The Herald Top Employer Awards

Flexibility Works is a social business, co-founded by two of Scotland’s leading experts in Flexible Working – Lisa Gallagher and Nikki Slowey.

Between us, we have vast experience of working directly with employers in Scotland around flexible working. We also have experience of working in senior roles within different sectors and setting up and running organisations.

Flexibility Works is our way of harnessing our energy, knowledge and passion to support more employers than ever before to move their dial on flexible working. Our approach is human, professional and practical.

We have worked with large and small organisations across different sectors to create working culture change.

As a social organisation, part of our mission is to add value for employers free of charge, supporting lower income workers to balance their work and home life.

Working flexibly is not only good for employers and people, it has the power to address deep-rooted, societal and economic issues like poverty, inequality, and the health and wellbeing of our nation.

As two mums of six boys, it is our personal and professional mission to change working culture in Scotland, creating a more fair and flexible way that will benefit workers not only today but our children’s generation and generations to come.

https://www.flexibilityworks.org/

Skills Development Scotland (SDS) is Scotland’s national skills agency.

Our purpose is to drive productivity and inclusive growth through investment in skills, enabling businesses and people to achieve their full potential.

Central to our focus is to contribute to the economic and social recovery, and the creation of a more prosperous, greener and fairer economy aligned with Scottish Government ambitions as detailed in the National Strategy for Economic Transformation.

Our services are designed to reflect best practice nationally and internationally and, through extensive engagement with partners at national, regional and local level, we flex and shape our delivery to meet local needs and priorities.

At SDS we are committed to embedding equality, diversity, and inclusion throughout all we do. Through a wide range of policies, initiatives, and continuous improvement activities, we’re working to embed equality and diversity throughout our organisation and meet our responsibilities as a public sector body. Before the pandemic hit, inequality existed across education and employment in Scotland, and the crisis has exacerbated many pre-existing inequalities. Therefore, during the pandemic, we took additional action to ensure our services continued to be accessible to all, whoever they are, wherever they live, whatever their needs.

Our work includes providing careers advice in schools and our high street centres, as well as online through website My World of Work; helping employers develop the skills of their workforce.

Our message to employers is that equality is good for business. A diverse workforce is a more creative one. Fostering an inclusive working environment helps bridge skills gaps and harnesses different experiences, backgrounds and approaches. Our employer web service Our Skillsforce reinforces these positive messages to employers.

Colleagues from across SDS help spread our message by promoting information on equality issues, developments and best practice.

https://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/

The CIPD has around 11,000 members in Scotland, working in organisations in the public, private and third sectors, and across businesses of all sizes.  

We work with the Scottish Government, its agencies and a range of academic, business and voluntary partners on a broad range of public policy issues, with a particular focus on fair work, skills and productivity. We are key partners on a range of working groups and via our Policy Forum, we serve as a conduit to our network of members who both inform and shape debate, government policy and legislation for the benefit of employees and employers.  

Our Scotland-wide networks offer a forum for HR specialists to learn, debate and connect with other like-minded professionals working in areas including reward, employee relations and as independent consultants. We are delighted to add our new Senior People Professionals Network to our offering from this autumn, which will provide a new forum for senior HR practitioners to connect. 

Keep up to date with our work on our social channels and sign up for our monthly newsletter which is published on the first Tuesday of every month.  

Find out more at www.cipd.co.uk/learn/nations-regions/cipd-scotland  

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Founded in 2001, Newton Property Management is one of Scotland’s leading property management companies. The business is renowned for its people first approach, providing exceptional proactive and responsive service to its customers and creating an energising, progressive and supportive culture for its employees.  The business has always had the goal to shake up the property management sector and has built its reputation on its modern approach to factoring that puts people first and profit second. With offices across Scotland, the business is focused on further growth and continues to invest heavily in its people and customers to support this ambition.

https://newtonproperty.co.uk/

The Glenmorangie Company is owned by Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton (LVMH). It is home to Glenmorangie Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky and Ardbeg Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky, two of the world’s most respected whisky brands. 

The company has five sites across Scotland –including its global headquarters in Edinburgh, Distilleries on Islay and the Scottish Highlands, alongside its bottling plant in central Scotland – which collectively bring its two world-renowned single malt whiskies to a global market.

The business employs more than 250 people across its various locations and is proud to have been awarded the Platinum Award by Investors in People. The Glenmorangie Company is a multi-award winning business with its most recent plaudits including the Whisky Magazine Icons of Whisky Awards 2022 Global Distillery Manager of the year for Glenmorangie Distillery Manager Ed Thom; and the 2022 International Whisky Competition (IWC) Distillery of the Year for the fourth time in five years for Ardbeg Distillery. 

It’s a business founded on patience and painstaking attention to detail. Tradition is its lifeblood, yet innovation is key to its brands. While it will never hurry its whiskies, The Glenmorangie Company is often first to try new ideas in the development, production, and marketing of its brands. 

On its sustainable journey The Glenmorangie Company has committed to a net zero carbon footprint by 2040 and to be in business for the next 200 years. 

About Arnold Clark

Founded in 1954, the fledgling business took off from a single-car showroom on Glasgow’s Park Road, given flight by its founder’s simple philosophy: to offer genuine value for money and customer service of the highest level. Fast forward 68 years, and the company continues to flourish; with 200 branches across the country, and selling over 300,000 cars a year. But while Arnold Clark is a name that’s synonymous with vehicle sales, there’s much more to the business than you see on the showroom floor. There’s also a vehicle rental and fleet management divisions. The Group also offers everything that a customer might need for the onward journey, with parts and servicing departments, an accident repairs division, and insurance services.

www.arnoldclark.com

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