Listen: For Ogi, the Welsh broadband and internet service provider, a comprehensive benefits suite is a key tool in its talent attraction strategy. In this episode of the Employee Benefits podcast, Lisa Hand, people experience director, explains how having a benefits package that is truly flexible to meet the needs of a diverse workforce is vital when competing in a tight market.
The organisation operates a flexible benefits package with a cash pot for each employee to ensure they have maximum choice of perks that suit their own needs and lifestyles. The package has been curated to ensure that the long-term and short-term financial wellbeing of employees is supported, with benefits such as life insurance and critical illness insurance. In addition and in response to the cost-of-living crisis, the employer offered a £1,200 payment to 70% of it’s workforce in the last quarter of 2022.
At a glance
Ogi is Wales’s alternative network provider (altnet), which brings full fibre broadband to homes and businesses across south Wales. The business is an infrastructure investor, and an internet service provider (ISP).
Ogi employs highly skilled teams across engineering, planning, marketing, IT and professional services. It has 184 employees with an average age of 39. The organisation is just 2 and a half years old, and so the average length of service is one and half years.
Primary business objectives that impact on benefits for the coming year:
Continuing the rollout of full fibre broadband, the business has set ambitious targets for the year. The need to ensure staff have the skills and time to do the job are key. Ogi puts the health and wellbeing of its people first, and this, in turn, has helped the people experience team curate a package of benefits that support that agenda, while remaining agile to respond to staff needs.
Career history
Lisa Hand, people experience director, joined Ogi in 2020. Her previous positions include senior HR manager, EMEA and APAC at Sigma Systems; HR business partner and HR advisor at Newport City Homes; HR coordinator and HR graduate at Marriott Hotels; and HR assistant at the Welsh Ambulance Service.
Hand is proud of being part of Ogi, and “changing the game in terms of the digital landscape in Wales and creating a lasting legacy for communities and individuals”.
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