Investment in people

We have been a local employer in Wiltshire for over 20 years and are proud to have opened our first overseas office in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2022

Our employees are our greatest asset. We strive to be a responsible employer by creating an environment that gives employees the desire and ability to flourish. We place great importance on professional and personal development and we are eager to provide employees with the tools to succeed.

We observe fair labour practices in both the UK and Indonesia, and provide flexibility in working arrangements, including part-time hours, flexible working days, dog-friendly offices and regular working from home arrangements.

We are an equal opportunities employer and seek to employ an ethically-diverse workforce. We also positively encourage all genders to apply for job opportunities within Reuben Digital and would like to see more women in programming roles.

Reuben Digital has collaborated with Cirencester College since 2015 to offer an apprenticeship scheme for young people wishing to work in the digital sector. Four employees are working on or have completed their apprenticeships with us and are now full-time, permanent members of staff, qualified in either a Digital Marketing or Web Developer Level 3 BTEC.

We also support the annual work experience week operated by our local schools, and each year have a young person spend a week at Reuben experiencing what it is like to work in a busy tech agency.

As we work on the detail of our CSR Policy, we will continue to offer employee benefits that empower, upskill and reward our staff.

    1. After signing up to FuturePlus – a platform providing a complete sustainability and ESG solution – in March, we’re pleased that we have passed our first set of 3-month goals with flying colours. Much of this quarter’s action points centred around the creation of a Staff Handbook to combine all HR, H&S, data and security policies into one central reference point. As a result, our ‘actual score’ has jumped up, which means we are closer to our ambition score – onto the next 3-month goals now!

      FuturePlus score

    2. Our FuturePlus commitments also encourages us to spread the word about how our staff can make positive changes in their everyday life to reduce their carbon footprint at home, by recycling more, installing low energy lighting, and making sure that their home IT and electrical equipment is in "eco mode". We’ve promoted the free carbon footprint calculator provided by the World Wildlife Fund at https://footprint.wwf.org.uk. It's very quick and easy to get a broad idea of your individual footprint and where you could make the biggest differences. It even compares your results to other peoples in your postcode area! All rather fascinating...

      The Reuben team also benefit from:

      • Sustainable travel choices: We are a member of the Climate Perks Scheme to encourage non-flight travel for holidays.
      • Volunteering for nature’s benefit: We offer each employee up to 2 paid days per year for volunteering activities.
      • Working from Home Policy - reduces our commuting CO2e emissions

       

    3. Reuben Digital was a proud host of the Pimento 6pm Club on 27 March in London. This was a networking event organised by Pimento, the UK’s largest community of independent digital and marketing agencies, businesses and consultants. Ray started the evening off with a short introduction to our team and work, sharing our technology and sustainability journey. It was a great evening of networking and collaboration with fellow agencies and consultants.

    1. Big news for March – Reuben Digital has recently signed up to FuturePlus – a platform providing a complete sustainability and ESG solution. This is going to help us transform our sustainability ambitions into a practical roadmap for us to follow in 5 key areas: Climate, Diversity & Inclusion, Economic, Social and Environment. We also gain access to guidance both online and through a team of expert advisors on how to achieve our goals on becoming a truly sustainable company. We have completed the onboarding process where we are measured by answering and providing evidence to approximately 200 questions covering all areas of our business operations and have received our actual and ambition scores as shown below. Our first FuturePlus report will be available to read soon.

    2. For our Highworth Team, a hybrid working pattern offers the best of both worlds – quiet solitude for figuring out the tough coding challenges at home and some refreshing debate and team collaboration when in the office. Since January, we’ve changed our policy and require the whole team to come to the Highworth office every Tuesday and Thursday – it’s been refreshing to have a roomful of people (and dogs) back in the office, surrounded by the hum of productive chatter.

  1. Gill, our Sustainability Lead at Reuben Digital, has passed her Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Environmental Sustainability course, and is all fired up to turn the theory into practical steps for the company, as we move towards a sustainable business model.

  1. Congratulations to Louis Stephens who started a new position as Director of Business at Reuben Digital this month!
  2. Gill, our Sustainability Lead, is progressing through her Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Environmental Sustainability course – it’s a very intensive course with a lot of content squeezed into 12 short weeks but she is enjoying learning about sustainable development theory, for example ‘The Triple Bottom Line’ where true sustainability depends on a balance of ‘People, Planet and Profit’.

  1. In May Reuben Digital welcomed a new apprentice, confusingly called Reuben! Part of the Stephens family (son of Ray, brother of Louis), Reuben will be working towards his Level 3 Marketing apprenticeship qualifications over the next couple of years, and working primarily on social media content. This is the fourth apprentice here at Reuben Digital – we passionately believe that the combination of studying for a formal qualification whilst gaining practical work experience produces skilled young people with excellent prospects to succeed within the company.
  2. Gill has recently registered on a Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Environmental Sustainability course, that will be completed online over the next 8-12 weeks. This will increase her knowledge in this area as she continues to tackle Reuben Digital’s carbon footprint and is a great example of the company’s encouragement for staff to continue their professional development and study for new qualifications.

  1. In January, we welcomed Winda Hidayat to the Indonesian developer team and therefore cracked one of our biggest challenges we had set ourselves – to recruit a women into a programming role finally! Not only is Winda a fun and warm team player but a really talented developer too, and she has taken every complicated programming job in her stride, so much so that she has passed her probationary period one whole month early. We hope that Winda will be the first of many women employed by Reuben in future years, ensuring that Gill (over in the Highworth office) is short of feminine company no more!
  2. We are proud to have joined the Climate Perks network helping staff choose clean travel by offering paid journey days for flight-free holidays. Since January, if our staff travel by coach, train or ferry instead of flying on holiday, we are giving them paid journey days, on top of their annual leave. This will encourage our employees to consider greener travel choices in their leisure time. Flying is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions globally so for those who love travelling, flying less is one of the most powerful actions we can take to protect the planet. We understand that annual leave is limited, making it difficult to choose slower transport modes - so we want to help staff live their values by ensuring flight-free travel doesn’t eat into leisure time. Find out more about Climate Perks.

  1. Founder Ray Stephens and Technical Director Mark Vincent visited our Jakarta overseas office in October. The trip incorporated training and mentoring opportunities, as well as sessions on the implementation of DevOps and our new technology stack.  It was also a great time for some team bonding…over an occasional beer too!
  2. Reuben Digital continued 2022’s successful wellbeing initiative by offering 3 “Welfare Fridays” to each employee to take in June, July and August. Not to be used in conjunction with annual leave, these Fridays aimed to give team members a long weekend to indulge in favourite sports or hobbies…or simply to rest up and relax!
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