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Founded in
1989
Headquarters
London
Employees
140
What they do
Independently-owned brand experience agency
In a nutshell
This award-winning agency creates transformational brand experiences for some of the most well-known UK brands.
Rufus Leonard achieves peak performance
Rufus Leonard is an independent brand experience agency with a heritage in digital and design. They are experts in brand optimization, service design and build, organizational engagement, and technology, with an impressive roster of clients including Lloyds Banking Group, British Gas, BBC, British Red Cross, Royal Mail, and Aviva, to name a few. The agency’s investment in their own people has always been a key focus and as one of The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies, they’re making a name for themselves as a great place to work.
The challenge
The hugely successful projects Rufus Leonard develops are based on knowing what makes their clients tick, so the agency knows full well how important it is to give its own people timely feedback. But the outdated system they were using wasn’t creating much value from reviews. Everyone saw them as a chore, with little benefit. “Before bob, we used traditional HR tools that were not user-friendly and not very engaging,” says Lucy Barker, Rufus Leonard’s Head of People.
Our solution
We’ve provided a centralized performance management system with a user-friendly review process and real-time engagement. Not only was Rufus Leonard able to tailor our platform to their specific needs, but our developers have adapted and upgraded review features so that as they evolve, bob evolves. We’ve provided a tool that doesn’t just make performance management effective, it makes it a lot more enjoyable, too. In Lucy’s words: “bob’s become a verb here, and I’ve already recommended it to several other companies.”
The results
Both managers and employees are now much more engaged with the
If our business can be in line with such a high quality company, that’s a good reason for us to feel proud.
Lucy BarkerHead of People
feedback and review process—even people who were initially skeptical about a new system.
Everyone from the CEO down has given very positive feedback on bob.
Managers have regained as much as 25% more valuable time – they were spending hours coordinating reviews with HR that they can now spend working with their people.
Managers are now confident that they have a reliable, up-to-date system for information and data, so instead of always coming to HR, they now go to bob.
Better communication and more timely feedback have lifted employee engagement.
Managers can quickly spot issues and come up with tailored solutions using bob’s intuitive and comprehensive platform.
Interested in more?
We believe that successful businesses have one thing in common: good people who feel valued. And that fast- growing modern businesses need a better way of ‘doing HR’ to attract and keep real talent.
More case studies
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Building a company culture that excels, surprises, and delights, even remotely Distribution company
Like many distribution companies, Distrelec had been operating with a more traditional approach to HR—seeing it as a service provider rather than a strategic partner. COVID-19 and a recent digital and cultural transformation became a catalyst for rebranding the HR team to the People and Culture team. …
Modernizing HR processes in an established industryAutomotive protection
Jankel had outgrown its paper-based HR processes and sought a modern, centralized HRIS platform that would help them get digitized, organized, and save time.
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Supporting a global remote working modelWebsite building platform
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jimdo’s management decided to transition to a remote company, granting all employees the freedom to work wherever they wanted, anywhere in the world…
Digitizing HR processes and streamlining onboardingComputer games
Rebellion, a British computer games company, has digitized all of their HR admin processes since implementing bob, saving the HR team hours of work each week.…
How LeoVegas scaled culture and communication across 14 sites using bobMobile gaming
LeoVegas is an enterprise organization with more than 1,000 employees of multiple sub-companies spread across 14 sites located in the European Union and the United Kingdom.…
With offices in four cities on two continents, Happy Socks needed a tool that could help them integrate their tech stack and smoothen their employee communications. Working with bob moved them from emails to Shoutouts, and from disparate systems (and spreadsheets, ew) to one single source of truth.…