Our Corporate Responsibility

Our Workplace

To ensure that we recruit and keep the best people we continue to make Elementus a great place to work. In a recent employee satisfaction survey, 65% of our employees strongly agreed and a further 32% agreed that our company is a good employer. Satisfied colleagues are less likely to leave and therefore this keeps the cost of recruitment low.

“I think the thing I like most about Elementus is the people, particularly my colleagues, it is really nice to work in a team where everyone helps each other out” – Karen Staines, Customer Report Coordinator.

In 2009 our external training costs equated to over £400 per employee. To date we have not evaluated our internal training or gained Investors in People, however we aim improve evaluation in 2010 to demonstrate to our stakeholders the value of training. We are continuing to improve flexibility to ensure that we retain our staff; by offering ways of ensuring we can offer a better balance between work and family life.

Part-time working has been very successful for staff that have requested this, to enable them to combine work with young families or semi-retirement. We had no part-time workers in 2000 and now 10% of our current workforce work part-time.

Our business continuity plan was tested in November 2009. The ability of Elementus to survive an unexpected event is important for the livelihood of more than 70 employees and supports our suppliers.

Health and safety obviously continues to be important to us. In 2009 we again had a low accident rate and good welfare standards. This has resulted in a sickness rate of just 1.6 working days per employee in 2009.

We continue to offer profit share bonus, childcare vouchers, private healthcare, company pension scheme, critical illness cover and a bonus scheme for introducing friends or family to the company resulting in successful recruitment.

In 2009 we have made improvements to our premises which included fitting a new kitchen. This helps improve our working conditions.

Finally, employees are invited to make suggestions for improvements.

Challenges for 2010:

• Continue to improve our premises.

 

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