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This award will recognise examples of a business/organisation that has implemented flexible working for all levels of staff with the use of methods such as hybrid working, working from home/remote locations, flexible working days/weeks/hours or any other methods that are not ‘business as usual’.

This award will recognise a company or organisation (including charity organisations) that has demonstrated outstanding commitment and leadership to harnessing the benefits of a diverse workforce internally and externally. The winner will also commit to driving diversity and inclusion, shared responsibility across all levels of the organisation and best practice, a joined up approach aimed at embedding diversity & inclusion across the organisation and evidence of inspirational and measurable outcomes.

This award will recognise and celebrate businesses and organisations that provide further opportunities within their company for school or further education leavers. Entrants should provide evidence of how the programme assists apprentices and/or graduates in career growth, development and leadership with the opportunity to gain further qualifications in their chosen field. Entrants should also showcase the support on offer to individuals in the programme i.e. with dedicated mentors, details of training and development opportunities and examples of the opportunity to rotate around several business departments if applicable.

This category aims to shine a light on a business with extensive training and skills development opportunities available for its employees. Entrants should provide evidence of the training and skills development opportunities on offer and show how it is innovative, how impactful it is for the employees and the business and if there are any experiential offerings such as training via VR headsets, online learning, off-site training etc.

This award celebrates excellence and achievements in internal communications. The organisation will have a long-term commitment to high standards in internal communications. Judges are looking for evidence of how you have adapted your communications across a remote workforce, detailing how you encourage and ensure there is two-way communication and how you ensure the information that is important to your workforce reaches them effectively.

Having a strong, effective employee culture is key to running a successful business. Entrants should provide evidence of how they have encouraged and implemented an inspiring workplace culture for staff and demonstrate how this compliments business practices, experiences and results.

This award will recognise examples of the businesses approach to the staff culture, family support and employee working practices and policies. What was the initiative behind creating such a culture and how does it benefit the staff and business? What makes your practices and procedures of having a focus on health and wellbeing, mental health, home and work life balance and family/caring responsibilities unique from other organisations?

This award will recognise examples of the businesses approach to the staff culture, family support and employee working practices and policies. What was the initiative behind creating such a culture and how does it benefit the staff and business? What makes your practices and procedures of having a focus on health and wellbeing, mental health, home and work life balance and family/caring responsibilities unique from other organisations? If the business have plans to scale up, how will this be manage with the expansion of employees?

This award will recognise examples of the businesses approach to the staff culture, family support and employee working practices and policies. What was the initiative behind creating such a culture and how does it benefit the staff and business? What makes your practices and procedures of having a focus on health and wellbeing, mental health, home and work life balance and family/caring responsibilities unique from other organisations? How is this managed with the scale of employee numbers?

The winners of the Scottish Top Employer of the Year will demonstrate commitments to their staff and a range of their policies and practices such as staff culture, flexible working, family/caring support, diversity and inclusion practices and more that have had a positive impact on the business and its employees.

This award recognises organisations demonstrating outstanding internal advancement and establishing internal support systems. Evidence should be submitted to show how your organisation utilises the skills and experiences of the current workforce, promoting internal movement between teams where skills are best placed to improve outputs while showcasing the strategies and systems in place to continually review employee development opportunities.