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A podcast where security meets sparkle. Taking a look at all matters security and cleaning with Adept Corporate Services. Insightful and enlightening chat, entertaining guests and everything in between.
Anyway, we'll start. How are you, mate?
Speaker 2:Good. Alex, you?
Speaker 1:Splendid, mate. Love podcasting.
Speaker 2:Love podcasting. We've got some victims over here as well.
Speaker 1:We have indeed contestant number one. What's your name? Where did he
Speaker 2:come from?
Speaker 3:Is that
Speaker 4:a blind
Speaker 3:date frober? That is. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's a blind date Alright.
Speaker 3:But like not a lot of people would get that
Speaker 2:record. Victoria?
Speaker 1:Morning.
Speaker 2:Morning. And
Speaker 1:we've got young Lara as well.
Speaker 4:Hello.
Speaker 1:So, we are introducing new people from the office and new roles into the office as well. So, for as long as I can remember, we never had our own dedicated HR department. It was always Emily as a split resource from Allied, split into about 8,000,000 different pieces. And now we have you two fine people.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 1:So how long have you you guys been with the business? To give the audience a bit of context.
Speaker 3:I started early June
Speaker 4:and then... I was mid July,
Speaker 2:I think.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Three weeks later. Because my first task was to
Speaker 2:find On
Speaker 1:board some else.
Speaker 3:Find a Lara. Yeah. Help.
Speaker 1:So role. Job title.
Speaker 3:HR generalist.
Speaker 1:And Lara, you are our...
Speaker 4:HR apprentice.
Speaker 1:HR apprentice. What is a HR apprentice?
Speaker 4:I just don't really know.
Speaker 1:She's coming to work and just...
Speaker 2:Yeah. Just sitting there
Speaker 3:and just saying I don't really know.
Speaker 4:I don't know how I meant to explain that. Don't know.
Speaker 3:So you're doing an apprenticeship alongside... Yeah. But I'm... It's like learning on the job, basically.
Speaker 1:Would I be right in saying you are one of Adept's first ever apprentices?
Speaker 3:No. No? No. We've got one on the technical services team.
Speaker 1:Soft services first...
Speaker 2:Who was first through the door?
Speaker 3:Who was first through the door? Oh, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1:Well, we've got soft services and hard services. So soft services.
Speaker 3:You are the first soft services Oh, wow. Apprenticeship. Brilliant apprentice.
Speaker 1:There you go. So what does... Go on. Jump in. She do
Speaker 2:this to me all the time. You just... Honestly. My turn. First few months, how's it been?
Speaker 2:What'd you like? Good thing? Bad thing?
Speaker 1:Being brought into doing this? Yeah.
Speaker 3:Put myself forward for this. Oh, actually I didn't, being asked...
Speaker 2:So which is your good and bad thing?
Speaker 3:Yeah. I think the people is a good thing. I think...
Speaker 1:Small daughters.
Speaker 3:No. I think everyone's everyone is great. Everyone's been really welcoming and it's it's been a pleasure to work with everybody so far. Bad thing, I only work three days a week so trying to like shove everything in three days. But it's not bad because it's my choice.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah. Don't get me wrong. I'm off more days than I'm in but it can be really busy and I'm trying to squeeze in.
Speaker 2:But you've got a busy whole life. It's not as if you're off and you're doing nothing at home.
Speaker 3:Oh, no. No. No. No. It's not.
Speaker 3:No. Yeah. Two kids keeping me busy?
Speaker 1:Absolutely. So...
Speaker 4:Yeah. I'm I'm the same. I think the people are probably the best thing about it. Like, I really like everyone in the office. Everyone's really friendly.
Speaker 4:And the bad thing, I don't really know. Sometimes the trains on the way home are a bit
Speaker 3:of a nightmare. Oh.
Speaker 2:It's not
Speaker 1:getting out of Manchester.
Speaker 2:No negatives in the office. Great. Love it. Took me two
Speaker 1:and a half hours to get home yesterday.
Speaker 3:You just need to move to Manchester.
Speaker 4:Yeah. That's on you.
