Listen: Cybersecurity firm Egress has created a benefits package that offers support for its employees in many different areas of their working lives. In this episode of the Employee Benefits podcast, Laura Probert, chief people officer, details how the package is structured into key areas including work-life balance; mental, physical and financial wellbeing, and the recognition of the long service that employees have contributed to the business.
One of the benefits in which this support is most evident is its flexible-working initiative, Eflex. The scheme offers Egress employees various options through which they can take additional leave on top of their usual holiday allowance, ranging from an hour off a week, to swapping a bank holiday with annual leave.
In the podcast, Probert discusses why this initiative is a key component of Egress’ benefits proposition that aims to offer diverse support for its workforce.
At a glance
Egress is a cloud email security platform that continuously assesses human risk and dynamically adapts policy controls to prepare customers to defend against advanced phishing attacks and outbound data breaches before they happen.
The job roles are varied from sales to software engineers, marketing to threat intelligence, and everything in between.
Egress celebrates its 16th birthday this year with 322 employees and offices in London, Sheffield, Cheltenham, New York, Boston, and Toronto.
The average age of staff is 32.6 years old and the average length of service is 3.46 years.
Primary business objectives that impact on benefits
- To grow the organisation’s revenue by 30% per annum and, therefore, expand the workforce at a sustainable rate. With this growth, Egress hopes to have more bargaining power with benefits providers and aims to offer competitive benefits options in personalised packages that are meaningful to employees.
Career history
Laura Probert is chief people officer at Egress and is responsible for the organisation’s global people strategy. Before joining Egress, Probert held senior HR positions in technology, advertising, retail, and entertainment, at organisations that include Adobe, Bwin Sports and Xaxis, a global agency within GroupM and WPP.
At Egress, Probert’s focus is on attracting, retaining and developing world-class talent which includes creating a high-performing culture that rewards and recognises its people, provides flexibility, training and career development and support for mental and physical wellbeing.
Probert is passionate about creating successful people development strategies and building agile, high performing, diverse teams with high levels of engagement.