Workingmums’ top employer award goes to John Lewis

The John Lewis Partnership took the principal award – for overall top employer – at the 2011 Workingmums Top Employer Awards, designed to celebrate leading companies’ achievements in the fields of diversity and work-life balance.

The partnership was praised by the judges for “the comprehensive and embedded nature of what it offered on work-life balance.”

The awards ceremony was held at London’s Soho Hotel on Wednesday 5^th October with business author Alison Maitland as keynote speaker.

Seven other category awards were presented, including three new for this year – childcare, talent attraction and working mums’ champion.  These went to:

Childcare: John Lewis Partnership

Employee engagement: Prudential

Innovation in flexible working: Accenture (last year’s overall winner)

SME (1-25 employees): Hireserve (IT firm)

SME (26-250 employees): DUO (shoe retailer)

Talent attraction: Virtual Sales Team

Working mums’ champion: Mia Drennan, Square Mile Connections

www.workingmums.co.uk/topemployerawards

● Ri5 is delighted to be the awards’ official media partner.

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