The consulting sector has come up trumps on this yr’s listing of greatest workplaces compiled by the AFR, with SixPivot named total winner and Slalom taking house the medium bracket award.
As judged by behavioural science consultancy Inventium, the annual AFR BOSS Greatest Locations to Work listing additionally chosen SixPivot as the highest firm within the ‘expertise’ class, whereas public sector consultancy Grosvenor obtained the honours within the ‘skilled companies’ class.
Alongside Grosvenor and Slalom, different consultancies to function within the high ten of the latter part included management & organisation agency Bendelta, international administration consultancy Kearney, design boutique Meld Studios, and tradition & management growth advisory Individuals Measures.
SixPivot
Established in Brisbane in 2015 by former DWS merchandise & practices director Religion Rees, SixPivot is a full stack software program growth and cloud consultancy which helps “startups, corporates, authorities and enterprise builders to conceptualise, construct and modernise operations, platforms and supply practices.” The corporate has a headcount of round 40 professionals, incomes it the ‘small organisation’ title.
In awarding it the general honours, the judges famous SixPivot’s “radical transparency” as to its HR strategy, with the agency having publicly launched its worker handbook which incorporates SixPivot’s work and promotion insurance policies, worker entitlements, skilled growth packages and wage bands. The outcome has been a 120 percent-plus enhance within the variety of job candidates in a decent tech expertise market.
“SixPivot’s collaborative worker handbook is a good instance of constructing information retrieval straightforward but additionally collaborative by way of having a handbook that’s open supply, thus permitting all workers the flexibility to replace it,” said Amantha Imber, the founder – and reluctant present CEO – of Inventium, which has additionally been beforehand lauded for its individuals and office improvements.
Slalom
In the meantime, international digital consultancy Slalom – having constructed its native headcount to greater than 330 professionals in simply 4 years since arriving down beneath – took out the ‘medium-sized’ organisation bracket as Australia’s greatest place to work, with the implementation of a rigorous inside management suggestions and evaluation software credited for enhancing the agency’s work tradition.
“I used to be impressed with Slalom’s strategy to obsessing over worker expertise,” Imber said. “The corporate’s Experience90 software permits leaders to get common information on the affect they’re having on their groups slightly than making an attempt to guide by way of guesswork. The software additionally supplies personalised steering and suggestions to leaders to enhance their scores.”
