A North Wales expertise agency has launched a versatile working coverage, together with the precise for workers to decide on the place they work.
Bangor-based ETL manages information for world firms corresponding to Honda and Jaguar Land Rover. The corporate has launched a brand new coverage on working hours and site known as Flex.
In line with firm director Chris Griffin, making flexibility an official coverage helps increase worker wellbeing. “Our employees can construction their work round their particular person circumstances”, defined Chris, “serving to them to create a extra balanced life.”
The Flex coverage has been launched after a profitable six month trial. Below the brand new coverage, employees can select to work from the corporate’s Parc Menai workplace, or from their dwelling, and even a mixture of each.
As well as, employees also can select versatile begin and end occasions. They’re additionally capable of take a break from the working day to fulfil caring duties, corresponding to doing the varsity run.
Worker-owned since 2016, ETL makes its employees its precedence. “After finishing up analysis amongst our staff, we discovered that flexibility is the important thing to holding our staff pleased”, Chris mentioned. “Our employees need to have the ability to mould their working hours and site to swimsuit their very own existence. Working from dwelling through the pandemic confirmed that we are able to work as a powerful workforce from completely different places.”
The corporate is planning a collection of enjoyable actions to keep up shut ties between the groups. Earlier actions have included paddleboarding on the Menai Strait, summer season picnics and breaking out of an escape room.
Jane Steen is the staff’ consultant on the ETL board. She mentioned,
“ETL is a superb place to work, and being employee-owned it appears like employees wellbeing is a precedence for the corporate. Everybody’s handled equally, and all of us profit from the give attention to staff as an alternative of shareholders.
“Now that we’ve got versatile working circumstances, I can end early in summer season to go strolling, or work at home in winter to scale back my commuting time. Then again, a few of us recognize going into the workplace to benefit from the free central heating! It’s nice to have these choices and it additionally helps with our carbon footprint.”
