People
The Union is committed to equality
Our people
Union Group is 100% employee owned, which allows our employees to be truly invested and accountable for the business. We believe a business that’s owned by its employees provides a place for equal investment, responsibility, and pride in the future of the business and gives people a sense of value and self-worth.
We are committed to supporting, inspiring and growing our people and here are some of the ways we do that.
Targeted recruitment to secure the best talent and represent Scotland's diversity.
Continuous Professional Development opportunities, including IPA certifications.
Annual staff satisfaction surveys to ensure our teams’ needs are met.
Union Academies designed to provide in-house training and industry insights.
Gender equality at all levels: 54% female senior team, 60% female Group Management Board.
Monthly 121’s and six monthly appraisals.
Flexible working: core office hours 10am-4pm with flexible hybrid and part-time hours available.
Mental Health action plan and trained Mental Health first aiders.
Contracts designed to provide stability, career progression, sick pay and pension.
Annual ZAG conference on non-conformity and change in the industry.
Opening doors
We're committed to giving everyone an opportunity to thrive in the creative industry and here are just some of the ways we help do this.
Unlocked
We’re a partner of John Doe’s internship programme, designed to invite people from all different backgrounds to experience the world of advertising.
Modern Apprenticeship Scheme
We are actively involved in the government Modern Apprenticeship Scheme.
Aspiring Creative Award
We work with the Marketing Society Scotland to build stronger relationships with colleges, universities and schools. The winner of the award gets a paid placement with Union.
Worldwide Partners
We are part of Worldwide Partners Inc. (WPI), a collective of agencies across the world. Which allows us to tap into trends and research from across the globe to enhance learning and opportunities.
WACL
WACL (Women in Advertising and Communications, Leadership) is a membership organisation whose purpose is to accelerate gender equality in the advertising and comms industries.
Day to make a difference
Everyone in the agency is given a day’s paid leave to do something of their choice to help a charity/organisation that has a focus on environmental or sustainability efforts in the local community.
Our initiatives
Our existing initiatives include:
A dedicated EDI team whose role it is to continuously improve our knowledge and processes across all things Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, throughout the agency, industry and beyond.
Making sure our standards expand to suppliers by continuing to require our supply chain partners to align their approach and policies to those of our own throughout the entire contract period.
Production of Accessibility guidelines that allows all our designs to be accessible for all.
Our future initiatives include:
Pay transparency:
We meet and exceed the real Living Wage and we aim to have pay transparency and equality.
We will action this with the steps laid out by the Pay Transparency Directive.
Our targets
