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Flexible and family friendly working makes good business sense – creating a workforce that is happier, more engaged and committed. Our yearly subscription package has been specifically designed to help SMEs support parent and carer employees so you can boost staff retention, productivity, and employee wellbeing. 

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Alternatively, our Core Membership gives you access to our benchmark and gives you the support of a Relationship Manager, who has the knowledge and expertise to provide tailored advice to ensure you’re successfully embedding working practices and policies.

SME support package subscription extras

There are always going to be times when you need a little bit more support. Our range of one-off services are available when you need to review your policies or find a specific solution to a flexible working or family friendly working query with one of our expert Relationship Managers. With our SME subscription you can also enjoy one of our popular lunch and learn sessions, delivered virtually to your team at a discounted price.  

*Please note our advice hour will always be from a best practice perspective and we cannot give any advice or support from a legal or legislative stand point.

• Millwood Servicing – Finalist 2018, My Family Care Best for Mothers Award

  Fire safety and electrical engineering firm, Millwood Servicing, has an impressive 100 per cent return rate for mothers – even five years after their children was born.  Family flexible working is promoted throughout the organisation along with open and honest conversations about anything employees feel can help balance work and family life.  The firm’s holiday…

• 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. 

• KnownFour – Commended 2018, Best for Flexible Recruitment Award

  All jobs at recruitment firm, KnownFour, are advertised as flexible.  All staff choose where they work and how they structure their hours. Even those who work full-time work flexibly around school-runs or other commitments. All staff currently choose to work from home.  The company’s hiring framework includes a stage for prospective employees to explore how…

• 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. 

• SST Sensing – Winner 2018 Scottish Top Employers (SME)

  SST Sensing were the winners of the 2018 Top Scottish Employers for Working Families, medium category.

• Senshi Digital – Winner 2018 Scottish Top Employers (SME)

  Senshi Digital was the 2018 Winner of the Top Scottish Employers for Working Families Awards - SME employer (small) category and Innovation category.

• Pursuit Marketing – Winner 2018 Scottish Top Employers (SME)

  Pursuit Marketing was the 2018 Winner of Top Scottish Employers for Working Families Awards - SME employer (medium) category.

• Henmans LLP, Finalist 2012, Best for Career Progression for Flexible Workers Award

  Henmans LLP is a law firm based in Oxford, employing 123 people. The firm has a commitment to work-life balance and believes that flexible working is no impediment to career development and progression. Performance and motivation are key, and the firm looks to reward these characteristics in its employees regardless of their working pattern. The…

• Loop Customer Management, Commended 2012, Best for Mothers Award

  Loop Customer Management provides billing & collection and customer services for Yorkshire Water. They employ 578 people, 70 per cent of whom are women. Because they have a large number of female workers, it is vital that they are able to get maternity policies right to both ensure that they manage the maternity process well,…

• Henmans LLP, Finalist 2012, The Lexington Gray Best for Flexible Working Award

  Henmans LLP is a law firm based in Oxford, employing 123 people. The initial impetus for flexible working began before 2000, when two partners reduced their hours to better fit in with family life. This started in train a process which led the firm to challenge the belief that lawyers needed to spend 10 hours…

• Ashurst LLP, Commended 2011, The Deutsche Bank Best for Innovation & Engagement Award

  Ashurst has taken a holistic approach to work/life fit. In addition to focussing on individual requirements as they arise, the firm decided to review the way the organisation works as a whole. The senior partner leads a committee which has reviewed work practices and the work/life fit of employees, taking on board the responses of…