May 10th 2024, London UK: Universal Partners are proud to announce that we have been named in The Sunday Times Best Places To Work 2024..
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> 500 companies were selected according to culture, staff perks and progression.
Universal Partners, one of the UK’s fastest growing UK payment companies, was selected by The Sunday Times as one of the The Best Places To Work in 2024, in partnership with WorkL.
Representing another huge achievement for the business, the prestigious award highlights the huge investment into workplace culture since the pandemic. With staff benefits such as Private Healthcare, increased pensions and incredible training opportunities, staff have indicated that they are amongst the happiest in the UK.
Oliver Carson, CEO of Universal Partners, said “Since starting Universal Partners back in 2017, we have always prioritized building an amazing culture that breeds hard work, learning, teamwork and most importantly an excellent service for our clients. Throughout the last 3 or 4 years of rapid growth, our leadership team have worked tremendously hard to ensure the working environment and company culture is maintained and improved. This has been fundamental in our success and absolutely pivotal in being recognized in awards such as The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. The result is an incredible working environment which is positive, collaborative and ultimately very successful and I am very proud of everyone at Universal Partners who make us one of the top workplaces in the UK today.”
How the Survey Works
The Sunday Times partnered with employee-experience platform WorkL to deliver fresh insights into what makes a Best Place to Work. The Sunday Times Best Places to Work awards survey uses 26 questions from WorkL’s employee engagement survey, developed by behavioural scientists, data analysts, psychologists, business leaders, academics and other independent parties to most accurately monitor employee engagement, wellbeing and discretionary effort in the workplace. To achieve a high overall engagement score, an organisation must score well across WorkL’s six-step framework:
1. Reward and Recognition
2. Instilling Pride
3. Information Sharing
4. Empowerment
5. Wellbeing
6. Job Satisfaction
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Chris Longcroft, EVP Publisher, The Times and The Sunday Times, said: “All organisations are only as good as the people they employ and retain. The Sunday Times Best Places to Work awards recognise companies that are innovating to create an engaged and fulfilling working environment for all and in so doing they are creating the best possible platform for business success. To be named on The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list is a true recognition of excellence and I congratulate those organisations who made the grade this year.”
Lord Mark Price, Founder of WorkL, said: “I’m absolutely delighted for this year’s winners of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work, powered by WorkL. Many Congratulations to you all. We’ve been absolutely blown away by just how many brilliant companies entered the awards in the hopes of being recognised, so it’s a real achievement to have made the list. WorkL are proud to power these awards and support organisations in retaining and recruiting the very best employees.”
Zoe Thomas, editor of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work, said: “It is my pleasure to introduce the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. These include a huge range of businesses and not-for-profits, from innovative start-ups with a handful of employees to big multinational corporations staffed by thousands. The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024 span all industry sectors and are located throughout the UK. Uniting them is the commitment to make their organisation a better place to work for everyone, and there is no limit to the creative lengths they go to to engage employees. Why have a job just anywhere when you could be carving out a career at a Sunday Times Best Place to Work?”
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