Leyton UK celebrated as HR Team of the Year finalist

Leyton UK’s drive to improve the employee experience has been recognised at the Personnel Today Awards, where we were shortlisted as a finalist for “HR Team of the Year”.

The awards celebrate the best in HR, with “HR Team of the Year” rewarding the successful conception, implementation and measurement of employee-focused strategies. It was an obvious choice for an award for us to enter. Especially after a successful year of delivering initiatives that helped develop a high-performance culture that prioritised our people.

Highlights from the year, that were recognised by our shortlisting, included:

Creating a new employee-led diversity council
Working with the UN on their Target Gender Equality program
Being a signatory of the UN’s Women’s Empower Principles (WEPs)
Introducing a new menopause policy
Enhancing our flexible working policy to include remote working
Launching a competitive family-friendly policy
Providing a diverse new range of training and professional development opportunities
Ongoing coaching and mentoring programmes
Introducing manager awards and quarterly peer-to-peer award nominations
Launching a monthly Life at Leyton podcast
Providing financial wellbeing webinars
Enhancing our employee assistance programme
Delivering in-house training for managers on mental health skills
Being recognised as an LPI exceptional learning organisation
Launching an updated employee referral scheme

The results speak for themselves with:

Employee turnover has halved
Employee engagement at 98%
Employee referrals up from 1% to 22%
Recruitment costs down by 80%

“It’s been a very busy year for our HR team,” said Gillian Cole, Head of Human Resources at Leyton UK. It’s wonderful to see so many new and improved initiatives that meaningfully champion our values.”

“We wanted to prioritise our people, and the work that has been delivered strongly reflects this – not only because of the extra support and benefits we’re offering, but also because of how we consulted with our employees at every step. They’re at the heart of everything we do.”

“It’s fantastic to see the team’s efforts recognised by Personnel Today. It’s especially rewarding for the judges to name Leyton UK as a 2024 finalist, as we know there’d been a record number of entries this year.”

“Congratulations to all the other finalists and winners,” she added.

Find out more about how Leyton UK empowers our employees’ careers.

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