6 days ago
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- The Herald Scotland
2 BCP businesses named among the UK's best places to work
Great Place to Work has revealed its 2025 list of the UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing.
The list champions 350 companies that are "leading the way in creating positive, supportive work environments for their employees".
It is broken down into four categories based on the company's size: small, medium, large, and super large.
Explaining the methodology, Great Place to Work says: "To determine our UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing list, our culture experts analysed thousands of employee surveys.
"They assessed their holistic experiences of wellbeing at work through fundamental facets of employee wellbeing, including work-life balance, sense of fulfilment, job satisfaction, and financial security.
"Evaluations also included an assessment of how well the organisation was able to deliver consistency of their employee experience across all departments and seniority levels."
In the small category, Bournemouth's Just Shutters and Poole's Vizst Technology were recognised.
Two BCP businesses named among UK's best places to work
Just Shutters was founded in Bournemouth by Chris Rocker back in 2006, and is a leading provider of plantation shutters.
Discussing the business on its website, Rocker says: "We live and work in Bournemouth and luckily we are only about half a mile from the sea. I spent most of my school years here but moved away to join the Royal Air Force."
He continued: "In 2006 after having fallen in love with Plantation Shutters, a dream of starting a specialist company to meet the growing demand in the field was realised, Just Shutters was born.
"We have grown steadily and strongly over the past decade and now there is a Just Shutters franchisee covering over 150 towns and cities in the UK."
According to Great Place to Work, there are 14 employees at the Bournemouth site, and 100% say it is a great place to work.
This is in comparison to 54% of employees who would agree with that sentiment at a typical UK-based company.
Alongside that, Vizst Technology had 98% of its 46 employees say it was a great place to work.
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Based in Poole, it is a privately owned, UK-based technology partner which works with a number of enterprises and public sector organisations.
They offer services such as networking and cybersecurity that encompass innovative IT strategies.
Overall, in the small businesses category, Just Shutters ranked in 6th place out of 100, and Vizst Technology was in 34th place.
