Mayden are working to be the kind of company that people actively seek out

We believe that every member of our community of staff deserves to be treated with respect and that the company should create and nurture conditions that means that everyone can thrive, whatever thriving means for them.

Creating and enabling colleagues to maintain a good work / life balance has always been important for us. Our organisational values help guide us in developing our company culture further: contribution (everybody matters), collaboration (we do our best work together), transparency (sharing information openly and widely enables better decision making) and forward thinking (we believe in identifying where we can improve and actively working to make those improvements happen).

We want to be an employer that other companies can learn from, setting standards that we believe companies should aspire to. We are working to be the kind of company that people actively seek out because they want to work with us and be a part of our team. We know that we haven’t got everything right yet, but we are always working towards improving areas where we know we can do better.

Our staff survey results show that our colleagues value working at Mayden for a wide variety of reasons, including enjoying a healthy working / life balance and appreciating the flexibility that the company offers.

We work purposefully to create and maintain an environment and culture where people can really enjoy their work as we believe that when people are happy they are more likely to fully bring their energy and enthusiasm for the greater good of the company and our customers.

At the same time, Mayden has enjoyed considerable commercial growth and success over the last few years. Creating the kind of environment where people genuinely want to work doesn’t have to be at the expense of the bottom line.

Establishing good employment practice across the region should ideally make it easier to attract talent to the organisations that are based here. It should also help ensure that people stay in the region, contributing to the local economy, as they want to be part of organisations that take a fair and ethical approach to treating their workforce well.

Adopting these standards of good practice may feel like a vanguard movement at the moment but companies have an increasing obligation to conduct themselves in an ethical way that has regard for the people they employ and regard for the communities and planet that we are a part of. The south west has an opportunity to lead the way in the south of England and to be at the forefront of the movement with other regions across the country.

It’s a win-win. Good for the employee and good for the employer. The cost of not investing in the principles of the charter is probably also the more expensive option in the long run as it’s harder to attract talent and then equally hard to retain it.