Surveying the employee landscape with Selway Joyce

About:

Selway Joyce is a specialist construction cost and management consultancy. They deliver expert quantity surveying, project management, and cost control services across prime residential, heritage, commercial and institutional projects. 

The challenge: 

Selway Joyce faced a challenge in which the team did not value the current investment in their employee benefits package, which affected engagement and potential retention. 

The Solution:

• We undertook an employee engagement survey across all areas of the employee experience, but with a 'deep dive' on exploring various options of employee benefits and their intrinsic value to the team.
• Analysis and presentation of the data, leading to a project to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of additional benefits.
• We brokered additional benefits, including the introduction of a separate fund for professional development, life assurance, death in service benefit, increased pension contributions and milestone recognition of key life events.
• We also developed an approach to communicating benefits, providing regular benefit reminders to the team to keep them ‘front of mind’.

The outcome: 

After 12 months, when re-surveyed, the feeling of value provided by the employee benefits had improved by over 30% and increased employee satisfaction by over 

“The HR Dept team have been instrumental in the turnaround of a business I recently acquired. The focus was a turnaround with full staff retention; this was achieved due to Sandra and the team’s efforts on the HR front. I was able to focus on the operations of the business without being concerned about the challenges of HR with the HR Dept on side.”- Dean Adkins, CEO at Selway Joyce Ltd