Final evening noticed the reveal of this 12 months’s GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards UK, which returned to the Royal Establishment in London at the finish of the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit. The awards had been generously sponsored by Amiqus, Playground Video games, IO Interactive, Video games London and Particular Impact.
The awards are issued based mostly on the suggestions of every firm’s staff, collected by way of nameless survey, which make up 80% of every agency’s rating. The remaining 20% relies on submissions from every firm outlining their inner insurance policies. There are additionally a collection of particular awards, judged by the GamesIndustry.biz editorial crew, and the G into Gaming award introduced by Liz Prince MBE of Amiqus.
Whereas the final 12 months has continued to be marked by layoffs, closures and job losses, this 12 months’s submissions confirmed that the UK’s video games companies frequently striving to assist their workers, with staff highlighting the insurance policies, provisions and particular person crew members that made the business a greater place to work. Some classes had been extraordinarily shut, and confirmed the diploma to which provision for points akin to psychological well being, environmental sustainability and schooling and mentoring has change into commonplace in the UK video games business.
Under is the gallery exhibiting every of our winners at yesterday’s ceremony.
Thanks once more to our sponsors Amiqus, Playground Video games, IO Interactive, Video games London and Particular Impact. The Best Places to Work Awards will return in 2027; these wishing to sponsor or in any other case assist the awards ought to contact matt_butlin@gamesindustry.biz.