Employee Benefits · Employee Benefits/Brewers podcastListen: Brewers Decorator Centres ensures its benefits proposition is designed to support all employees in all areas of their lives. In this episode of the Employee Benefits podcast, Jane Clifford, people director, shares her views on how benefits should both help to make people’s everyday lives a little easier, while also providing support for extraordinary events, such as having a baby or dealing with a serious illness.
A key priority for Brewers is the wellbeing of its employees, and it has been focusing on financial and mental wellbeing recently. Clifford explains how the organisation sought to help employees through the cost-of-living crisis by making various avenues of support available to them. A focus for this year is to look at the mental health support it offers to ascertain if Brewers is doing enough and offering the right help for employees at the right time.
At a glance
Brewers is an independent decorator’s merchants which has been owned by the Brewers family since 1904. It sells paint and wallpaper across the country, and has an international wallpaper web business. Its typical job roles include sales advisor, driver, branch manager and warehouse operative.
It has 1,551 employees, and the average age is 45-years-old. The average length of services is eight years and a half years.
Primary business objectives that impact on benefits for the coming year
- A key business objective that will impact how effectively Brewers can communicate and share its benefits is to review the internal communication channel.
Career history
Jane Clifford joined Brewers in 2015 as people manager before becoming people director. Previously, Clifford held the role of head of HR for a construction business and a law firm.
“I’m proudest of the small achievements that have made an impact on someone’s life: giving someone a break to get their first job, increasing holiday entitlement, helping a colleague or manager through a difficult time,” she says. “Most recently at Brewers I am really pleased with our launch of our Together initiative, which is a relaunch of [our] equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) approach and for the first time involving a committee of colleagues to help shape how we take this forward.”
