Work is a love job—Nation’s happiest staff saddle up at Mounties
Take a look at Australia’s happiest workers. Mounties community club employees love their jobs so much hardly anyone calls in sick, everyone returns from maternity leave and staff turnover is almost zero.
Word of the workplace utopia has spread to the extent that when a job does come up it is filled in just four days, compared to the industry average of 35 days.
The club, at Mt Pritchard near Liverpool, has won numerous awards including Clubs NSW’s club of the year and its HR management award for its employee-friendly approach, which includes paying a wage at least 5 per cent higher than its competitors.
HR manager Jodie Dickson said management meetings and training had been restructured so they only happened well inside core business hours, to allow parents plenty of time to drop off or pick up their children from childcare.
While the average is for 85 per cent of mums to return after maternity leave, at Mounties the figure is 100 per cent.
Sick leave among its 397 staff is 45 per cent below the national average, staff turnover 76 per cent below the average and staff training is 61 per cent above the national average.
Rachael Maxwell, 32, returned to her job as a receptionist after taking maternity leave to have her three-year-old daughter Makayla and is now pregnant with her second child.
“I like coming to work to work with the people I work with. The bosses are awesome,’’ she said.
