We celebrate one year of being employee-owned!
7 September 2022We've been employee-owned one whole year! And what a great year it has been for the company...
After twenty years of organic, and often double-digit growth, we have continued to strengthen -- despite the challenges faced by the industry during the pandemic. Our growth was highlighted in the latest MRS Research Live Industry Report 2022 where we were named as one of the 'fastest growing individual agencies'.
Changes and improvements
Immediately after becoming employee owned, we took a long hard look at ourselves to help us to identify how we could improve as a company and make DJS Research a better place to work.
We gathered feedback from staff across the business on our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats and used it to help shape our strategic plan for the next two years. And we’ve already used our findings to implement a number of changes!
We could see from feedback that staff needed extra resource and support and so we invested in 30 new staff members across all levels and launched our new junior researcher programme. This is not only helping to support staff wellbeing in addition to our other initiatives (yoga, massage and wellbeing walks!) but is helping us to deliver our projects more efficiently. It's great to see that our partners appreciate this too – with 91% saying they believe that DJS Research cares about their wellbeing in our latest MyDJS survey.
We have also been listening to our employees through EO Voice. Every team within the company has an EO Voice representative which meets quarterly to discuss ideas, suggestions, and improvements for the company. These are fed back to either the DJS Research Board or our Trust Board...
The findings of our latest MyDJS employee engagement survey shows that 99% of our partners are happy with our EO status -- and 92% say they believe as a company we are going in the right direction.
We will be celebrating our one-year anniversary with a company-wide garden party this September. Another great opportunity to get the team together!