Speaker 1:Might as well. Might as well at this stage. So what does a day to day in HR look like?
Speaker 3:Very, very varied. Very varied.
Speaker 1:I can imagine.
Speaker 3:So... We've
Speaker 1:been super... Obviously, we can't go into details but we've been we've been keeping you busy.
Speaker 2:Oh, you have. We've asked for four weeks.
Speaker 1:But I suppose, would... So now you've been in a couple months now. For people out on sites and clients and people like that, what would your remit be?
Speaker 3:So HR, it is very broad and it's not necessarily what people think we do. So it's just basically, it's the... If you think about the employee life cycle. So, you know, recruitment, onboarding, so that's contracts, you know, payroll, god, policies, culture, you know, making sure that everybody actually enjoys working for Adept. And then, you know, if things go wrong along the way, supporting with that.
Speaker 3:Performance, training, compliance, employment law, everything in between. And then off boarding at the end, you know, if somebody unfortunately decides to leave us. Making sure that's a good experience as well because we want that from start to So...
Speaker 2:I mean, one big thing you miss miss there was the big support I had on boarding all the latest contract that we've just onboarded the team over at Berryville Gate. He was both heavily involved with that and got involved on-site, was nice. It was refreshing having that this time than when we onboarded Brentwood and we didn't have that kind of support there. I think this has made that a lot easier having used it around.
Speaker 3:Yeah. It was good for us as well because we got to go out and meet people and you know, it's nice to put a face to the name as well. Suppose that's what this is for. Rather than You know, of emailing HR and then you don't actually know who you're speaking So...
Speaker 1:Correct. Yeah. I've been saying for for years it'd be good when we have a big mobilisation to have HR there as well as a a reassurance more than anything because a lot of people think that, well, they have contrasting views on HR. Mhmm. They don't actually know what they're there for.
Speaker 4:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:What are you there for? Who are you there to help?
Speaker 3:Everybody. I suppose that's the main thing, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. So I think on paper we we work for the company, obviously.
Speaker 3:They're our employer. But I think the misconception around HR is that we are on the side of the company if something happens. We're not. We're on the side of the law. You know, we're there to make sure that anything that's being dealt with, whether that's could be anything, you know, contract changes, employee relations issues, anything, that, you know, we are ensuring everybody is treated fairly, consistently, and we're there to provide advice.
Speaker 3:So in an employee relations case, we wouldn't manage it. A manager would be assigned to manage it, as you know. But we're then there that impartial person in the background that is given the advice on, you know, make sure you've a full investigation. Have you thought about this? You know, because it's it's easy to kind of read something and jump to a conclusion or presume, you know, the outcome.
Speaker 3:But, you know, that's not how it works and we're there to make sure that whatever the outcome is, it's been done properly and, you know, in line with employment laws.
Speaker 1:It brings a good balance because we've had a couple of cases recently that have come to us. And I won't go into details obviously, but clients have brought stuff to us and then you've been a good voice of reason to go for it to give Danny, Jordy, Paul, whoever the confidence to push back and say, actually, that's a bit unreasonable. Is that actually as black and white as what you're saying? So it's good that you're there to safeguard employees as well from potential unfair dismissal and...
Speaker 3:100%. Yeah. Yeah. Because like, you know, I've been in operations myself. Like, so I know that like, you know, one of the first things that you guys have to think about is the client relationship, know, because ultimately, you know, we're built on client relationships.
Speaker 2:It's the people pleaser here.
Speaker 3:Apart from you, yeah. But you know and it's easy if a client comes and says you know request something to be like okay yeah but actually you know it's having that confidence to be able to say we need to think about everybody in this scenario you know and which I know you guys do anyway but, know, just as an example, to have that impartial voice.
Speaker 1:Question for you both, I'll ask you first Lara, what got you interested in a career in HR?
Speaker 4:My cousin originally. My cousin Naomi works in HR. They live in Cornwall. And she was up last Easter. And then...
Speaker 4:I don't know. We were all just chatting around the table. I think it was Easter Sunday, she was just talking about a job, it sounded really interesting. And she said it kind of... She thinks it suits my skill sets, she can imagine me...
