This year, the Good Employer Guide takes on a new format. In the past we asked companies to outline the range of benefits they offered employees, as well as their record on such measures as staff turnover and gender and ethnic balance. 

As construction industry employers become increasingly sophisticated, it is getting harder and harder to differentiate between them through numbers only, so this year we decided to focus more on the qualitative rather than the quantitative. We still asked companies to tell us their full range of benefits, but we also asked firms to enter themselves into one of five awards categories – declaring whether they believed they were doing something special to support training; wellbeing; connection and communication; flexible working and parental policies; or recruitment, outreach and inclusion.

Management sought to give employees a greater voice in company decision-making to tap into a spirit of innovation

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