The wellbeing of our team is super important to us. We want everyone to feel valued, supported and challenged. We put a strong emphasis on personal development, making time for training, coaching, sharpening up our skills – and getting together outside the office.
It all makes the team tighter, and the work stronger.
One of our core beliefs is that a happy team flourishes and produces great work together. We aim to provide a supportive environment where everyone feels valued. As part of this continued focus, we incorporate the following as part of any role with us:
The company was founded on a desire to strike a good balance between home and work life. So whilst we’re passionate about what we do and committed to making great work, it’s important to us that every person on the team feels happy and valued - and finishes work on time. It’s rare to see us working into the night or on weekends, but if it happens then we give you back time off in lieu.
All full-time employees start with 25 days of annual leave (plus all bank holidays). You get an additional day of leave for every year of service, up to 5 more. We also close the studio between Christmas and New Year to give everyone more time to enjoy with friends and family. We fully support working parents and offer enhanced parental leave.
We keep regular tabs on industry standards when it comes to salary and aim to reward people more than fairly wherever possible. We review and talk about salary at least every six months as part of our performance reviews. We have a profit-share bonus scheme and a December bonus to help with the festivities. Our workplace pension scheme is with Nest and includes a 5% employer contribution. We’re also registered with the Brighton & Hove Living Wage Campaign and fully support disclosed salaries on job adverts. It’s all part of building a team that feels valued.
We’re dedicated to supporting people’s growth and development. We offer funded training opportunities and have a regular review process to reflect and set goals. Alongside the everyday giving and receiving of feedback, we use our appraisals to consolidate helpful feedback into goals to provide everyone the opportunity to get better at what we do.
We take wellbeing seriously. It’s always part of our check-in conversations and we’re signed up to the Being Well Together programme. We also have a Wellbeing Lead, trained in Mental Health First Aid. We offer all of our employees and their families private medical insurance which comes with dental cover, online GP access and a self-referred mental health pathway.
As a business, we’re taking steps to increase the positive impact we have on our clients, team, community and planet. We collect feedback from our projects and along with our own debriefs, use what we find to improve future outcomes. We run employee satisfaction surveys to learn about how we can build a better workplace. We offer Animation for Good discounts to positive causes and paid volunteering opportunities for local nonprofits. We’re 1% for the Planet members and use climate positive tools like Ecologi and B1G1 to give back.
Everyone gets direct access to the leadership team and is encouraged to share their thoughts and ideas. We’re a dynamic business that seeks continual improvement. We’re not afraid to make changes if we see the value so everyone on the team can help shape our future. We have an anonymous suggestion box and share regular team surveys for feedback.
Although we’re a majority studio-based culture, people have the option to work some of the week from home - either planned in advance or called on the day. We also offer working vacation days where people can work from any location globally to support extended periods of travel or visiting family.
We organise regular social events and away days. We have Monday breakfasts and Friday inspiration sessions to start and finish the week together. We also have summer and Christmas parties.
We have a super studio space in the centre of Brighton (North Laine area), with plenty of natural light and height-adjustable desks. Pretty much everything you could want is on our doorstep and we’re a 10-minute walk to the beach.
We’re a friendly bunch who are welcoming, open and fun. We approach things with what we feel is the right mix of professionalism and appreciation that we’re lucky enough to make animations for a living… You can’t take that too seriously!
We are a certified Great Place To Work! In October 2023, we took part in our second GPTW employee survey to learn a bit more about our workplace culture and where we can improve. The survey contained 67 statements about working here covering topics like Community, Fairness, Collaboration, Respect and Communication.
You can learn more about the results in our Impact Report.
We produced an Impact Report for our last year of
business, discussing what we’ve achieved and how we
want to improve in the coming year – for our team, clients,
communities and planet.
Download the full report here →
We’re a Certified B Corp which means we’re dedicated to using our business as a force for good. We have been verified to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
We’re a member of 1% for the Planet. This means we give at least 1% of our annual revenues to projects and causes chosen by each team member that positively impact the environment.
We’re proud to be a Company Partner with Creative Lives in Progress: an inclusive careers resource to transform the way emerging creatives access, understand and connect with the industry. We sponsor their work and support them by partnering to deliver portfolio review events.
We’re a Climate Positive Workforce. We use the Ecologi platform to offset the team’s carbon footprint by planting trees and funding carbon reduction projects. The Buff forest is now over 3,000 trees strong and grows every month!
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