Workers Team

The Workers team consisted of Grace McGinn and Eadaoin Hennessy before Eadaoin’s recent departure for pastures greener😢. Together they worked on wove’s impact in relation to the team, evaluating contributions to their financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction.

What we’ve achieved to date

We used the questions on workers from the Bcorp accreditation process as a guide to where we needed to focus our efforts. Thinking about how we could support people in a variety of different scenarios at work, how we could improve on what we already did and articulate them in a way that everyone can understand. Some key examples of this are as follows;

• Since January 2023, the provision of private health insurance to every member of the team.
• We set new entitlements in relation to parental, sick and bereavement leave, including: – 38% increase in our maternity leave pay. – Increased our maternity leave full pay top up from 16 weeks to 26 weeks – Introduced 24 weeks leave full pay top up for the primary new parent through Adoption & Surrogacy
• We have allocated a significant budget specifically for our teams education. And encourage uptake via ongoing discussion and inclusion in our biannual staff reviews.
• We added an introduction course from IDEO to our onboarding process to introduce education & training to all employees at the outset.
• Actively track team satisfaction and happiness via anonymous questionnaires and returned an increase of 6% in Hi 2023. **

<aside> 🎉 Increase from 83% (Dec 22) to 89% (June 23) (as marked by our Happiness Index)

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What we aim to improve

Wellness Day

What it is: A wellness day is a leave day that can be taken by a member of team at very short notice notice. The purpose of it is to benefit your physical or mental well-being. It’s not a sick day, rather it’s an ‘I’m looking after myself day’.

How we do it: We need to introduce a policy for it, bring the team through the policy and finally, enter it in the employee manual.

How it’s measured: The policy will be developed by the end of the year and it will be presented at the Wove Day in January 2024 by the Bcorp workers team.

When: We are aiming to deliver this by Q1 2024.