{"id":8763,"date":"2021-03-15T14:53:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2021-03-15T14:53:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:53:38","slug":"taxassist-support-centre-receives-5-star-employer-status-for-third-year-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/taxassist-support-centre-receives-5-star-employer-status-for-third-year-running\/","title":{"rendered":"TaxAssist Support Centre receives 5-Star Employer status for third year running"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><strong>Employee satisfaction survey reveals staff have risen to the challenges posed by home working during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the third year running, above benchmark results compared to businesses of a similar size and industry, has led to TaxAssist Accountants being named as a \u20185 Star Employer\u2019, following completion of an anonymous Support Centre Staff survey by independent research agency WorkBuzz.<\/p>\n<p>Karl Sandall, Group Chief Executive Director, said: \u201cIn what has been the most unprecedented of years, we are incredibly proud that TaxAssist Accountants has once again received this award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 60 members of staff at the Support Centre have seamlessly adapted to working from home and have done a fantastic job during the pandemic, pulling out all the stops to maintain truly exceptional levels of support to our network of accountants and their clients. I really cannot praise them highly enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a pleasure to learn from the survey that 98% of staff are proud to work for TaxAssist and 96% would recommend the Support Centre as a great place to work. I hope this gives our franchise network reassurance that they are fully supported by a happy and engaged workforce who are committed and dedicated to helping their businesses thrive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always value feedback, and the results from this survey will help us to understand what matters most to our staff, so we can respond to their needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steven Frost, CEO of WorkBuzz, said: \u201cFor several years, we\u2019ve been helping leading organisations gather feedback from their employees, to improve employee engagement and reduce staff turnover. Through the WorkBuzz 5 Star Employer awards, we will now be able to recognise employers who are truly leading employee engagement to improve the working lives\u00a0of their people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee satisfaction survey reveals staff have risen to the challenges posed by home working during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the third year running, above benchmark results compared to businesses of a similar size and industry, has led to TaxAssist Accountants being named as a \u20185 Star Employer\u2019, following completion of an anonymous Support Centre Staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-taxassist-accountants","category-accountancy-and-finance-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/5-STAR-LOGO_2021.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}