It’s not hard to find stories about how Google is such a great employer, they have amazing canteens, free gyms and a generally all round “cool” attitude. I have never worked for Google but I must admit that I think it’d be pretty interesting but also pretty tiring. They do hard and complicated work there and though I’d enjoy it; I’d get burnt out pretty fast. Now we come to my current employer, Admiral Car Insurance.
Admiral has a very good policy which can best be summed up as “Happy employees produce higher quality work”. It’s easy to find a company that emsays/em it subscribes to that but this is one of the few cases where I’ve seen proof of it. I could list how the vending machines are very cheap, everybody from sales staff to managers dress casually and how the managers are really nice people but I think I can better sum it up with one line.
There is a strongMinistry of Fun/strong. That’s right, groups of people take it in turns to organise competitions, trips and general coolness. Before you worry that I’m giving away company secrets; it’s all located on their website a href=”http://www.joinadmiral.co.uk/Culture.aspx”here/a.
I must say that when I left university a year and a half ago with my lovely degree in Computer Engineering I never thought I’d be working as a salesman for a company quite as cool as this.