Speaker 4:Do you know what I mean? She was just offering a bit of advice. She really enjoys it. And, yeah, from then on, I kind of... It was always in the back of my mind, but then I didn't kind of look into it until, like, earlier on this year, I'd say.
Speaker 4:And then I end up here, obviously.
Speaker 1:And now you start college on Monday?
Speaker 4:Yeah. Monday.
Speaker 3:And is it all you dreamt of and more so Is it what you said it would be? Well, is it like what she
Speaker 4:said or...
Speaker 3:Have you kind of gone, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:No. Yeah. I'm enjoying it
Speaker 3:to be fair. Yeah. It's everything I dreamt You know what I mean. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think jobs are are are defined by the people you work with, the people you're surrounded by. Yeah. And I think from when I joined Adept, I think it was... I'm just trying to think of the old office at ABC. There were maybe seven people in there and we were talking about desks that we're gonna need going forward.
Speaker 1:And I think me and Nick yesterday got to 25 desks we'd need if everyone was in. It's like the office has gone threefold.
Speaker 3:And that's some people hot desking as well.
Speaker 1:That is people hot desking as well. So the the... I love your office because you guys, for context, operations are in one side of the building, support services are in the other side. So Taylor, Anna, Louise, Theo Last. Theo You guys.
Speaker 1:Tony. So the the vibe is usually vibing in in your section. You are usually singing away at some music...
Speaker 4:I love that radio. You should hear it on a Friday. Turn it right up.
Speaker 3:Hey, there's nothing stopping me turning it up
Speaker 4:on a...... Sing along. Taylor doesn't like it too loud though. Me and Anna on a Friday are genuinely...
Speaker 1:Karaoke. Yeah. Stars in their eyes.
Speaker 4:And then I found out apparently you can connect your phone to the radio as well. So I'm gonna do that
Speaker 2:tomorrow. Really?
Speaker 4:I think. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay. What music would you put on if you could put your own Spotify on there?
Speaker 4:Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I don't really have like a particular...
Speaker 3:What's your favorite song? Sorry.
Speaker 4:Do you what? That's an awful question. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Do what? Have a think because you and Anna asked me this in the last podcast and I gave Go by the Chemical Brothers, very top, you know, from Apex.
Speaker 3:I've not heard it. Can you sing it? No. Absolutely
Speaker 2:not. I mean, should have seen it on the overlay. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like it it did me dirty there. Thanks, Tyler. But no, my... I thought after, my favorite song is probably Life of Riley by the Lightning Seeds.
Speaker 3:I don't know that one either.
Speaker 2:I'm not singing it. Hummet? Nope. Whistle?
Speaker 1:Nope. You can overlay it if you want, Annabelle, on the edit. But no, I'm not singing it. Paul, favorite song?
Speaker 2:Robert and Prince Thieves, the film. Brian Adams, Everything I Do, Do It For You.
Speaker 3:Aw. I like that. So that was my grandma's song when she passed away. Really nice song. No, no.
Speaker 3:Good good memories. Good memories.
Speaker 2:That was our wedding song as well.
Speaker 1:Was it really? Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I kinda came up the aisle with that. It wasn't the old traditional wedding. It was that. And then that was the first dance as well. Love that.
Speaker 2:All romantic. Yeah. Got a penis and everything. That
Speaker 3:was the accent. The accent,
Speaker 4:my junior, are you there?
Speaker 1:Penis for the audience, someone who plays a piano.
Speaker 2:Hopefully, picture her a penis. Adept after dark.
Speaker 3:Adept after dark. Proud Mary. Tina Turner.
Speaker 1:Tina Turner.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Good song.
Speaker 4:And if
Speaker 3:the camera wasn't so close, I'd do the dance. Shame.
Speaker 1:Do it. We'll get in the car park.
Speaker 3:I can't because it'll just be... No. Just
Speaker 1:the waist.
Speaker 3:Just stand up, it'll be my waist. Okay.
Speaker 1:You've had a chance to swing now?
