Our culture has always had a strong people-first approach. We know that a happy team keeps our clients happy, and that makes our business work.

In mid-2019, in a BC (Before Covid), world we identified supporting our team with their mental health as a priority. Like in most businesses, mental wellbeing was an issue that had negatively affected members of our team. We helped our team through these challenges, but knew mental health was a growing issue.

To live our values and ‘do the right thing’ we needed to address mental wellbeing and better support our team. Just as we started planning, 2020 arrived and made supporting our team’s wellbeing an even higher priority, so we embraced the challenge.

Since then we have come a huge way on our journey, including:

• Opening up the dialogue around mental health
• Starting a Wellbeing working group with wellbeing champions from across the business
• Regularly, and confidentially, surveying our teams wellbeing and psychological safety
• Developing training programmes to increase awareness and compassion of specific health conditions
• Increasing the support available to our team during challenging times
• Embedding mental health into our operational processes
• And so much more!

After all that work, we are now thrilled to announce that we have again been ranked as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Wellbeing by Great Place to Work®.

How are the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Wellbeing ranked?

The Great Place to Work® rankings recognize organizations that successfully support employee wellbeing in the workplace. Culture experts create the ranking by analysing thousands of employee surveys, assessing the holistic experiences of wellbeing at work and asking employees to comment on their company’s support of their work-life balance, fulfilment, job satisfaction, psychological safety, and financial security. Evaluations also include an assessment of how well each organisation was able to deliver consistency of their employee experience across all departments and seniority levels.

We have put in a lot of work to get here, and we will continue to do so, to make our agency a great place to work for all. But we believe there’s no point keeping all that experience to ourselves. Last year, our CEO Sally Pritchett proudly shared some of our secrets to success on being ranked in the UK’s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing list, in the hope that every workplace can become a supportive environment to work in. Check out Sally’s article here to see if it can help you to better support your employee wellbeing.

We’re proud of our work to make Something Big a great workplace. If you too are on a journey of fostering a workplace culture that values wellbeing, mental health and physical health, then we’d love to hear from you.