Man Group – Finalist 2021, Best for Fathers
Man Group, a global active investment management firm, introduced an Enhanced Global Parental Leave Policy in 2018. This offers 18 weeks of leave, on full pay, within a year of the date the child joins the family. This is for all parents, regardless of gender and whether a child has been born, adopted, or fostered.
Santander – Finalist 2021, Best Family Network
Santander’s Families & Carers Network is for parents, grandparents, partners, those looking to adopt or foster, people struggling with fertility, and colleagues with caring responsibilities.
Nationwide Building Society – Winner 2021, Best Family Network
Nationwide’s Working Families Network supports parents, grandparents, other family members and people wanting to start a family. The network provides resources like home schooling materials, access and influence over organisational policies supporting a work-life balance, and professional coaching.
Barclays PLC – Finalist 2021, Best Family Network
The Barclays Working Families Network helps staff members with the challenges of balancing family, life and work. It is one of the largest and oldest in the organisation, with 150 ambassadors who raise awareness of the network with other colleagues.
QBE European Operations – Finalist 2021, Best Covid-19 Response
QBE European Operations, one of the world's largest general insurance and reinsurancecompanies, placed employee wellbeing and safety at the very top of their priority list when the world went into lockdown. At the heart of their efforts was employee communications, dedicated to keeping staff connected and informed during the pandemic.
Barclays – Finalist 2019, Best Returner Programme
The Encore! Programme, which is promoted widely, features high levels of support for returners before, during and after the programme. This includes an employee network for returners to support each other and learn new skills.
MHA Larking Gowen – Winner 2019, Best Flexible Working Initiative
Encouraging flexible hours and remote working from home or client offices along with an office redesign to create quiet space, hot desks and collaborative space has increased chargeable time while reducing sickness and absenteeism, staff turnover and costly overtime.
QBE – Finalist 2019, Best for Mental Health & Wellbeing
An employee network addresses physical and mental health challenges at work and aims to give members of staff the confidence to speak up and ask for help if they need it.
Royal Bank of Scotland – Winner 2019, Best Family Network
A global Families and Carers Network with 1250 members - including 250 members of a new Fertility and Loss group – offers peer support, including attending meetings with employees and line managers to ensure discretionary policies are applied consistently.
Barclays – Winner 2019, Best for Mothers
Offering enhanced maternity pay available from ‘day one’, support for employees undergoing fertility treatment, mandatory training for managers, a Parenting Portal, coaching and flexible working mean 90 per cent of mothers return after having their baby.
Barclays – Finalist 2019, Best Family Network
The bank’s Working Families Network events are attended by thousands of employees and are available to watch online afterwards.
Deloitte – Finalist 2019, Best for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Well established senior-level ‘mental health champions’ and stories from senior leaders who have experienced mental health issues are helping normalise the previously taboo issue.
