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Thank you for your comment, and for the positive feedback around how our teams create an inclusive caring culture, both internally and for our clients.
We work incredibly hard at our people culture, and as a small business, we do prioritise as many feedback mechanisms as we can including an ‘always on’ online engagement survey, a colleague forum, ERGs, wellbeing and safe space workshops and an excellent EAP including wellbeing support. I believe that what we offer, for the size business we are, is excellent.
Regarding pay and bonuses, we have a bonus scheme that everyone is part of, which is based on company performance. Like many businesses in the last year, we have had to balance increasing employment costs (particularly NI), which impacted what we were able to do for discretionary pay rises this year. It’s worth saying that in previous years this has been different and discretionary pay rises have been given.
Regarding our recent re-organisation – we recently reorganised some roles as a foundation for our growth, and this meant that unfortunately some roles no longer existed. The new roles available were within a different pay banding, aligned to the skills needed. No-one’s pay was ‘reduced due to restructuring’, and our change process was implemented to the highest standard, one that I am really proud of the team for delivering.
I wish you well for the future, and thank you for your contribution to IE.
Janet - CEO