Our clients

I have been working with Sarah at the HR Department for over 5 years and have received nothing but timely, helpful and appropriate responses to a variety of our human resources needs.  We used to tackle this internally but once we realised, we could benefit from allocating that labour elsewhere, we have improved efficiency as a business and benefited from having outsourced this service.  Sometimes emotions can get tied up in assessing and viewing HR-related issues and having someone like Sarah give us a professional perspective can help us from being our own worst enemy.  We are very grateful to have her on-board and she has been an instrumental part of our growth and development as a business.

We have worked with Sarah Bradley and The HR Dept using their retained advice line service since 2021 and they have always been responsive to our needs and delivered timely employment law advice when we have required it.  Sarah is excellent at keeping our employment contracts and HR policies up to date when there are changes required and has supported us by attending and chairing employee meetings.  We would highly recommend their unbeatable services to any small business.

I would highly recommend Sarah Bradley at the HR Department for Outsourced HR Services. Sarah has supported us over the last 5 years with invaluable expertise in all things HR, specifically; Compliance, HR Management and Employee Relations. Sarah’s collaborative approach allows her to truly understand our business, values and culture. As the business continues to grow and ideas or challenges arise, we can always rely on Sarah to provide clear advice tailored to us. A great support for any SME.

We have used HR Dept for some years now on an ongoing basis but recently specifically on recruitment. HR Dept were very useful ensuring the advert was well written and seen, to screening initial applicants. This meant our recruitment process went very smoothly, applicants were kept well informed as to time and location of interview and recruited quickly with no gap between the previous employee leaving and new employee starting.

A few years ago, the Sigma Group reached out to The HR Dept. to support with an ER related matter and advise us accordingly. Little did we know at the time, that five years later, we would be continuing to work with HR Dept. having forged an excellent working partnership. Notwithstanding the challenges COVID brought to all businesses, Sigma being no exception. Our journey together has seen a significant period of growth within the Sigma Group, with turnover almost doubling and our workforce growing by over 100 colleagues, as we look to deliver our end-to-end Goods Not for Resale service offering into the UK’s largest retail clients.

Acquiring companies along the way we look to add value to that of our upstream and downstream supply chain. Our business complexity and growth invariably raise challenges where competent exemplar advice is required to assist with navigating the world of ER related matters. Having a trusted partner that can be agile and deliver at pace is critical to our business and is something The HR Dept have done with aplomb over the years.

This level of service and professionalism has not been impacted by the recent retirement of a HR Dept colleague, who over the period of support to Sigma, had embedded themselves to such an extent our colleagues thought they were a Sigma employee. Transitioning seamlessly to the new team, provided the assurance (not that we needed any) that we were in safe hands.

We feel The HR Dept’s support, proactivity and professionalism has been invaluable to the business and will continue to be. Most importantly we continue to work alongside the HR Dept. because of the shared approach, ethos and values, making them by virtue an extension of ourselves. We would highly recommend and not hesitate in doing so, for other companies who require industry leading support, to do the same.

Great advice, very patient too!..constant dialogue which is great.. very informative advice given, and we feel reassured everything is absolutely right and we are covered to proceed in the right way