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Local businesses are competing for the title of 'Jersey's Best Workplace' as part of a new initiative launched by All Island Media which will help them unlock insights about their teams.
In partnership with CompassJersey, the employee engagement award seeks to identify the gold-standard of employee satisfaction in the island.
To identify a winner, businesses will be benchmarked against each other and receive detailed analysis.
Before the analysis gets underway, Express spoke to several businesses who have decided to take part in the process.
Yesterday, we spoke to Randalls MD Gavin Reid. Today, Valla Limited Director Grainne McGinley explains what the trust company hopes to learn from the awards and what a good workplace culture means to them...
At Valla it has always been one of our core motivations to oversee the career development of our staff so that they grow with the company.
We wanted to test if the people that make our company tick believed in that initiative, which we think entering Jersey’s Best Workplace would support.
Nurturing, hardworking and fun.
There is so much more to wanting to come to work in the morning than just remuneration, and it is essential to provide beyond the tick box benefits and truly foster a partnership with our staff and extending from this belief is to foster a great workplace.
As a smaller organisation, we face the same challenges as the larger firms, which we meet collaboratively, but what sets us apart is really knowing our staff beyond their name and address and ensuring we provide support to them when they need it most by providing additional emotional support and additional time off to deal with health and family matters, which should always take priority.
We strive to provide an environment where a work-life balance really is achieved, which was our approach even before covid. We don’t create a positive and nurturing workplace as a reaction to market trends – we have always done it this way.
We are only as good as the people we employ, they are our biggest asset, so it’s simply crucial to protect and grow that asset, which is why we have an extremely low staff turnover, with the nucleus of our team having been with the company on average of 10 years-plus, and our longest serving employee with us for over 28 years.
To see if we are getting it right, and if not, where we can improve.
It will give us an opportunity to see if our team agree that we are providing a positive workplace and if we are, to then build on that success and continue building on our culture of a supportive, nurturing and fun working environment.
Top-performing companies will be highlighted in a special Jersey’s Best Workplace publication distributed in print and online through the Jersey Evening Post and Bailiwick Express. Winners will be honoured at a special awards ceremony in March 2025.
In addition to the survey results, compensation and potential to be crowned 'Jersey’s Best Workplace', entrants will receive an All Island Media advertising credit and an annual subscription to the digital edition of the Jersey Evening Post.
For more information, and to register, click HERE.
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