Our London benefits include:
Health and wellbeing
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus one day for each year of service, up to a maximum 30 days.
- Bupa health insurance for you, with subsidised cover for your family.
- Bupa dental care, with five options for cover, and no restriction on your choice of dentist.
- Free access to NHS doctors 24/7, via the Babylon app.
- Eyecare vouchers, for free check-ups and a £55 discount on glasses.
- Flu vaccinations available during the winter.
- Trained mental-health first aiders, for if you need to talk with someone in confidence.
- Free and impartial advice for personal or professional matters, in partnership with the non-profit advertising and media industry specialist NABS.
- Employee assistance programme (EAP), through LifeWorks.
- Teach yourself meditation and mindfulness, with a 50% subsidy for the popular app Headspace.
- Massages available in the office each week.
- Subsidised gym membership.
- On-site fitness studio, with various classes.
- Cycle-to-work scheme, with tax-free purchases for bikes and accessories.
- Adjustable desks for those who prefer to alternate between sitting and standing.
- Free evening meal if you need to work to 7:30pm or later.
Learning and development
- AKQA Insight e-learning platform, which gathers thinking and ideas from all of our studios globally, alongside a guest-speaker event series.
- Regular personal development workshops, covering a wide range of topics.
- A four-module management training programme, to develop general line-management skills.
- A six-module progression programme, to develop leadership skills, aimed at the next generation of senior leaders.
- Bespoke departmental and individual training opportunities, for everyone.
Lifestyle choices
- Enjoy your birthday with a further day off.
- Long-service awards, with a payment of £500 at five years’ service, and £1,000 at ten years’ service.
- Finish early on Fridays during the summer.
- Flexible working arrangements once you’ve been employed continuously for 26 weeks.
- Recruitment referral scheme, with a £2,000 payment if you refer someone who becomes permanently employed by AKQA.
- Fresh fruit and drinks each day, plus vending machines with subsidised snacks.
- Themed, buffet breakfasts on the first Friday of each month, served from 8am.
- Subsidised nail appointments available each fortnight.
- Green Committee, which works with the Green Team from our neighbour Save the Children, to come up with new green ideas and initiatives.
- Numerous AKQA staff discounts for food, beauty, grooming, travel and retail, through our partnership with clients and local businesses, plus further discounts via our wider group WPP.
Saving and protection
- Company pension, with AKQA contributing six percent while you contribute four percent or more.
- Life assurance, at four times’ your annual salary.
- Income protection support.
- Industry-leading maternity benefits, available after six months of service, including enhanced maternity pay. Mothers who’ve been employed for more than five years can take up to six months leave on full pay, to care for new-borns or adopted children, with an optional three further months at half pay.
- New fathers can take two weeks’ paternity leave at full pay, with enhanced paternity pay options.
- Enhanced shared parental leave options: enhanced paternity pay for our new fathers, to match the enhanced maternity pay available to women. We understand it is important for fathers to take time with their partner during the first year of the newborns’ birth, and this enhanced policy is designed to make this possible
- Periodic drop-in clinics for mortgage advice, for free consultations with an independent broker.
- Interest-free loans for travel season tickets.