Speaker 4:I Like All My Life by the Beatles, but then it annoys me that I like that because Jamie Carrigo, that's his favorite song that I can't stand him.
Speaker 2:Yeah. But he's an Everton fan.
Speaker 4:No, he's not. He is.
Speaker 2:He was a childhood Everton fan, Evertonian.
Speaker 4:Doesn't count.... A
Speaker 2:girl, mate. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh, dear. Anyway,
Speaker 1:swinging back from favorite songs.
Speaker 3:Sorry. I took us off.
Speaker 1:No. It's fire. On tangent. Oh, I thought a tangent. We haven't done our in the binge yet.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. Ready I'm for So
Speaker 1:in the bin today, my friend. You can't use brown sauce, you can't see a car.
Speaker 2:Jamie Carragher for spit...
Speaker 4:I was gonna say Jamie Carragher.
Speaker 1:Jamie Carragher.
Speaker 3:We should go in the bin twice then.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Apple products
Speaker 3:at the moment.
Speaker 1:Apple products.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah. I've got a story. Go on. Because I did a 30 kilometer run on Monday and my AirPods died at two hours in.
Speaker 3:And then, my Apple Watch died so it didn't record.
Speaker 4:My run.
Speaker 1:And then, you put out on LinkedIn.
Speaker 3:Yes. And, you got a of love. A lot of love from people who told me how to add it manually. But, it still feels a bit like I cheated because it didn't get all my like splits and stuff.
Speaker 1:You did cheat.
Speaker 3:I didn't cheat.
Speaker 1:So when are you doing your marathon? October.
Speaker 2:October 25. Yeah. 26 miles is it a marathon?
Speaker 3:42.2 kilometers. I don't
Speaker 1:think... One and a Yeah. I think you can...
Speaker 3:No. Well, I agree. I mean, we
Speaker 2:we know that. Mean, where are you on the steps? You left, mate.
Speaker 1:You're I'm terrible at the minute.
Speaker 2:I'm about 200,000. Geordie's overtaken you.
Speaker 1:So I keep When's the last time he looked?
Speaker 3:Yesterday. Yeah. No, he's not.
Speaker 2:Okay. I
Speaker 1:keep on Temporarily. Letting my watch die.
Speaker 2:No, you see, I I have a habit of twenty eight days update it and then everyone goes, alright.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, sorry. Where are you?
Speaker 2:Yesterday was fourteenth. Nice.
Speaker 3:Oh, no. Not that one. On the head office one.
Speaker 2:Oh, no. I'm I'm with the team.
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know what I am on that one, but I'm second on the head office one.
Speaker 1:Behind Nick.
Speaker 3:Behind Nick who I am certain straps his watch to his dog because there's no way he's doing that... He goes to... He wakes up
Speaker 4:at five. Louise is telling us he wakes up really early in the morning and because he's dead his shoulder and he can't go to the gym, goes on like a really long walk every morning.
Speaker 3:Well, I need to give him my Apple
Speaker 2:Fun fact, Nick hates animals. Oh, so he doesn't have a dog? He has cats and... Oh, I love cats.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I'm really not a dog person.
Speaker 1:You're not.
Speaker 3:No. I feel like I'm gonna get some hate for that though.
Speaker 4:No cats so we can go in my bin actually. I don't like cats.
Speaker 3:I like cats.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Kick the cat.
Speaker 3:Don't kick a cat. I know you're gonna get some hate for that.
Speaker 2:Kick the cat.
Speaker 4:It's a bit much. That is
Speaker 1:a bit much. Is there
Speaker 2:a reason why my best mate, when he goes to Florida, doesn't ask me to look after his cat?
Speaker 4:Scare me.
Speaker 2:Because I will kick it.
Speaker 3:Scare you.
Speaker 4:I got not attacked, one like clawed me when I was about eight.
Speaker 1:Where? In face?
Speaker 4:No. In the arm. It was just on... I think it was like playing out and there was a cat and it went over and it like got down my arm. And ever since like, really scared actually if one approaches me, like, scared.
