How does Virgin Media O2 support flexible working arrangements for its employees?

Virgin Media O2 operates as a flexible-first organisation, recognising that employees perform best with choice and clarity. While they ask for at least eight days per month for in-person connection, this can include various collaborative activities beyond just office time. This approach ensures purposeful and meaningful interactions when teams come together.

What initiatives does Virgin Media O2 have in place to foster an inclusive and diverse workplace?

Virgin Media O2 is "All In" on removing bias and barriers, supported by six employee networks like the Women's Network, Neurodiversity Network, and Proudly. These networks, with executive leadership support, have helped the company achieve accreditations such as Menopause Friendly, Carer Confident, and Disability Confident employer status. This demonstrates their commitment to representing the diverse communities they serve.

What are some of the key benefits offered to employees at Virgin Media O2?

Virgin Media O2 provides a comprehensive benefits package, including generous enhanced maternity and adoption leave at 26 weeks full pay, and enhanced paternity leave at 14 weeks full pay. Employees also receive 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with an additional five paid volunteer days each year. Other notable benefits include a birthday off, an annual bonus, and an Electric Car Salary Sacrifice scheme.

Highlights

Flexibility

84%

Work-life balance

79%

Benefits

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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

Age inclusive

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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

Benefits

Virgin Media O2 employees rated the benefits on offer as a 77/100

Career progression

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Collaborative

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Virgin Media O2 have a collaborative culture.

Culture

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Diversity

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Working groups to support female and non-binary employees

Working groups to support ethnically diverse employees

Working groups to support employees with disabilities

Working groups to support neurodiverse employees

Working groups to support LGBTQ+ employees

Early career friendly

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Graduate programmes

Apprenticeship programmes

Internship programmes

Faith friendly

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Meditation space

Faith rooms

Family friendly

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Enhanced maternity leave

Enhanced paternity leave

Adoption leave

Shared parental leave

Carer’s leave

Pregnancy loss leave

Neo-natal leave

Fast-paced

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Virgin Media O2 have a fast-paced culture.

Flexibility

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

Hybrid working (with some weekly office time)

A little flexibility in start and finish times

Fun

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Virgin Media O2 have a fun culture.

Learning & development

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In house training

Hackathons

Professional subscriptions

Mission

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Tech for good

Sustainability

Data-driven

Non-salary compensation

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Annual bonus

Enhanced pension match/contribution

Referral bonus

Employee discounts

Electric Car Salary Sacrifice

Cycle to work scheme

Reward & recognition

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Awards

Bonuses

Generous commission structure

Salary increases

Gifts

Vouchers

Social mobility committed

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Mentorship schemes

Community or school outreach

Relaxed degree requirements

Work-life balance

79% of Virgin Media O2 employees feel they have a good work-life balance.

Early Careers

Our award-winning early careers schemes at Virgin Media O2 (you may see them as Future Careers on our careers site) are designed to help graduates, apprentices and students build real-world skills from day one. These structured schemes are supported with mentoring, training and projects that are making a real impact for our customers. They also provide clear routes into long-term careers across technology, digital and business roles.

Graduate schemes: Our graduate schemes give you hands-on experience, industry knowledge and the support you need to thrive from day one.

Internships: Our internships are year-long industry placement schemes, designed for university students completing a compulsory year in industry. They offer end-to-end business insight and tailored development to help you grow.

Apprenticeships: Our apprenticeships are open to everyone and combine paid employment with education, giving you practical experience alongside dedicated time to study for a recognised for qualification.

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.

To better commit to our DE&I ambitions, we have six incredible employee networks with executive leadership support. These networks have spearheaded several of our accreditations such as being a Menopause Friendly, Carer Confident, and Disability Confident employer. Check out our networks below:

Women's Network - focused on making a measurable difference in gender equality.

Neurodiversity Network - a place for allies and people with and carers of those with Neurodivergent conditions.

Enrich - empowers and advocates for our employees from global majority backgrounds.

Proudly - creates a safe space and community for LGBTQIA+ employees to thrive and be themselves.

We Care - supports carers and helps them make time for themselves.

Ultraviolet - champions equality and equity for the disabled community.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.