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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.

• Virtual Sales Team, Finalist 2017, Best for Flexible Recruitment Award

  Virtual Sales Team’s business model is designed on flexibility and all external roles are advertised as flexible. The company has set a target that full-time staff will not exceed 20 per cent of the workforce, aiming to create a diverse team of employees who provide a better quality of service for clients. Overall, 83 per…

• OUTiCO, Finalist 2017, Best for Flexible Recruitment Award

  Pharmaceutical SME OUTiCO actively recruits on the basis of flexibility. As well as using the Happy to Talk Flexible Working strapline, it is including flexibility in the advert headline, attracting candidates who are looking for better work-life balance. Flexible contracts are offered as standard – 100 per cent of staff have flexibility. The company uses…

• Berwin Leighton Paisner, Finalist 2017, Best for Flexible Recruitment Award

  A new office was set up to operate in a more flexible way, challenging law firms’ traditional ways of working. Home-based team of real estate lawyers recruited as part of this drive. Flexi-time system trialled in the firm’s Manchester office. Together with formal flexible arrangements this means 96 per cent of the Manchester office have…

• 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.

• Dulas, Winner 2017, The Deloitte Best for all stages of Motherhood Award

  100 per cent retention rate for mothers five years after the birth of their first child All requests for flexibility approved Mothers make up two-thirds of the senior management team Engineering firm Dulas is bucking the trend in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, medicine and mathematics) businesses, with its extremely successful retention strategies for new mothers…

• Turn IT On, Winner 2017, The Direct Line Group Best for Embedded Flexibility Award

  Managers act as role models in their use of flexible working and shared parental leave Options to work flexibly are actively promoted Performance of flexible workers monitored to ensure their work is fairly recognised ICT support business Turn IT On actively recruits staff to work flexibly, innovating to support those who work in non-traditional ways.…

• 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.

• DLA Piper, Finalist 2015, The Santander Best New Flexible Working Initiative

  DLA Piper’s initiative has given a real boost to flexibility by rebranding and relaunching it as ‘agile working’. In particular, DLA Piper has focused on career progression,  often a challenge for flexible workers, through the use of job-sharing supported by clever use of technology. For the rebrand, the  firm developed two guides: one for employees…

• iCrossing, Winner 2015, The Citymothers Best for All Stages of Motherhood Award

  iCrossing’s approach to supporting its mothers is fresh and innovative. Over the past five years the company has actively set out to increase its female workforce, believing that a more diverse working demographic will benefit both its culture and its clients. iCrossing has a desire to attract and retain the best in a competitive industry.…

• iCrossing, Winner 2015, The Direct Line Group Best for Line Managers Award

  In a competitive sector, iCrossing has shown that the foundation to embedding flexible working is set by supportive managers who want to make it work and who understand the benefits that it can bring to them and their business, including high performance and happy individuals. Their philosophy is that good management is integral to good…

• iCrossing, Finalist 2015, The Cityfathers Best for all Stages of Fatherhood Award

  iCrossing has demonstrated its totally flexible approach to achieving balance between work and home life through the way it considers fathers. This approach is based on a well-considered and well-executed business case: the company is aware that, in the digital industry, demand is high for the most talented experts and tenure can be short. It…