_space group celebrate their success. National architectural firm _space group has shown that it is ‘outstanding’ at motivating its people after being accredited as one of the top companies in the UK by the company behind the Sunday Times Best projects.
The company, which employs 140 people across its network of offices in Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle, has become one of just 140 companies in the whole of the UK to be recognised in the 2010 Best Companies Accreditation survey.
_space, which operates across six sectors providing a full range of property related services, has been awarded two stars for displaying ‘outstanding’ levels of staff engagement. _space group is hopeful that based on its Best Companies ranking in 2010, that it may also be awarded a place in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For list this year, with the results announced towards the end of February.
Best Companies Founder and CEO Jonathan Austin said: “We would like to congratulate _space group on their outstanding achievement. An engaged workforce is essential as organisations move out of the recession and into a more stable economic situation. “No doubt many organisations have tackled redundancies and rapid change this year but organisations like _space group that have kept on engaging their staff and making sure they are involved in the business will be in a good position for the future and should be congratulated for their efforts.”
A record 1,086 organisations from the private and public sectors applied for Best Companies Accreditation this year, showing how high a priority staff engagement is. As the name behind The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For lists, Best Companies conducts the largest employee engagement survey in the world having received nearly one million survey responses from more 3,000 different organisations.
_space group chief executive said: “With so many other things going on in the economy it would be easy to take our eye off investing in our talent. However, we are working as hard as ever at sustaining our company culture where our people feel valued. This goes from really simple things like referring to everyone as _space people, rather than staff, all the way through to encouraging people to take part in initiatives such as lunchtime yoga sessions and playing on the company’s pool tables.
“Talent engagement is not a project, it is something we work on all year, every year and we are delighted to have had that recognised by Best Companies.”
Best Companies established the accreditation award scheme to acknowledge excellence in the workplace. Based on staff feedback, it looks at employee engagement as an integral part of a company’s success and growth, and sets a benchmark for other employers. The accreditation scheme follows a Michelin star style system with companies awarded one star for first class, two stars for outstanding and three stars for extraordinary performance.
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