Speaker 1:Fair. My in the bin will be my son's birthday.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's harsh. I
Speaker 2:can't think.
Speaker 1:So let me let me expand. So his birthday is September 9. He's just turned four. So we have to wait another twelve months before he goes to school. Another twelve months of childcare fees.
Speaker 3:So I saw a post on this on some social media platform and it it gave you the actual average cost of your childcare for which month that your child was born. Yeah you got done.
Speaker 4:You got Yeah.
Speaker 2:Now
Speaker 3:understand To couple of extra grand.
Speaker 2:My parents probably hated me and my twin sister because there was two of us born on the September 1. That
Speaker 1:was our...
Speaker 4:Hairs of September.
Speaker 3:My brothers and my brother and sister are twins.
Speaker 2:My twin, yeah. Yeah. There's two of us.
Speaker 4:There's two of you.
Speaker 3:That's what was just thinking. A brother or a sister, sorry?
Speaker 2:Sister.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's not too bad.
Speaker 2:Too bad. Bright red hair. Oh. Blue eyes.
Speaker 3:You have to show us a picture.
Speaker 4:Do you look alike?
Speaker 2:Sarah. No. We're... Don't look alike, but I think she wouldn't mind me saying that we...
Speaker 1:Act alike?
Speaker 2:Not act... No. No. We're not. It just...
Speaker 2:It's it's... She
Speaker 3:might mind
Speaker 4:that. I don't
Speaker 1:think the world would be ready for...
Speaker 2:No. I think our connection's ridiculously strong.
Speaker 1:Do you have the thing where you'll you'll think something and then you'll ring a Yeah. Bell
Speaker 2:Yeah. Mean, it's
Speaker 1:telepathic. When she was
Speaker 2:pregnant with her first, I I actually was in the doctors for months because I thought I was... There was something wrong with her. Like, stomach was just in bits. Honestly, yeah, I
Speaker 3:was Really?
Speaker 2:Back forth back and forth with the doctors. And then I was at my mums, I remember, like, I I honestly... The family will confirm. I was... I thought it was a doctor put his finger on my backside to check my prostate and everything.
Speaker 2:God.
Speaker 1:Have you asked him though? Well, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. He was... Yeah. It was consensual.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. Know. Been
Speaker 2:on the podcast with Paul. And yeah, she she came to tell me that she was pregnant and that it instantly just stopped. And then at the time, Dave didn't drive and she... She did? So Dave's...
Speaker 2:Yeah. For context, that's my sister's husband. Okay. He didn't drive. And she'd said, would you would you effectively...
Speaker 2:When when I go into labor, you take us to the the doctors? And I got up this morning, this this one this one morning, I got up real... It was like 03:00 in the morning, whatever time. I mean, Adeptal confirmed it. And I woke Hannah up and I said, I was dressed and she's like, what are doing?
Speaker 2:I went, I think my sister's gonna ring me. And then literally literally phoned me there and then I went, I'm in labor.
Speaker 1:Spiracy and stuff.
Speaker 2:And but that but that is, strangely as that sounds, that is the only time I've ever felt that... When when she had Oliver, there was nothing. When she was pregnant with Amy and she had Amy, yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 1:That is weird.
Speaker 2:But we have had couple of things where I thought something rang and she's like, I was, you know.
Speaker 1:Weird. Talk twins. Nice.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 1:Steer it back to
Speaker 2:HR. Nice HR.
Speaker 1:So question, why do you want everything in writing?
Speaker 3:Why? Yes. Okay. So... Because you forget things if you, you know.
Speaker 3:People tell people things, which is fine, but then, you know, you might then have a slightly different account of it when you pass it on or, you know, people forget. Mhmm. So get it in writing, know, we've got it there as evidence. You know, if I've said to you, yep, well, you've asked, said, oh, I really wanna progress, I wanna go on a training course, and I've said yes. You know, you're gonna want that in writing so that you know, if I don't follow through, I can come back.
