Bobst UK and Ireland voted Great Place to Work

The survey asks employees to score their employer in 20 focus areas, including caring, communication, integrity, team, competence, support, collaboration, equity, and impartiality. Bobst UK and Ireland scored highest in caring and communication and was able to identify equity and impartiality as areas for improvement. Based on all responses to the survey, 82 percent of employees felt that Bobst UK and Ireland was a ‘Great Place to Work’.

‘Feedback from Great Place to Work was that this was a very positive first result. We clearly have a strong organization with engaged people,’ commented Wendy Knight, human resources director at Bobst UK and Ireland. ‘Considering we have endured one of the most challenging times that we have ever faced, due to the impact of Covid-19, we still received excellent feedback.

‘The effect of lockdowns and increased working from home has meant that people have generally been more stressed; they cannot relax at home and have not been able to enjoy holidays. All this adds pressure to the working environment, but despite this, we were still able to make the Great Place to Work list 2021. It is a great accolade and will support us in recruitment, employee retention and of course, promotion of Bobst as a company to do business with.’

Bobst UK & Ireland is the first business within the Bobst Group to be recognized by Great Place to Work.

‘It is very pleasing to see that we scored highly in communications and caring. Our duty of care has never been tested as it has been over the past 12 months, and we have implemented many different initiatives to find new ways to communicate and offer support to our team during the pandemic. For those areas where we did not score as highly, we will be exploring these further and developing action plans to improve for the future.  We now have a benchmark which we can use to compare ourselves against organizations of similar size as well as monitor our employee feedback year on year,’ concluded Knight.