Our people

OUR ORGANISATION

EMPLOYER OF CHOICE

Attracting highly skilled individuals into our organisation and ensuring that our employees feel valued is of great importance to Evolve Housing. To achieve these goals, we have increased the range of benefits available to our employees. These benefits position us as an employer of choice.

FLEXIBLE WORKING To ensure our employees can achieve optimal wellbeing and a healthy balance in their lives, we promote flexible working. With the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic, our workforce has an increased need to work from home, which has been accommodated. In addition to working from home, 47% of our workforce leverage additional flexible working arrangements including a compressed working week with 9 day working fortnights, working parttime, taking flexi leave and purchasing additional annual leave.

PARENTAL LEAVE During the year, we revised our parental leave policy offering our primary carers 8 weeks of paid leave and secondary carers 2 weeks of paid leave. Since the policy was revised, many employees have been able to leverage these benefits upon the exciting event of the birth of their new children. We have thoroughly enjoyed being able to see our Evolve family grow and being able to financially assist our employees during this important life event.

SERVICE RECOGNITION Providing increased recognition of the service our employees give to Evolve Housing and in turn to our clients has been a focus for us this year. We introduced a service recognition program where recognition rewards are provided at 5 yearly service milestones. This program enables us to demonstrate our gratitude and appreciation for the continued efforts and commitment our employees make. A total of 26 employees were recognised for service, with 4 employees with tenure of 20 years, 5 employees with tenure of 15 years, 12 with tenure of 10 years and 5 being recognised for 5 years of service.

DIVERSITY

Evolve Housing promotes an inclusive culture where we respect and embrace diversity and the uniqueness of everyone. Cultural diversity is high within our workforce with employees coming from varied cultural backgrounds and speaking 24 different languages.

Our workforce represents a cross-section of ages and differing preferences in sexual orientation. We actively support gender equality with 54% of our management roles being female, including 2 female employees within our Executive team. In addition, our Board has 3 female Directors.

As a way of celebrating our diversity amongst the team we recognised many key events during the year including International Women’s Day, NAIDOC Week, World Refugee Day and Chinese New Year.

PERFORMANCE

100% of employees set performance goals aligned to our Strategic Business Plan to ensure our organisation as a whole is working toward achieving its strategic outcomes. A succession planning framework was implemented to evaluate employee potential for career progression and to align development needs for career growth. In addition, the framework ensures the organisation has all critical roles filled by suitably skilled incumbents and therefore ensuring the continuity of our services to our clients.