In this episode of People at Work podcast, CEO of Enable Andrew Butt talks about the pros and cons of virtual hiring, how to maintain your culture when rapidly hiring and switching to remote work, and what he plans to do with the two offices once things go back to “normal.” To listen to the full podcast click here.Continue reading
Our COO, David Hunt has written an article for Recruiter.com on “How to keep your company culture healthy in the era of remote work”. There’s nothing more important for the maintenance of employee morale, engagement, and productivity than developing and sustaining the right culture. Culture underpins everything a company does, from establishing clear values and norms of behavior to the facilitation of open communication between departments and teams. Companies have to be cap...Continue reading
A 10-year work anniversary is a massive achievement and one we want to celebrate here at Enable. After graduating from University of Wales, Aberystwyth with a BSc in Computer Science, Ben worked as an IT technician in two local schools: a large Secondary school and a local Primary school. He spent some of his time there writing software to automate a number of their daily tasks and this confirmed that he wanted to pursue a career in software development and had the drive and knowledge to make th...Continue reading
With the rapid pace of growth in the tech industry, it is easy for software development companies to become overwhelmed by the volume of new technologies and frameworks. Here at Enable, we use a dedicated research process to ensure that new opportunities to improve both our clients’ products and our own standards aren’t missed. Let’s take a look at the benefits of performing research with some real-world examples.
We strive to create the best solutions, achieving excellent performance is key to this endeavour. There are already many measures we take to get the best possible performance out of our applications, with research tasks being our primary means of finding new and improved approaches. These may boil down to small-scale solutions to improve a feature or researching a new technology to improve our wider technology stack. For example, we have significantly upgraded our core technologies over the past few years, which has had a large positive impact on the performance of our sites.
We have modernised our core technologies such as Angular, .NET Core and Entity Framework Core, which form the base for all of our new solutions. For these technologies and many others we have introduced to our systems, extensive research is carried out before we introduce them.
On Saturday, July 13, our employees and their partners celebrated another year of success and innovation at the Home Guard Club in Tiddington for our third annual summer party!
Summer parties have become increasingly popular for companies over the years, with the huge appeal giving employees the opportunity to bond and help people from other departments get to know each other a lot better. These types of get-togethers are also an excellent opportunity to give our exceptionally loyal and motivated employees recognition for the hard work that they are doing and rewarding them for it. Retention is something that Enable prides itself on as we expect to grow to over 100 employees by the end of 2020.
One of Enable’s top priorities is to provide a positive environment for all of our employees to work in — this is reflected in our excellent Glassdoor employee reviews.
Workplace happiness isn’t just about competitive pay and benefits. Increasingly, more people are placing a higher value on wellbeing and working conditions, where flexibility, career progression and team bonding are an integral part of the company culture.
By investing time and effort into understanding what makes our people happy at work we improve both the general mood of each individual member of staff and overall morale. This investment in a positive culture helps individuals to feel included and valued in the company, which in turn encourages them to invest back.