The Sunday Times Best Places to Work has been published in partnership with WorkL, with Mesh receiving recognition as one of the top small organisations to work for in 2025.

This national survey highlights the Best Places to Work in seven categories and provides valuable insight into what makes a good workplace.

To achieve recognition, each organisation had to score highly in six areas – reward and recognition, instilling pride, information sharing, empowerment, wellbeing and job satisfaction.

Zoe Thomas, Editor of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work:
 
"The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list is the UK’s biggest survey of employee engagement. Spanning a raft of sectors and located throughout the UK, the organisations in this year’s list range from innovative start-ups with a handful of employees to big multinational corporations staffed by thousands. These organisations know that happy employees are the superpower helping them thrive.”

Lord Mark Price, Founder of WorkL:

“Many congratulations to those featured in the 2025 Sunday Times Best Places to Work list. The recognised organisations lead the way in employee experience and will now benefit from improved retention and recruitment for the year ahead.”

Doug Johnson, Founding Director of Mesh:

“We are thrilled that Mesh has received this national recognition.

Everyone has their own ideas about why the culture of an organisation matters. For me, a positive culture is a catalyst, amplifying the abilities of individual team members. If you feel happy and valued at work and can be yourself, you’re far more likely to explore beyond your comfort zone, ask questions, be proactive, and accelerate your learning. You will also be motivated to go that extra mile for your customers, knowing you’ll be appreciated and rewarded in turn.

This is the ethos and vision behind everything we do at Mesh whilst working hard to improve the sustainability of the built environment as part of the drive to netzero.”

Some of our employee initiatives include:

• A standardised performance metric – to balance productivity with salary to enable us to recognise great work without bureaucratic delays.
• Flexible working – we want everyone in the business to have a healthy balance of life and work. As long as the work is done, our teams can work to their own timetable.
• Remote, hybrid or in-person working – we have an office in Surrey, but our teams live all over the country.
• Annual leave – in addition to a generous holiday entitlement that exceeds the statutory minimum, everyone has the opportunity to earn additional leave for annual service.
• Team building – every couple of months we bring the team together for different outings and activities – from go-karting and clay pigeon shooting to rounders in the park.
• Parental leave – we offer four months of fully paid leave for either parent, which in addition to our regular keeping in touch days and flexible working, help to make our staff feel supported as much as possible.
• Monthly challenges – we challenge the team to undertake a variety of light-hearted activities through the year with some healthy competition – from steps walked to random acts of kindness and spending time in nature.
• Spot bonuses – we recognise exceptional performance by rewarding individual team members with a spot bonus of £1,000.