• Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure – Winner 2019, Best for Embedded Flexibility

  Incorporating greater flexibility to job roles and regularly communicating the benefits of flexible working to staff means more than 60 per cent of employees now work flexibly, and job applications have increased by 38 per cent. 

• Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure – Winner 2019, Best Returner Programme

  A successful returnship programme aimed at all genders, ages, disciplines and levels of experience is discovering and developing skilled employees for roles that usually suffer from a shortage of good candidates.

• Arnold Clark – Finalist 2019, Best Innovation

  The automotive company offers bespoke flexible working arrangements including flexitime, 4-on, 4-off shift patterns, compressed hours, day shift, twilight shift, night shift, home working, and an industry-leading 5-day sales week for product consultants.  

• Arnold Clark – Winner 2019, Best for Flexible Recruitment

  Switching to a five-day working week rather than the automotive standard of six, and using social media to showcase flexible work patterns of a diverse range of employees has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of women recruited.

• Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield – Winner 2019, Best for Fathers

  Fathers benefit from four weeks’ fully paid paternity leave, which they can use flexibly and is available from day one of employment. Enhanced shared parental pay of three months at full pay and three months at half pay was taken up by 31% of eligible fathers in 2018 and flexible working requests from men are routinely approved.

• Sky – Finalist 2019, Best Family Network

  More than 4,000 parents and carers share experiences and are successfully changing company culture so employees feel at ease talking about their family responsibilities and flexible working. 

• Deloitte – Commended 2019, Best for Embedded Flexibility

  A top-down culture supports flexible working, which is common among employees.

• Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield – Finalist 2019, Best for Mental Health & Wellbeing

  Mental health training for managers and the creation of mental health champions supports mental wellbeing. Champions deliberately include employees who work on the company’s construction sites.

• 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.

• 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.

• Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield – Winner 2019, Best for Line Managers

  URW provides a comprehensive range of measures to ensure line managers are supported and supportive. This includes one-to-one guidance from HR, checklists, and training in supporting employees transitioning into caring, and managing flexible workers.

• 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.