Mott MacDonald has been awarded 8th place in the prestigious Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For Survey, 2010. It is the third consecutive year that the consultancy has made it into the top 10. Mott MacDonald is the only professional services firm of its kind to make it to this tier.

Peter Wickens, Mott MacDonald’s chairman said, “We are very proud and delighted to continue to feature among Britain’s top companies. In an increasingly competitive environment and with more great companies competing for places, it makes our achievement even more significant. Our employees make Mott MacDonald a special place and we aim to do our utmost to provide a stimulating and rewarding environment for working and learning. As such, findings from this exercise are used to inform positive changes to our employee benefits offerings, which helps us to retain our talented professionals.”

The Best Companies survey is an established barometer of workplace opinion based on the responses of over 230,000 employees across 964 companies, and examines the key components of a happy, engaged and successful workplace. It also evaluates each organisation’s key statistics, processes and policies. The process involved employee participation in the survey as well as completion of an organisation questionnaire.

This top ranking for Mott MacDonald follows news that the organisation has achieved, for the second year running, Best Companies Two Star Accreditation status for 2010 which recognises the company as having outstanding workplace engagement practices, including exceptional motivation, inspiration and staff retention levels.

Mott MacDonald was also ranked:

• 1st for makes a difference to the world we live in
• 1st for making an effort to protect the environment

The Awards were announced at a gala celebration held at Battersea Evolution, London on 25th February 2010. The results were published in The Sunday Times on 7th March.

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