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AJ Bell

One of the top-performing workplaces in the world

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Manchester

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90,000

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Manchester

90,000

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Challenge

As one of the UK’s fastest-growing investment companies, AJ Bell needed an office that could accelerate their next wave of growth.

Insight

Working alongside change champions within the organisation, we helped AJ Bell determine what a successful workplace experience looks like.

Solution

Ranking as one of the top-performing workplaces in the world, the new office is fit for purpose and provides an exceptional employee experience.

People

As one of the UK’s fastest-growing investment companies, AJ Bell needed an office that could accelerate their next wave of growth.

Place

Working alongside change champions within the organisation, we helped AJ Bell determine what a successful workplace experience looks like.

Planet

Ranking as one of the top-performing workplaces in the world, the new office is fit for purpose and provides an exceptional employee experience.
As one of the UK’s fastest-growing investment companies, AJ Bell needed an office that could accelerate their next wave of growth.
Working alongside change champions within the organisation, we helped AJ Bell determine what a successful workplace experience looks like.
Ranking as one of the top-performing workplaces in the world, the new office is fit for purpose and provides an exceptional employee experience.
People using a workbench in the AJ Bell Manchester office
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In partnership with AJ Bell, we designed and built an office that ranked among the top-performing workplaces in the world, helping them become one of the ‘Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For.'

Defining and driving change

As one of the UK’s fastest-growing investment companies, AJ Bell knew their environment was key to helping accelerate their next wave of growth. We were commissioned to understand how their relocation strategy would impact on their people and organisation, what their employees needed from their new workplace, and design and build a space that supported those needs.

The company’s commitment to their vision inspired, engaged and aligned people right across the business. In partnership with AJ Bell, we helped drive their successful transformation and create one of the world’s top-performing workplaces.

How do you become one of the top-performing workplaces in the world?

This level of success can only be achieved with a powerful vision, and the commitment and knowledge to realise it. The leaders in the business defined what they wanted at a strategic level, whilst we interpreted their vision on a human level, to understand how we could transform the company experience for everybody working there.

Communication is key

We helped AJ Bell navigate towards their goals by communicating with their staff and working closely with change champions within the company to embed our methodology. From start to finish, people were supported through the transformation and became part of the journey.

Everything has a purpose

Every element of our design has a reason for being. We used design to bring their company values to life –  physically aligning leadership, employees and customers through the heart of the building.  

A world-class workplace for people

Time and time again, we see the best results come from clarity and alignment between and within project teams. Working with AJ Bell was no different.  

Everything developed in EQ4 has been born out of TSK’s experience and out of what our people wanted. I’m delighted with our new headquarters.

- Andy Bell, Chief Executive, AJ Bell

People using the collaborative space in the AJ Bell Manchester office
People using the social space in the AJ Bell Manchester office

AJ Bell wanted to take their company to the next level. Together, we achieved it – from initial consultation to design and build. Now, each and every employee knows they have the potential to add even more value to a world-class organisation.

For AJ Bell, it means offering a flexible environment in which to work, meet and collaborate. It means staff having access to a state-of-the-art gym, a training and seminar suite, an e-learning zone, an amphitheatre and a rooftop terrace and bar. But more than anything, by engaging people all the way through, we created a company-aligned and top-performing workplace for achieving their targets.

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