Amoria Bond CASE STUDY ONE
Established in Manchester in 2006, Amoria Bond is a fast–growing recruitment consultancy that has since developed offices in the Netherlands, Germany and Singapore and now employs over 140 people. From its inception, the company’s founders recognised that the quality of their staff would be the difference between success and failure and invested heavily in employee benefits to help it recruit, develop and retain the best recruitment professionals. “Our people are predominantly goal orientated and mostly work within competitive sales–based roles,” explained Abi Mason, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, “so a lot of our benefits are engineered to recognise high achievement with the kind of rewards that appeal to staff who want to celebrate their success and achieve personal goals, whether they are focused on finances, additional time off work or otherwise.” The company provides a wide range of financial benefits, from a pension scheme and commission to a profit share plan for senior employees. Staff also become eligible for top of the range iPhones and a tiered company car programme as they progress and their levels of pay improve. It also provides a wide range of additional “time off” incentives, including two extra paid days off gifted to all employees over the Christmas break; an additional three days annual leave for those who achieve 100% attendance over the financial year; four “duvet days” a year for senior staff members and one for trainees; and a 1:30pm finish on Fridays for any consultants who have hit their objectives for the week.
Amoria Bond has created social break–out areas in its offices where space allows, such as its Amsterdam base where there is a bar, sofas, an Xbox, a pool table, and an outdoor terrace where the company hosts summer friends and family barbecues. As well as an award–winning training programme, the company has invested in wellbeing initiatives, including a visit by the Sale Sharks rugby club to talk to staff about its mental health awareness programme.
It has also set up the Amoria Bond Charitable Trust, through which employees get the chance to give back to the community and social causes, both locally and internationally. One of the biggest commitments made by the Trust to date was to build 100 houses for families in the impoverished town of Las Laderas on the outskirts of Lima in Peru, which it completed in 2017 after a visit from a team of employees. “We want people to be focused and to correlate professional success with additional rewards and freedoms, but we also want our people to feel that they are cared for,” explained Abi. “It’s a simple equation for us; providing the best benefits in the industry has a really positive impact on our ability to attract and keep hold of the best people.”
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