Overall Top Employer Award
-
John Lewis Partnership
This award represented the
organisation deemed to have
outstanding policies on work life
balance, diversity and flexible
working. For this award, the judges
rated all the winners out of 10 on
the different criteria from the
other awards – diversity for all,
especially for working parents and
at all levels; flexible working;
career development; and work life
balance. John Lewis was the
organisation which stood out in
terms of the comprehensive and
embedded nature of what it offered
on work life balance.
Innovation in Flexible
Working Award -
Accenture
The judges felt Accenture was doing
something on every front and that
everything about its flexible work
culture was open and transparent.
For this company, flexible working
was the norm.
Employee Engagement Award
-
Prudential
The judges felt the winner had
enthusiastically embraced employee
engagement and made huge and
innovative progress.
Talent Attraction Award
-
Virtual Sales Team
The judges felt the winner
demonstrated clearly and openly in
job adverts that flexibility was
part of their business model and it
was clear their approach had boosted
retention.
Childcare Award
-
John Lewis Partnership
The judges felt the winner of this
award had a comprehensive and
broad-based range of policies and
practices which addressed a wide
range of childcare issues.
SME Award (1-25
employees) -
Hireserve
The judges praised the winner for
demonstrating clearly the business
case for using flexible working.
Flexible practices were clearly
communicated, including at interview
stage and part timers were
considered real employees with a
career ahead of them.
SME Award (26-250
employees) -
Duo
The judges praised the winner's
array of impressive policies aimed
at supporting working parents. They
recognised the skills parents
brought to the workplace, were
supportive if staff had sick
children and showed flexibility
across a broad variety of roles.
Working Mums Champion
Award -
Mia Drennan, Square Mile
Connections
The judges felt the winner showed
energy and commitment in driving
forward innovative policies and
clearly demonstrated that they were
having an impact outside their own
company in the promotion of flexible
working.