Speaker 3:You can come back to me and say, you said I could go on a training course. Or Paul said I was lazy. Right. We'll get that in writing so that we can tell Paula.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. It's interesting that. So I was once on a note taking training session, this is years ago, like eight of us, and the HR person read out a statement and told us all to make a note of what she was saying and there were like eight different versions of Yeah. What the person Wild. So, in your opinion, do people trust HR?
Speaker 3:What's your opinion? Do people trust HR?
Speaker 2:Don't trust you too.
Speaker 3:Don't trust us?...
Speaker 1:Scheming in the office.
Speaker 3:We are. We're plotting against you all.
Speaker 2:Numbers, mate.
Speaker 3:I don't know my number.
Speaker 1:Do you think people trust Adepting? Generally? I think there's a bit of...
Speaker 3:I think there's a misconception, definitely. And I have some statistics.
Speaker 1:Fire away.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh. So according to Investors and People's 2026 research report, the trust paradox. Thought I'd just put that source in there so no one thinks I've made this up. 93% of employees say trust is important at work, but only 42% say that they trust their employer to act in the employee's best interest. So it's right back to where we started isn't it?
Speaker 3:People think that HR are just on the side of the business. You know?
Speaker 2:It is the perception, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 100%. And I do think as well HR itself has come a very long way. Like you know, it's now more about people and culture than it is, you know, the old school mentality of HR was you only speak to HR when you're in trouble.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 3:You know, and that's it, you're gone. It's that pre existing. Or we can't tell HR that, I don't know, maybe I've got a medical issue or, you know, I need some adjustments or I'm going through perimenopause or whatever, know. There's that misconception that then you'll be treated differently. But it's not like that and I think that you know it is coming a long way and it's just trying to break down those barriers of we're really approachable, you're not going be treated any differently and if something happens or you do something wrong or you don't do something wrong and you're accused of doing something wrong, you know, we'll make sure that we get to the bottom of it fairly justly and the outcome is what the outcome should be.
Speaker 3:In line with, you know, employment law. And and yeah, hopefully we're breaking that down a little bit. I think that's something that Adepts do really well is that there is quite an open and honest conversation around specifically, you know, health and well-being. Mhmm. You know, that people can come forward and say, like, you know, I'm having this treatment or I've been diagnosed with this or something and know that they will not be treated differently.
Speaker 3:Mhmm. And that, you know, we'll do our best to to help those individuals. But we still naturally have those people who were too afraid to come forward and say something because they think they will be treated differently. Mhmm.
Speaker 1:It's a it's a nice segue that I'll come back to in a sec, but that definitely starts from the top culture wise. Definitely. That takes me back to Nick's post last year where he kind of outed himself as being neurodivergent and kind of listed the the stuff he struggled with. Yeah. And it was very, very inspiring.
Speaker 3:Well, look, I got this job and then the podcast episode came out about menopause.
Speaker 1:With Julie.
Speaker 3:Yeah. With Julie. And that was something I was diagnosed premature menopausal in January this year. And I'm not, you know, of the age that you usually think that that would happen. And that made me confidently come into the business and say, this is where I'm at with my health.
Speaker 3:And I didn't do that in my last job. You know? So I think it's have... It's things like this, you know, platforms like this as well where you can talk about stuff that not everyone's talking about or Yeah.
Speaker 2:Or well. I always tell people watch the pod... You wanna know what's going on within the business. People aren't walking on talking about it and watch the podcast. Yes.
Speaker 2:The podcast.
Speaker 1:So my segue to revert back is, I know it's in the pipeline and it's stuff we've been talking about, but we are looking at starting some sort of well-being network and forums where
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think the first one will hopefully be next month in line with World Menopause Month. And kind of off the back of that, we'll have like an appointed person who's assigned to be like a champion or a guardian or an ambassador, an Adept Ambassador for that particular ailment or or... Ailment. Is that the
Speaker 2:right word?
Speaker 3:No. But that's fine. No one's gonna get offended by that.
Speaker 1:We'll cut that out.
Speaker 2:You called me for that. You called for that.
Speaker 1:Called you for?
Speaker 2:Making up words. You've just done it.
Speaker 3:No. It's a made up word. It's just not bit of...
