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Thrive Marketing directors Rachel Townsend Green
and Johnny Woods (right) with their team (left-to-right)
Rachael Farley, Sarah Burns, Tom Armstrong, Reza
Snowdon, Scott Foreman and Tom Mather.
Marketing agency rewards
employees with benefits scheme
T
hrive Marketing is introducing a raft
of benefits for its employees.
In line with the standard annual
review, the agency has just unveiled
an updated benefits packages to reward and
retain existing employees, as well as attract
new talent.
The agency, which has been a part of the
Aycliffe Business Park landscape for five
years, has been hard at work revamping
its service offering for twelve months and
developing a number of new employee
initiatives.
Directors Rachel Townsend Green and
Johnny Woods are now offering existing
and future employees a variety of benefit s
including:
• Enhanced holiday allowance for long
term service
• Flexible working hours
• Healthcare benefits package
• Monthly team social events
The new package of benefits is aimed
at celebrating the team’s work and
achievements, as well as maintaining a high
staff morale and excellent staff relationships.
Rachel said: “For me, I know that being at
work takes up so much of your life and it’s
important that although there is a workload
to be completed and sometimes it’s
stressful, that it’s also enjoyable!”
The team, based at the Xcel Centre,
already enjoys a number of “fun” perks,
including team days out, which are now
becoming a monthly event, Spotify playing
in the office, personalised mugs, birthday
cakes and ‘Foodie Fridays’.
Another activity that has recently been
introduced are regular yoga classes, with
Neil Black of Yoga Ready, to encourage
improved health and wellbeing for staff and
business connections.
The agency recently unveiled the new
brand and website for Aycliffe Business Park
and currently does business with a number
of organisations on the park.
Rachel added: “We’re not a huge agency
and we don’t want to be, which allows us to
be inventive and intuitive and we wanted to
apply that approach to how we reward and
celebrate our staff.
“As a mid-sized agency, we can focus on
maintaining excellent relationships between
our team and using that friendly atmosphere
as a warm welcome to new customers.”
Like many other businesses on the park
and across the country, Thrive has also
recently enrolled it employees onto the
Workplace Pension scheme, but they’ve also
organised additional financial support.
Rachel added: “We organised for an
independent financial advisor to come and
speak to our team and the feedback was
really great.
“It has been an incredibly beneficial
activity for our staff, who have now received
impartial advice on a variety of topics,
from buying houses to opening savings
accounts.”
The team is now planning on rolling out
additional activities in 2018, on the back of
a successful year of advertising its inbound
marketing services.
Thrive Marketing Limited is a
marketing agency offering content, social,
web and brand services. Find out more
at www.thriveability.co.uk. Learn more
about Yoga Ready at yogaready.co.uk
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