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O2 is on Glassdoor

Chris_K — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 16:06:13 GMT

It's no secret that O2 is a great place to work - in fact, we were rated the 29th best place to work by Glassdoor this year, surrounded by some of the biggest global companies out there. And our CEO Mark Evans was voted the 13th top CEO this year too, with a massive 96% approval rating from employees.

See below some of the staff benefits and support available to them, taken from our Glassdoor page.

Staff benefits
Staff at O2 are well looked after, with countless benefits and support options available to us. Here's just some of the benefits offered to employees:
• Buy or sell up to 5 days’ holiday a year – so you can go on an extra-long break or earn some extra cash
• Critical illness insurance – to provide peace of mind
• Cycle to work scheme – to help you get to work the green way
• Our O2 Extras - our own discount site giving exclusive discounts from over 800 retailers
• Health assessment – to look after your wellbeing
• Learning fund – we’ll contribute to your learning from flying lessons to Zumba classes

Work / Life balance
Work/Life balance is also of huge importance to O2 and its employees. O2 knows life isn’t all about work, so they help employees enjoy the best of both worlds with a healthy work/life balance to ensure we don’t miss those special moments. O2 encourage their staff to take up all kinds of flexible working options, such as:
• Working from different locations if the role allows
• Full or part-time hours
• Paid maternity, paternity & adoption leave - 14 weeks full time pay for everyone at O2
• Paid time out for fostering and fertility treatment

Diversity & Inclusion
We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas and different strengths and perspectives to the party. Techies. Leaders. Bold thinkers. Supreme organisers. We’re on a journey together. So, we all have the same opportunities to grow, succeed and be more. Working with and learning from people from all walks of life makes every day an adventure.

Earlier this year we also introduced a transitioning toolkit for managers to support employees who are going through or considering starting a gender transition journey. You can read more on our transitioning toolkit here.

Just last month, during National Inclusion Week, we also announced that we had signed up to 'The Valuable 500', pledging our commitment to disability inclusion and strengthening O2’s pledge to become a leading inclusive employer.

Read more about Proud at O2, BAME, Women's Network and other support initiatives here.

If you're interesting in finding out more about O2, its employees, or if you're even considering a career with O2, then check out our Glassdoor page, and follow @O2Careers on Twitter.

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

viridis — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:48:32 GMT

Tried before, wasn't experienced enough apparently.
Disappointing tbh

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

jonsie — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:54:28 GMT

Worked there once and enjoyed it apart from Saturday mornings.

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:30:02 GMT

@viridis wrote:
Tried before, wasn't experienced enough apparently.
Disappointing tbh

Sad to hear this @viridis

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

Cleoriff — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:32:17 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@viridis wrote:
Tried before, wasn't experienced enough apparently.
Disappointing tbh
Sad to hear this @viridis

Wasn't experienced enough???!! Bit of a bloody joke really!

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

jonsie — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:43:56 GMT

It's not exactly difficult learning o2's systems. I doubt this is the criteria now because half the staff know diddly squat

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

gmarkj — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 22:09:44 GMT

As proved by most people coming here after getting an incorrect/incomplete/idiotic answer from customer services!

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 06:18:05 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
It's not exactly difficult learning o2's systems. I doubt this is the criteria now because half the staff know diddly squat

Oh, Righto ... so, if the DWP shuv me towards looking for work ... I can rock up to any O2 place ... with or without CV in hand ... & ... I'd walk right into a job with perks

And you all know how I am with 'owt techie ... = ... totally a permanent numpty

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

jonsie — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:21:34 GMT

You will slot right in @Anonymous

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

pgn — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:04:11 GMT

Now there's a thought...

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

pgn — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:06:03 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
Worked there once and enjoyed it apart from Saturday mornings.

Monday morning's get me - and I don't work for O2!

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 11:24:35 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
You will slot right in @Anonymous

I'm taking this as a sincere compliment @jonsie

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 22:33:10 GMT

Buy and sell days off sounds fab!

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

jonsie — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 22:46:23 GMT

We used to do that at the bank @Anonymous

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 08:25:07 GMT

Behind closed doors or official @jonsie ?

Re: O2 is on Glassdoor

jonsie — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 08:57:15 GMT

No it was officially written into our contracts. We could buy a day off and also sell any unused holidays back to the bank.