Talon named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024
The Sunday Times, powered by WorkL, has revealed the Best Places to Work in the UK for 2024 – and Talon have made the list! This nationwide workplace survey honours and celebrates Britain’s top employers – which number over 500 organisations across industries and sizes – and acknowledges the best workplaces for women, LGBTQIA+ community, disabled employees, ethnic minorities, younger and older workers, and wellbeing.
Read what The Sunday Times said about us below:
Talon – Bold ideas are encouraged at this London-based Out of Home agency, with its 182 UK staff, who receive twice-yearly appraisals, part of a people-focused philosophy. Active leadership motivates the diverse team, who are encouraged to go all out to impress. On-site massages are provided for all staff, who are tasked with completing 50 hours of training each year. Talon offers flexible working as well as glide time, allowing workers to fit their hours between 8am and 6.30pm.
Outside Thinking – Runs in the Talon Family
We’re proud that our employees have voted us as one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in the UK.
Talon is the destination where bold ideas are encouraged and our people are driven to be the differentiator. Kantar’s inclusion index ranks Talon at 76.7%, +6.7% vs all agencies and +26.7% vs UK benchmark. We provide two internships per year through Creative Access and our team receives mentoring and memberships through MEFA. Talon are accredited Living Wage employers.
Our people-first philosophy prioritises creating a workplace culture where everyone feels they belong. At Talon, we’re achieving this through our policies and practices that best support our staff. Some of our policies and practices include:
- 5 Internal Cogs (employee-led committees) – Charity, Social, Belong, Sustainability and the People Forum. Each Cog has a board sponsor to represent them in the boardroom
- Our ‘Belong’ Cog – Talon’s internal DEI committee – works with leadership to shape working practices, policies and recruitment strategy.
- Buddy System – Provides new employees with a cross-department support system, introductory lunch and quarterly coffee check-ins
- Launched new policies including pregnancy loss, menopause and menstrual leave alongside paid fertility leave and free sanitary products in all offices
- School’s Out policy – Supporting working parents and carers
- Recently awarded the IPA’s People-First Promise
Embedded throughout our business is a culture for learning and progression. Talon’s learning and development framework has senior buy-in and filters through the entire business. There is great importance placed on training at Talon with all staff tasked with completing 50 hours each year. 360-degree feedback and appraisal systems take place twice a year and our employees benefit from role and salary benchmarking. The team also benefit from “Grow Together”, our cross-company mentoring platform, and our “Grow Academy”, an e-learning platform that includes recordings of all live sessions.
How the Best Places to Work survey works
The Sunday Times partnered with employee-experience platform WorkL to deliver fresh insights into what makes a Best Place to Work. The Sunday Times Best Places to Work awards survey uses 26 questions from WorkL’s employee engagement survey, developed by behavioural scientists, data analysts, psychologists, business leaders, academics and other independent parties to most accurately monitor employee engagement, wellbeing and discretionary effort in the workplace. To achieve a high overall engagement score, an organisation must score well across WorkL’s six-step framework:
1. Reward and Recognition
2. Instilling Pride
3. Information Sharing
4. Empowerment
5. Wellbeing
6. Job Satisfaction
Read the full list online – Best Places to Work 2024
If you are interested in working at Talon, view our job openings here
