Every year, everyone in our team gets to nominate a charity for Platypus to donate £1,000 to. They can also split the donation between two charities. We do this as part of our commitment to the charity sector, and also as a benefit for the team who work hard for
At Platypus, we want to be as fair as possible when recruiting new team members. We have written previously about our anonymous recruitment process in our efforts to remove some of the bias from our hiring. We recently met with other agencies working in the charity sector to share ideas
What are values? Values for your place of work are the guiding principles that are most important to you and help you make decisions about the way that you work. Say an organisation had a value that was ‘The client comes first’. In theory, that means staff should make decisions
In our workshop with JMB Consulting last year, we identified lots of ways we could be a more anti-racist agency. One of those ways was influencing the charities and other agencies we know and work with to be more anti-racist and to pool all our shared learning on how we’ve
Like so many others, everyone at Platypus was shocked and saddened by the death of Sarah Everard. It sparked a difficult but important conversation about women’s safety in our weekly meeting. It was an eye opener for me on what is clearly a universal experience for women. One small positive
In May of this year (2021) Google will roll out an update to their algorithm that will include a new ranking factor called Core Web Vitals. Google regularly adjusts their algorithm, sometimes with minor changes and other times for broad core updates. The Core Web Vitals update will be a