We strive to make sure everyone gets the most out of their day-to-day work.

Peer review is standard across all our projects, alongside regular pairing and informal team-wide knowledge-sharing whiteboard sessions. Working in multi-disciplinary teams provides great opportunities to learn skills from experts in difference areas of specialism. Our “tech officer” keeps everyone engaged with regular events to illuminate and inspire:

• Lunch-and-learn events to share experiences across project teams or introduce new technologies
• Lightning talks introduce wild and wonderful new ideas
• Hackathons, speed coding, and similar events allow everyone to experiment, learn, and have fun!

We believe in helping employees look after their physical and mental health

Financial assurance when you’re unwell. We work hard to ensure there’s cover in place for key roles, so employees can focus on getting better, without worrying that work isn’t getting done.  We offer Smart Health which provides unlimited online, telephone, or video GP appointments. These are available 24 hours a day. There’s also access to mental health support, health checks tailored fitness programmes, and personalised nutrition consultations. Each year we fund a fee eye test.

Within Softwire, we have a team of trained mental health first-aiders, Our LifeWorks Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers mental, physical, social, and financial wellbeing support, this includes telephone counselling sessions access to a library of self-assessments and resources to help build resilience.

Headspace is a mental health support app that aims to improve the health and happiness of the world through meditation and mindfulness. We offer access to its extensive library of guided meditations, mindfulness exercises, animations, articles and videos. Our London office has a calm room, where you can take time out to relax.

It’s also got a library of resources on mental wellbeing, and our self-care lucky dip who you can talk to at any time, and everyone is welcome to join our weekly online yoga sessions.

We provide a wide range of events and entertainment to suit all interests. A huge part of our culture is a belief in having fun! Our events consist of big-ticket company events and a programme of smaller events. There are typically multiple events per week.

There’s something for everyone. Our elected morale officers oversee the programme, and one of their responsibilities is to ensure there’s genuinely something for everyone, both in terms of the types of activity and when they take place. Everyone is encouraged to suggest events to the morale officers – or better still, organise events themselves, with the officers’ support.

Examples of moral events include:

• Cinema & theatre trips
• TV & film viewings
• Ice skating
• Theme Park trips
• Go-karting
• T20 cricket
• Trampolining
• Board games
• Beer pong
• Sword fighting
• Poker
• Quizzes
• Pub trips

We hold a company holiday each year, held over a long weekend. As well as being a great way to discuss strategy and plan for the year ahead, it’s a wonderful opportunity to relax with colleagues and explore a new place. You can bring a guest along, and your children are welcome too. You also get free time to explore the destination on your own, if you’d like to.

We’ve historically travelled abroad each year. We offset our emissions but are currently looking at ways to further reduce the environmental impact, whilst maintaining the quality and fun.