, Best Small Employer Award
Pursuit Marketing offers a four-day week as standard, term-time only roles and a scheme to automatically approve small changes to employee schedules. It’s a hit with staff and delivers robust business benefits too.
Virtual Sales Team, Commended 2017, The Best Small Employer Award
Virtual Sales Team was formed ten years ago as a family friendly organisation with flexibility at its core. The judges were impressed with its excellent levels of staff retention, with employees enabled to start late or finish early for school run reasons, flex their shift patterns, work part-time and reduce or increase hours on a weekly basis.
Brand Learning, Winner 2017, Best Small Employer
The judges were impressed with Brand Learning’s thoughtful approach to enabling staff to perform. Its family friendly culture recognises the need to balance work and home life demands.
Quorum Network Resources – Winner 2016 Scottish Top Employers (small employer)
IT specialist Quorum Network Resources is a dynamic small business whose 53 employees enjoy a friendly, open environment, encouraging a sense of team spirit across all sites.