Speaker 2:What it says to me. Yeah. Is it
Speaker 1:a bit of... Is that of a generation?
Speaker 4:Yeah. Yeah. Cancel. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I get cancelled. Cancel away, guys. But no. So I mean, we're we're looking at different health conditions that we can then incorporate. So we'll, you know, we'll do maybe one on men's mental health.
Speaker 1:Maybe, you know, topical with with your story before, you know, we might look at prostate cancer because that's a big... Yeah. Yeah. It's one of the biggest killers of of men over a certain age in The UK. And we've thought a book
Speaker 2:about that. Yeah. So, yeah. Watch Our workforce is predominantly male.
Speaker 1:It is. It is. What is our average age, do we know? Oh. I put it
Speaker 2:on the spot here.
Speaker 3:No. We don't know. It's fine. No. Don't know.
Speaker 1:Cool.
Speaker 3:I don't know. But when we move on to our new system, we should be able to pull that data. Nice.
Speaker 1:So what, in your guys' opinions, needs fixing that?
Speaker 3:Needs fixing. Needs
Speaker 1:fixing. What I'm doing
Speaker 2:or what... Well, nothing's broken.
Speaker 1:What do? I like that. What could we do better? What could we introduce? Is there anything?
Speaker 3:I mean, there's... Look. How long is a piece of string? I don't think anything's broken by any... In any way, shape or form.
Speaker 3:I just think there are certain things that, know, there's new legislations coming out and there's processes that probably need updating. We're looking at updating the handbooks, the contracts, things like that. And then just different things that I'd like to focus on next year. So sort of recruitment.
Speaker 1:How we onboard people?
Speaker 3:Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So I'd like to introduce things like a welcome booklet for people joining the business. Obviously, not hard copy, we're going paperless.
Speaker 1:Or a video?
Speaker 3:Or a video, exactly. You know, something a little bit different. Because at the moment we send an email and it's got loads of information in it. And then, you know, you could lose it in your mailbox Mhmm. And everything else.
Speaker 3:So, you know, something a bit more...
Speaker 1:So for like inductions, I've said for as long as we've been doing this, we have the facility here to film an induction video. We... We're here every month. We could Yeah. Always update it when it needs updating.
Speaker 1:We've And got people that aren't camera shy anymore in the business. Mhmm. I... Me and you. Nick...
Speaker 3:Never camera shy.
Speaker 1:Paul is camera shy.
Speaker 4:Paul's camera
Speaker 2:shy. Yeah.
Speaker 1:He's camera shy. Okay. How many how many LinkedIn photos have you had taken in the last couple of months? And Imogen take about 20 photos of you.
Speaker 3:And then he's
Speaker 1:not on
Speaker 4:LinkedIn daily, did it?
Speaker 2:I I I asked Imogen for a pitch the other day and I think we just had too many meetings and forgot to go and ask her to take a... I had to go for a a meeting as well. So...
Speaker 3:Everybody needs a headshot. That's one thing.
Speaker 1:I need a new one. I need an updated one.
Speaker 3:Everybody needs a headshot. You've got to... Is that a permanent fictional?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I'm I'm canvassing opinion. So we had the... Like, the big systems meeting overview yesterday and Emily answered me for a couple of months and she said it was good. She liked it.
Speaker 1:You you haven't really given me your proper opinion. I think you hate it, secretly.
Speaker 2:Why would I I would just say that? Why would you say that? I've not said that at all.
Speaker 1:Because you put it in the bin on the last episode.
Speaker 2:Context of putting it in the bin, why did I do it?
Speaker 1:Because you didn't like it. I didn't say that. You did.
Speaker 2:I'll overlay that and see if I said it.
Speaker 1:You're tash, mate. Okay. Cool. In the bin. Wow.
Speaker 1:Okay. I'm just gonna go out and figure now.
Speaker 2:Just to upset me as you're
Speaker 1:Just to upset you, mate.
Speaker 2:It just it just it's that plain sight thing, mate. Why are you growing it in plain sight? What's going on? Okay.
