
Enabling people to thrive
Our people bring talent, energy and experience to the business and are vital to our success. It is important to us that we make ATG a great place to work, and we regularly engage with our employees to understand their values and concerns.
Our employees understand that how they work is as important as what they deliver, and every member of our team knows what's expected of them and how how can succeed.
This, combined with our commitment to diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities, make ATG a place where all people can work and thrive in a supportive environment.
Supporting our people

Employee recognition and engagement
Employee performance is recognised through regular performance and objective setting meetings. Employees are rewarded for performance and long service through an employee voucher scheme at key milestones and commendable achievements.
Employee performance is also celebrated with an annual awards ceremony known as the ATG Spotlight Awards.
Every year we run a company-wide survey to understand employee sentiment and engagement, which is followed by focus groups and actions for the coming year. The most recent survey saw 92% of the respondents feeling personally engaged with the Company and their roles – the highest score since we started conducting the survey a number of years ago. This was driven by employees’ trust in our leadership, purpose and Company direction.

Wellbeing
Throughout the challenges of remote working in the past two years, we have supported parents with flexible working patterns and offered paid and non-paid time off to support their childcare responsibilities.
All employees have remained connected while working from home, via business updates through regular Global All Hands meetings, which all employees are invited to attend. Team meetings were also held focusing on specific work activities and for managers to ensure the wellbeing of their teams whilst based at home.
The launch of our global wellbeing programme facilitated two or three activities per month allowing employees to connect with each other away from work responsibilities.
As we transition back into the office this year, management has taken into consideration feedback received from the employee engagement survey whereby the majority of employees requested flexible working and permanent opportunities to work from home. With this in mind, we have adopted different models for different geographies according to local government guidelines and the needs of the business operating in that country.

Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities
We are fully committed to the elimination of unlawful and unfair discrimination, and we value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to our organisation. We know that our continued success relies on people having a wide range of experience and skills to bring different perspectives, promote innovation and provide constructive challenge and as such are in the process of implementing our diversity and inclusion strategy in accordance with our Board and workforce diversity policies.
In the last 12 months, 45% of our new hires have been female, however as with most tech companies, there is a shortage of female applicants in technology specific roles. Our hiring strategy looks to increase the sourcing of more female candidates by engaging with women in tech forums and working with agencies to balance out applications where possible.
As well as improving gender balance, we look to increase our mix of ethnic backgrounds. In the US, we have forged a partnership with the Professional Diversity Network where every role is posted to 17 ethnically diverse job boards with the aim to increase our sourcing of diverse candidates.
Our hiring practice is committed to fair and equal treatment regardless of an individual’s race, age, gender, ethnic background, religion or beliefs, gender assignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, or disabilities. Our recruitment and selection processes focus on selecting the best candidate for each role and we hire based on merit and the right skills for the role.
As well as hiring, we continue to track the gender and ethnic minority balance of our workforce and are committed through our initiatives to ensure that we improve this.
Our other initiatives include:
- A talent review to identify female high potentials with clear development and progression plans. The Board also continues to focus on succession planning and developing diversity and potential within the senior leadership team.
- We have reviewed all employee pay and taken steps to level up pay gaps for male and female employees doing the same role with similar experience levels.
- Diversity, equality and inclusion training for all employees. Through online interactive training we educate employees and create awareness on the following topics:
- Microaggression in the workplace
- Unconscious bias
- Workplace cultural competency and humility
- Diversity, inclusion and sensitivity
- Celebration and recognition of internationally diverse days including Pride Month, International Women’s Day, and World Day for Cultural Diversity. Our North America employees will be given Juneteenth as a paid holiday to support our black communities commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in the US from 1865.
- We will seek to actively gain employee feedback on what more we could be doing to support diversity, equality and inclusion by adding a new theme in the next employee engagement survey.
- In the UK and Germany, we have shown support to government initiatives such as the Kickstarter programme and apprenticeships by offering young people, or those without the opportunity to study further education, a placement at ATG. This provides qualifications, training and on the job corporate experience in entry level roles.
- In North America we are aiming to create more internships which support young people gaining quality work experience through the University of Nebraska supported schemes.

Development and training
We ensure that all employees have access to the training they need to support their development. All employees are required to undertake mandatory training annually to ensure they understand their legal and regulatory duties in relation to insider trading, cyber security and data security.
We also offer a bespoke training programme that is run by internal experts, sharing knowledge and learning technical skills from other departments to develop a well-rounded range of skillsets.
Other training includes professional qualification sponsorship for all employees. During objective setting periods, employees review training needs with their managers. Training will be offered on a case by case basis and subject to supporting developmental skills and meeting objectives.
New hires are all presented with a 30/60/90-day onboarding programme to set them up for success and ensure they receive a comprehensive plan to learn about the Company goals, infrastructure, processes and ways of working cross functionally and within their department. In the UK, new hires have probation reviews which take place at three months and at six months.
Performance reviews are carried out twice a year, allowing managers to have meaningful conversations about their employees’ development, discussing talent profiling and career development. To support these conversations, we offer access to development plans and 360 feedback tools.

Employee benefits
We believe it is necessary to offer a competitive benefits package to ensure we can recruit and retain the right calibre of person. As well as some key financial benefits and paid holiday/vacation leave, we provide benefits that support people at all stages of life.
We believe in supporting growing families and offer paid leave benefits for new parents across each country, with the UK offering enhanced pay.
We provide pension arrangements for the benefit of our employees in the UK and US, including a defined contribution scheme in the UK and a 401(k) plan in the US. All new UK and US employees, once eligible, can join the Group’s defined contribution scheme or 401(k), respectively. Auto enrolment applies to both plans.
Additionally, we offer a Cycle to Work scheme which supports our commitment to reducing carbon emissions and improving employee health and wellbeing.
