19/06/2026
At the end of last year, we benchmarked our employee benefits. Were we offering enough to our current team? What more could we do to retain them? Could we get an already highly performing, engaged team to deliver “a little bit” more? How could we pitch ourselves as a more attractive employer so that more consultants would want to join us?
As a “small” (but perfectly formed!) owner-managed business, we can flex our pay grades and benefits as often and as quickly as we want.
At the end of last year, we delivered a couple of new benefits (there’s more coming soon!).
We introduced a new company car scheme. Also, an enhanced quarterly bonus scheme that recognised and rewarded high performance.
When we introduced this at the beginning of December, the team were a little 🙄😬🤷🏻♀️
Initially, they thought it was unachievable. Yet, low and behold, at the end of Q2, one of the team has smashed the first target, is on track to hit the next level in Q3, and the rest of the team are hot on her heels!
This makes me so happy, not only as a business owner (naturally! 🤣) but for the team. I’m so proud of how they have found more in the tank, dug deeper and worked even bloody harder (and smarter) than they already do 🫶.
As we’ve learnt from Jeremy Snell, we don’t always need to find extra hours in the week to get better results.
Another benefit we introduced was flexi WFH Fridays. We already have a WFH Wednesday, which breaks the week up nicely. But we then offered 1 or 2 Fridays a month for the team to have the option to WFH. At the beginning of the year most of us chose to be in the office - it was cold at home, the office was warm and we actually like being in the office together!
Today I know the whole team will be grateful to be WFH. Laura Powell won’t be rushing the school run, Clarissa Hough won’t be battling the M4, Holly Williams and Jasmine Dorel, having both just got back from their holidays, will be getting the washing done, in between calls (probably multitasking and doing both at the same time knowing those two!).
And, for the first time Dan and I have taken advantage and moved our office to our caravan in Devon.
So I got to wake up this view this morning 🌳☀️. And I get to take Rodney for a lunchtime ball chasing session, having put in a shift himself this morning!
I’m loving recruitment life right now!
June has been an Autograph Recruitment record breaking month because of the teams consistent hard work. And I know that they won’t be taking their foot off the gas today and will keep pushing for more and better.
Thanks Team Autograph (which is set to expand in a few weeks as we welcome a couple of new starters to the team!) 👏💃
