Sapient Officially A Great Place To Work In The UK For The Third Consecutive Year
LONDON – May 28, 2008 – Sapient, the global services firm, has been recognised as one of the 50 best places to work in the UK by the 2008 Financial Times Top 50 “Great Places to Work” report. It is the third consecutive year that Sapient has received the accolade, which highlights how the company’s Strategic Context of “building a great company enabling human potential” is being realised daily.
Sapient’s Strategic Context - its framework that consists of a common purpose, vision and set of values that connect every Sapient person to the company’s future – has been instrumental in growing the UK business to £63 million in 2007 and expanding its London workforce by over 100 new people. Growing the company is essential to meet the increasing demand for Sapient’s services from clients. However, Sapient is committed to growing with those people whom it knows will thrive in its dynamic culture and can align to its Strategic Context.
Mike Reid, UK Managing Director at Sapient, said: “Other companies individually offer similar services to Sapient, but no other firm combines the skills and expertise required to address the opportunity found at the intersection of marketing, business and technology. We therefore consistently offer our people projects in which they are defining the future of the interactive marketing and consulting markets. But the most important reason people love working at Sapient is not what we do; it’s how we do it.
Being recognised as one of the “Best Places to Work ” in the UK for the third year running is proof that our unique culture, and our total commitment to our clients’ success, has a direct and profound influence on our own business success.”
The UK’s Best Workplaces Programme is run by the Great Place to Work® Institute UK, which forms part of the world’s largest scheme to recognise excellence in people management. The Great Place to Work ® Institute evaluates the degree of trust in relationships at applicant organisations from employee responses to the Trust Index Employee Survey and Culture Audit management survey. The list has been put together annually since 2003. Since 2004, Sapient has featured regularly on the Best Places to Work lists in the UK, India, Germany, Canada and USA.
About Sapient
Sapient, a global services firm, operates two groups - Sapient Interactive and Sapient Consulting - that help clients compete, evolve and grow in an increasingly complex marketplace. Sapient Interactive provides brand and marketing strategy, award-winning creative work, web design and development and emerging media expertise. Sapient Consulting provides business and IT strategy, process and systems design, package implementation and custom development, as well as outsourcing services such as testing, maintenance and support.
Sapient’s passion for client success—evidenced by its ability to foster collaboration, drive innovation and solve challenging problems—is the subject of case studies on leadership and organizational behaviour used by MBA students at both Harvard and Yale. Leading clients, including BP, Essent Energie, Hilton International, Janus, Sony Electronics and Verizon, rely on the company’s unique approach to drive growth and market momentum. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Sapient operates across North America, Europe and India.
For more information, please visit www.sapient.com
About Great Place to Work® Institute
Great Place to Work® Institute, Inc., co-founded by best-selling business author Robert Levering and organisational consultant Amy Lyman, Ph.D. is a global research and consulting firm dedicated to “building a better society by helping companies transform their workplaces.” The Institute works with FORTUNE magazine and other leading publications in 26 countries to publish and recognise the “Best Companies to Work For”. The Institute also provides advisory and assessment services for organisations who seek to create great workplaces of their own, offers annual conferences on creating trust in the workplace and researches and shares best practices and trends of best companies. In addition to its global headquarters in San Francisco, Great Place to Work® Institute has 26 affiliates in countries throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia.
For more information, please visit: www.greatplacetowork.com.
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Sapient is a registered service mark of Sapient Corporation.