Highlights

FLEXIBILITY

Flexibility

84%

WORK_LIFE_BALANCE

Work-life balance

79%

BENEFITS

Benefits

77%

Virgin Media O2

Telecommunications

Reimagining connectivity to supercharge the UK

Telecommunications

We're an award-winning fibre broadband provider & telecommunications company. We manage 47 million UK connections across broadband, mobile, TV and home phone and have around 18,000 colleagues, working hard to provide the very best connectivity to our valued customers.

Our aim is to bring 5G to 50% of the UK population by the end of 2023, in a sustainable and responsible way. We’ve committed to net zero carbon operations by 2025, with further commitments coming soon, which will focus on closing the digital divide and making connectivity more affordable and accessible to millions across the country.

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This score reflects how open and clear a company is about its working environment. The higher the score, the more insight they've shared into their ways of working.

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What Virgin Media O2 offers their employees

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Alternative working patterns

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Open to part-time employees

Open to job sharing

Open to part time work for some roles

84%

Flexibility

84% of Virgin Media O2 employees say they can work flexibly.

Hybrid working (with some weekly office time)

Core hours 11–3

Approach to inclusion

At Virgin Media O2 we're going All In, to remove bias and barriers for our people and our candidates. We're working hard to achieve bold ambitions, to help us better represent the diverse communities we serve across the UK. As an equal opportunities employer, we support and encourage you, to be your authentic self throughout your application journey.

Flexible working at Virgin Media O2

We’re a flexible-first organisation, because we know people do their best work when they have choice and clarity. To support meaningful collaboration, we ask everyone to spend at least eight days each month connecting in person.

That doesn’t just mean time in the office, it could be team meetings, offsites, volunteering days, cross-functional projects, or away days - anywhere meaningful collaboration happens. What matters is making those moments purposeful, so when we come together, it really counts.

Our best advice is to talk to your interviewers during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like for you.

What Employees like about Virgin Media O2
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Benefits

Fab company to work for, benefits are superb and certain roles give lots of autonomy and flexibility. I love it so much, I am still here after 16 years.

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Culture

I love the emphasis on ownership for every employee. Its not typical corporate and it is expected of me to take decisions and own them.

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People & Community

The people always come first and it's a very non-hierarchical environment. All about team-play and I have a great team; we work well together, support one another and get the job done. We have flexibility to work effectively and make sure that we have an open-door policy where we can share and learn from one another. I feel very supported and lucky to be a part of a team that values it's employees.

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Working Environment

We have a very flexible working environment, including working from home as required and flexibility on hours worked. The flexibility means I can work around family commitments and I'm trusted to flex my hours up and down to get the job done. This is really valuable for me.

Awards & Achievements

2nd – Family Friendly

2nd – Family Friendly

Flexa awards 2025
Career Progression

Career Progression

Flexa awards 2025
Flexible

Flexible

Flexa awards 2025
3rd – Large companies

3rd – Large companies

Flexa100 2024
Consumer Goods

Consumer Goods

Industry awards 2023
2nd – Large companies

2nd – Large companies

Flexa100 2023

Working at Virgin Media O2

4 days/week at home

A little flex time

Company employees:

16,000

Gender diversity (m:f):

63:37

Hiring in countries

United Kingdom

Office Locations

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Employee benefits

  • Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at full pay
  • Enhanced paternity leave – 14 weeks at full pay
  • Adoption leave – 26 weeks at full pay
  • Shared parental leave
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • Pregnancy loss leave
  • Carer’s leave – 5 days paid leave (can be taken as 10 half days)
  • Mental health platform access
  • Volunteer days – 5 days paid on top of 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Open to part time work for some roles
  • Birthday off
  • Meditation space
  • Enhanced sick pay
  • Teambuilding days
  • Faith rooms
  • On-site catering
  • Employee discounts
  • Open to job sharing
  • Buy or sell annual leave
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Financial coaching
  • Neo-natal leave
  • Annual bonus
  • Enhanced pension match/contribution
  • Referral bonus
  • Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
  • In house training
  • Hackathons
  • Professional subscriptions
  • Open to part-time employees
  • Returnship

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