Welcome.

Welcome to Britain’s Top Employers 2008 website. Britain's Top Employers 2008 offers incisive and compelling insights into some of the smartest, most forward-thinking companies in the country. Written by leading journalists, the comprehensive and independent company profiles show just what makes a top employer.

Each company’s performance has been judged and rated by CRF’s independent panel of experts against the following criteria:

 
  • Pay and benefits
  • Career & Training
  • Knowledge Management
  • Employee Relations
  • Diversity
  • Leadership
  • CSR
  • Environmental Sustainability
 

All companies that have been selected for Britain's Top Employers 2008, have leading-edge approaches to communicating with employees, improving productivity and mobilising people for competitive advantage.

Testimonials

"IBM was delighted to participate in the 'Britain's Top Employer' publication for 2008. In an increasingly competitive marketplace, I believe it's important for every company to stand back and reflect on its employment practices, policies and benefits if it is to maintain an attractive and stimulating Employee Value Proposition. This is especially important when competing with other global firms located within and outside the UK. Employees are more mobile today than ever before, and as such have more choice as to where they want to work. We found the combination of a questionnaire and interview the right approach for exploring the facts and culture of IBM, and I look forward to the feedback that the process will give us, to help shape our company for the future."

Jonathan Ferrar, HR Director, IBM UK

"McDonald's UK chose to participate in 'Britain's Top Employers' again this year primarily as this list is compiled by an independent panel of experts. It provides us with an objective view of our business and allows us to be measured against other great companies and brands across the UK."

Nicky Ivory, Reputation & Resourcing Consultant, McDonald's Restaurants Ltd

"Continually striving to be a world-class employer is at the heart of the Selfridges business. Taking part adds great value to us in terms of benchmarking with other leading employers and gives us the opportunity to continue to improve how we engage with our people."

Maria Stanford, HR Director, Selfridges

"We chose to participate in Britain's Top Employer for two main reasons, firstly as a way of benchmarking ourselves against the market place in general not just other retailers and also as a way of attracting new recruits, whether they join as Non Management or further along in their careers, full time or part time, we need to tap into as wide a pool as we can and Britain's Top Employers is a good way of doing that. Combine these with the straightforward way in which the survey is administered it fitted our needs well."

Paul Backhouse, Head of Personnel Policy and Benefits, John Lewis Partnership

Workplace Statistics

Did you know...?

The following information is extracted from the data collected in the 2008 HR Benchmark™ survey among UK companies. The survey covered a range of industry sectors and underpins the latest Britain’s Top Employers™ 2008 project.

  • Around 84% of new graduates at UK companies start on a gross annual salary of £20-30,000. 7.59% start on more than £30,000.
  • Over 46% of graduates with five years’ experience can expect to receive a gross annual salary in excess of £36,000.
  • 70.89% of companies reported that the maximum achievable total remuneration of their executive group was in excess of £200,000.
  • 27% of companies contribute 4-6% to retirement funds (pension schemes) while 29% contribute 7-9%
  • UK companies say that the most important factors that share option programmes are based upon are: level of responsibility; used as a reward; individual and company performance; and as a mechanism for staff to buy shares under favourable conditions.
  • On benefits, 91.14% of organisations offer flexible hours; 94.94% have a pension scheme; 92.41% offer study assistance or study leave; and 81.01% offer extended maternity leave.
  • Company cars are now offered by only 59% of companies.
  • More than 74% of UK companies say that mentoring or coaching is made available to all staff.

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