Kate Williams

Only those businesses who achieve the highest scores after evaluation receive Best Workplaces status and Gleeds has been included on the list in this category. Gleeds scored highly on themes including commitment to diversity and inclusion, approachability of management team and creating a safe and caring environment for employees. Employee feedback also highlighted the company’s positive environment, strong camaraderie, autonomy, training and development opportunities and flexibility.

The Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services list is created using the anonymous feedback from employees working in the industry about their workplace experience. These firms cover a diverse range of knowledge intensive roles, from legal services to management consultancy, engineering, marketing and advertising, telecoms, real estate, recruitment, and travel management to name a few.

Great Place To Work UK administered their research-backed Trust Index employee survey and analysed the responses of UK-based consulting and professional services employees to determine the Best Workplaces list. The surveys asked employees to comment on how their company supports their work-life balance, sense of fulfilment, job satisfaction, psychological safety and financial security. Evaluations also included an assessment of how well the organisation was able to deliver consistency of their employee experience across all departments and seniority levels.

Analysis of the sector employee survey responses found that 93% of employees at the UK’s Best Workplaces for Consulting & Professional Services say, “Taking everything into account, I would say this is a great place to work” compared to a UK average for sector of 69%.

Kate Williams, people director – UK at Gleeds, commented: “I’m pleased to hear that Gleeds has been featured on the shortlist for the second year running in this category. In the crowded built environment consultancy marketplace, keeping the focus on supporting our colleagues to have a fulfilling, purposeful career, within the best environment possible, remains central to what makes our business unique.”

Benedict Gautrey, managing director of Great Place To Work UK, added: “By viewing employees as their greatest asset, leaders of these top-performing Consulting and Professional Services organisations work to ensure their projected employer image is aligned with employees’ real, lived experiences of the workplace. Best Workplaces recognise the vital role reputation plays in driving overall brand and business success – understanding that people (candidates, colleagues, and customers) are a brand’s most critical touchpoints. It’s great to see so many examples of organisations making their workplaces truly ‘great’. A huge congratulations to Gleeds for making it onto this list again.”

This is Gleeds’ seventh Best Workplaces acknowledgement from Great Place to Work since becoming accredited in November 2022, having previously been named in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing, Best Workplaces for Women and Best Workplaces UK lists.