Speaker 1:So moving moving on moving on from the the accusations, the allegations. Brilliant. So we are absolute weapon yet. See, I told you.
Speaker 3:Wow. I've never seen you without it.
Speaker 1:I think
Speaker 2:you'll find what I have always said to you is it's very brave.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 2:And you don't normally go down that route.
Speaker 1:It's on trend, isn't it?
Speaker 2:So I think it's......
Speaker 1:They're in.
Speaker 2:I think it's good that you're doing it. To the point that Nick's already said that you stole his idea because he's been wanting to do it for ages. Yeah. So that when he does it, you can't you say that you can't... You know, he'll say you copied him.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Can we like sort of get it so it's one of those ones that... No. Please. If you're
Speaker 4:gonna be like
Speaker 3:wanting to follow trends, just be one of these You
Speaker 2:do that and we'll fall out.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I'm not doing that. No. Why not? I could go really niche and kind of...
Speaker 2:Because it it looks good what he's doing.
Speaker 1:Go historical with a style.
Speaker 3:Why don't you get it? So it's going down here then like Hulk Hogan. Is that... Have I've done the right person? Kind of is.
Speaker 1:A little bit.
Speaker 3:On one side. There's a
Speaker 1:little bit. So, no. This is as long as it will... As long as it'll go. So...
Speaker 3:I like it... Stuck in it. I'm not a child. I know but it's like hair, isn't it? No.
Speaker 3:No. Don't know. I've never had one so I don't know.
Speaker 1:Diesel. You don't get it stuck in your eyes.
Speaker 3:It is... It's very short.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. Don't I don't tend to grow it too much.
Speaker 1:Mhmm. So, again, let us know in the comments what you think.
Speaker 2:No. Absolutely. Let us know in the comments.
Speaker 1:Do think Tasha or not? I think you said in the last if there were 10 people that said they didn't like it, I'd get rid of it.
Speaker 3:There's a number then. It's like one of those things, oh, so and so said if I get a hundred hundred thousand likes on this post, it'll do blah blah blah. 10 dislikes people
Speaker 1:and it's gone. Stick it in the employee server. That'll be going out soon, won't it?
Speaker 3:Yes, we do. That will be going out soon actually. And then we'll have some actual statistics to come back with on,
Speaker 1:usually get good uptake on the service.
Speaker 2:Mean, to see what Yeah.
Speaker 1:What opinions are. We've got a lot of new colleagues this year. Yeah. Well, close to 200 new colleagues that are joining the business this year.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's massive. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. That's good. It's really good. It's positive.
Speaker 1:Anything else you guys wanna touch on? That's all I've all I've got.
Speaker 3:No. Thanks for having us.
Speaker 1:How long are we there, Annabelle?
Speaker 3:Thirty two minutes.
Speaker 4:Thirty two minutes.
Speaker 3:Oh, god. There you go.
Speaker 1:It goes fast enough.
Speaker 3:It does go fast.
Speaker 2:Alright. We'll wrap up there then. So... Thank you very much.
Speaker 1:If anyone wants to get in touch with you guys at work, how's how's best for them to reach out? What's the email address?
Speaker 3:Email address. Vote for us. HR. Look into
Speaker 4:the camera. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Hr@adeptcorporateservices.co.uk.
Speaker 2:We need to drop we
Speaker 1:need to drop the corporate services. Yeah. We were...
Speaker 3:Yeah. I was typing it out.
Speaker 1:It's Well, we were having the business plan meeting yesterday and that was one of Rick's things. He was like, just drop corporate services. Just have Adept.
Speaker 3:Yes. Nobody calls it Adept Corporate Services anyway. What's corporate services?
Speaker 1:Services that are corporate.
Speaker 3:No, I get that.
Speaker 4:Talking a whole load of nonsense.
Speaker 3:Are Adept.
Speaker 1:We are. We are Adept. And on that cheering note, we'll wrap up there. So thank you for joining us guys.
Speaker 3:Thank you. Thanks for having us. Oh, jinx.
Speaker 2:Cheers, Alex.
Speaker 1:See you in
Speaker 2:the next.