Welcome to the Vibrant Workplace Blog, the place where you can learn more about Verified Vibrant Workplaces that have proven their people most often:
- Have a Good or Great day at work
- Are Engaged with the work they do
- Think others should come and work too!
This has been evidenced during our 12-week Vibrant Workplace Accelerator – a cultural optimisation programme we created to help companies become the best employers they can be and give confidence to jobseekers in where they’re taking a job.
Importantly, our analysis is backed by facts – coming directly from the workforce in these businesses via our employee experience platform, mooqi!
So, without further ado…
The UK & Ireland’s First Verified Vibrant Workplace Is…
We’re thrilled to share with you the UK & Ireland’s ***first ever*** Verified Vibrant Workplace – the wonderful team of Newry headquartered – Kukoon!!!
We have the unequivocal evidence to know that Kukoon is a company that cares about its people as our insights come directly from the employees working there! In fact, our process revealed that Kukoon employees have a MASSIVE 17.02 TIMES as many positive as negative days at work!!
When Kukoon started the Vibrant Workplace Accelerator they defined a project purpose statement:
“Building a tribe to revolutionize the Rug industry.”
Kukoon recognise the value of a tribe of people who are happy, healthy and engaged as it means they do better business. On their Vibrant Workplace journey Kukoon actually INCREASED their employee retention intentions by 12.67%!
So, what’s life like at Kukoon? Well, who better to tell us than Kukoon’s Managing Director: Simon Ward!
- Tell us about your company, what does Kukoon do and where are you located?
“We are Kukoon. We are an award winning online and instore rug retailer, who sell stylish rugs at affordable prices. We are home to thousands of rugs, designed in house, and shipped all across the world. We are proud to be one of the largest Home Interiors ecommerce channels across the UK & Ireland. We do it all from our Kukoon HQ in Newry, Co Down.”
- What types of jobs do you offer?
“At Kukoon we offer a wide variety of opportunities! The three main areas are Operations, Commercial and Creative, but we can’t forget about Finance and HR etc.
“Operational range from Warehousing , Dispatch, and Customer service, while Commercial roles focus on E-commerce, Data and Supply Chain Management. Our Creative team dive into Marketing, Design and Product Management.”
- Why does culture and employee experience matter to you?
“Kukoon’s purpose is to build a tribe that will revolutionise the rug industry. We have realised it’s not about clock watching or micro-managing, but creating an environment where people can thrive. Building the right culture means our employees are constantly delivering discretionary effort – something that you can’t put a value on.”
- Why did you choose to take part in the Vibrant Workplace Accelerator?
“At Kukoon we are always looking at ways to improve, it’s one of our values, this includes our culture and our tribe – the program was a fantastic way to do this.”
- Now that you’ve completed it, do you think it was worthwhile? What did you get from the experience?
“Definitely! We have gained insight from the program that will allow us to push forward and make improvements across the company.”
- Our benchmarks are high, what do you think Kukoon does well that enabled you to achieve them?
“In Kukoon we describe ourselves as a Tribe – it is this bond as a team to achieve and succeed together that has helped us to achieve the standards, while having a bit of craic in the process.”
- What does it mean to you to be a Verified Vibrant Workplace?
“To Kukoon it means we are succeeding in achieving our purpose, but we won’t stop here, we can go further!”
- What do you think this should tell jobseekers?
“To potential talent it shows we are employee focused and committed to pushing boundaries in creating a workplace where the Sunday scaries are a thing of the past!”
- Where can people find out more about careers with you?
“To learn more about us, you can visit our career page https://www.kukoonrugs.com/pages/careers or our LinkedIn”
Team Kukoon!!
If you would like to hear more about their story Simon will be joining us as a guest speaker at the Vibrant Workplace Forum on November 5th!!
The forum is the place where we bring together business professionals to learn how to create vibrant workplaces and jobseekers who want to connect with them.
Here’s a few details on our upcoming event (final speaker reveal 14th October as we announce the next Verified Vibrant Workplace!!):
We have a maximum capacity for this event of 50 people, so get your tickets here while there are some remaining!
If you don’t manage to get a ticket, follow the Vibrant Workplace Podcast as every Verified Vibrant Workplace gets featured in an exclusive episode!
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Craig Thompson
Vibrant (Founder)