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This impact report reflects on our recertification, what we have achieved, and provides a glimpse into where we head next.

OUR FULL IMPACT REPORT

Purpose

For our People
For our Communities
For the Planet

We are a Certified B Corporation ™

Balancing Purpose and Profit.

In 2019, ADLIB joined a growing global community of B Corps. From the outset, this was our starting point to evolve, a framework that would sharpen our focus and hold us accountable to building a business that truly balanced profit and purpose.

Our starting point was a score of 82.8. In 2020 ADLIB became the world’s first 100% employee-owned B Corp recruitment business globally.

In 2023 we received a recertification score of 130.3. The highest ranking recruitment company, globally. An immensely proud moment in ADLIB history.

FOR OUR PEOPLE

  • 68.3 ADLIB Recertification score 2023. 45.4 Average Best in the World 2022 (Company size 11 – 50). Since our initial certification, we have invested heavily into our team through numerous initiatives to build a stakeholder model that is fit for the long term.
  • Employee ownership. 100% of shares were transferred in 2020. An infinite business model with infinite possibilities on a personal and commercial basis.
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave. 6 months full pay for the primary caregiver, 1 month full pay for the secondary caregiver.
  • Employee wellbeing. Monthly Heka budget & SimplyHealth plan for all.
  • Ethical pension. No oil, gas and tobacco investments here.
  • Tax free bonuses. 100% of ADLIB employees were paid tax free bonuses in 2022.
  • Employee Voice. Trust Board and Employee Council with representation across the entire company. We operate with complete transparency, allowing for commercial education and understanding from the ground up, whilst encouraging input and feedback.
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Investment into leadership development.
  • Where do we go next? Our D,E&I leadership investment will result in the rollout of an inclusion awareness programme across the entire business by early 2024. We will maintain our healthy worker score and start the process of building an inclusive leadership team as we work through the next phase of our employee ownership model.

FOR OUR COMMUNITIES

  • For ADLIB, ‘community’ covers a lot of ground. We support regional ecosystems, provide insight and advocate for international communities that are fighting for equality. The team has built their own communities from the ground up, we’ve supported community-based projects that improve people’s lives, and play an active role within the B Corp community.
  • Sophie founded the MotherBoard Movement. 28 signatories, 960+ members, 12 events, 1 x Impact report. MotherBoard is an impact-based business model, designed to support career progression of females and mums and to support employers in retaining females and mums in the UK technology sector. Our profit will contribute towards the sponsorship and development of UK female refugees into long term employment within the tech industry.
  • Mike, our SW Head of Tech, has co-founded and helped to grow the ‘GreenTech South West’ community. 2000+ members, 36 events.
  • Alex, our Head of Data has co-founded the ‘Tech Ethics’ meetup group. 750+ members, 11 events. ‘Tech Ethics’ considers the benefits of AI and emerging technologies, but also the challenges and ethical concerns of the social implication and potential unintended consequences these technologies can have on our society.
  • Charitable donations in 2022. £13,084.
  • Volunteering. 3 fully paid days annually per employee.
  • Grassroots Activation Programme. £6.8k donated, 1-1 young person mentorship, helping them secure their first work placement and setting them up for the long term.
  • Nick, our CEO is a B Corp Ambassador, supporting fellow B2B service providers on all things B Corp. 20+ aspiring B Corps met with in 2022.
  • Gender balance. All company: 44% female, 2% non-binary, 54% male. Management: 45% female, 55% male.
  • We are part of the Better Business Act, along with over 2000 UK businesses. The Better Business Act is fighting for a cleaner, greener, fairer future for all.
  • Where do we go next? Employee ownership creates an infinite business model. We will strive to better our gender balance at all levels and build an inclusive board of directors as we enter ADLIB’s next chapter. Furthermore, our MotherBoard Charter will deliver its annual impact report, highlighting the achievements of its Charter members and increasingly use the data provided to support organisations fighting for legislative change at the government level.

FOR OUR PLANET

  • As a B2B service provider, we store an increasing amount of customer and candidate data. Given our learnings from within the Green Tech South West community, we are increasingly aware that the life cycle of storing, processing, and transmitting digital information is an area that we need to pay significant attention to.
  • Beyond planting trees. We offset our annual emissions via a carefully selected range of projects within developing countries, that have strong additional benefits beyond reducing carbon emissions. These include health benefits, saving low-income families money and reducing deforestation in a village in Africa. All of the projects are certified to the Gold Standard and include efficient household cooking stoves and clean drinking water projects.
  • 2022 Carbon Reporting. 16.2+ tonnes offset.
  • E-waste. Our tech is recycled and disposed of responsibly.
  • Where do we go next? The introduction of a data storage strategy across our CRM, website and internal documents, email management systems to significantly reduce our storage footprint.

When designing this website, keeping carbon emissions to a minimum has been a constant consideration along the way, for every page. We kept page weight to a minimum, opted for lean functional simplicity rather than fancy polluting features.