 Remote
Employment Awards
Remote Worker Award Winners Announced Remote Employment (www.remoteemployment.com),
the website for flexible and home-based jobs today announced the winners
of the Remote Worker Awards 2009 in association with BT Business.
The Remote Worker Awards recognise the achievements of people who work
from home or remotely and their employers. Remote and home working can
provide benefits not available to traditional place-of-work employment.
Hundreds of entries were received for the awards and the judges selected
the winners based on the individuals or companies that demonstrated how
remote working had created the greatest positive impact on their work
life. Mick Hegarty, strategy and commercial director, BT Business said:
"It is estimated that 3.5m people work from home and BT Business research
shows that 55 per cent of the UK's employees are working from home more
often than they did before in the current climate.
These awards highlight some of the best examples of how remote workers
are helping the environment, increasing business productivity and improving
quality of life. The commitment of these fantastic award winners coupled
with technology that enables flexible working means that even more people
can now work in this way and get more out of their working and home lives."
The categories and winners of the Remote Worker Awards 2009 are as follows:
The Remote Employer Award:
Cuddledry, Nether Stowey, Somerset. Cuddledry
manufactures and supplies towels and accessories for babies and children,
employing home-based personnel. It recognises that there are many people
no longer able to work full time in senior roles due to childcare commitments.
Cuddledry has used home working to the advantage of all, demonstrating
that home businesses can significantly exceed financial projections.
The Remote Worker Award:
Marieke Guy, Melksham, Wiltshire. Marieke works for UKOLN, the University
of Bath's centre of excellence in digital information management. Marieke
became UKOLN's remote worker champion in 2008 and also works to improve
working conditions for other remote workers.
The Home Worker Award:
Karen Reyburn, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire. Karen manages the European
division of a global organisation RAN ONE Europe entirely from home. Her
motivation for entering this award is to let others see that life doesn't
have to revolve around a job location.
Paula Wynne, Founder of Remote Employment and organiser of the Remote
Worker Awards, said: "It has been a highly rewarding experience to see
the wide variety of talented people who embrace flexible working and seeing
just how many companies champion it. It's been such a pleasure finding
these inventive pioneers."
The following companies and their employees were 'Highly Commended':
The Remote Employer Award:
Larry Miller, Chiswick London and David Lister, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Achieving Quality Leads thrives on home workers and remote workers. They
use remote working to bring quality people, who juggle a career and family
life, back into the work force. AQL were cited for this when they received
an award from the Prime Minister at Downing Street for the Best Small
UK Company for Bringing Women Back into Work!
The Home Worker Award:
Debbie Bird, Aylesbury, Bucks
Debbie has worked in the parenting and nursery industry for over five
years now editing parenting advice websites. As the current Editor
of Babyworld.co.uk her position has enabled her an insight
into how many new parents, especially women, manage the life changing
event of starting a family. Read about Debbie
The Home Worker Award:
Holly Seddon, Sevenoaks, Kent
Holly is Head of Community Management at FreshNetworks, and manages a
busy team almost entirely from home. Working for a progressive company
that uses social media and online tools to deliver results for clients,
also allows her to use those tools to work effectively and stay thoroughly
involved with the business.
The Remote Worker Award:
Adam Wood, Fakenham, Norfolk.
Adam works for Prior Analytics in Surrey, as a Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) Consultant and heads up the department which specialises
in providing customer service, support and helpdesk solutions. Adam prides
himself on being the person who drove the company to implement a remote
working policy.
More details on the winners can be found at www.remoteworkerawards.com.
For interviews please call 0844 800 8355 or email paula@remoteemployment.com.
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