Green Man Gaming’s Ilona Popczyk wins inaugural HR Hero award
The eighth GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards for the UK took place today at the Royal Institution in London, as part of our HR Summit.
The event crowned 26 game companies for their excellence in supporting their staff, based on a two survey system, one for the employer to fill in (worth 20% of the score) and the other for employees (80% of the score).
The winners are divided into three categories – large, mid-sized, and small companies – and you can find the list below. Congratulations to all the winning firms!
Alongside these Best Places badges, we revealed the winners of six special awards designed to highlight excellent work from companies in specific areas such as combating climate change, supporting charities, ensuring a healthy workforce, encouraging diversity, and working with educators.
We also have an award to highlight the UK games industry’s HR Hero, which replaces our previous ‘Best Boss’ award – it went to Green Man Gaming’s human resources director and data protection officer Ilona Popczyk.
The event also hosted the G Into Gaming Award once again, which is handed to someone who has been championing women in the industry – this year it was won by Harinder Sangha of Maverick Games.
The UK Best Places To Work project is sponsored by Amiqus, Games London, Lighthouse Games, and Playground Games. You can read more details about how the awards are judged here.
Here’s the full list of winners:
LARGE COMPANY WINNERS (Sponsored by Lighthouse Games)
D3T / Coconut Lizard
NaturalMotion Games
Playground Games
Rare
MID-SIZED COMPANY WINNERS (Sponsored by Playground Games)
Bulkhead
CCP
Electric Square
Expression Games
Fuse Games
Lighthouse Games
Maverick Games
Playstack
Playtonic Games
Studio Gobo
Wushu Studios
SMALL COMPANY WINNERS
Forthstar
Indigo Pearl
Mastered
MLC (Magna Ludum Creatives)
Mojiworks
Nosebleed Interactive
Ripstone
Snap Finger Click
Sweet Justice
Swipe Right PR
Wardog Studios
SPECIAL AWARDS
G Into Gaming Award
Harinder Sangha, Maverick Games
Education Award
Electric Square (Winner)
King
NaturalMotion Games
NDreams
Sumo Group
Environmental Award (Sponsored by Games London)
NaturalMotion Games
Playground Games
Playstack
Rare (Winner)
Rocksteady
Health and Wellbeing Award
CCP
Futurlab
NaturalMotion Games (Winner)
Playtonic Games
Wushu Studios
Training and Development Award
NaturalMotion Games
Rare
Rocksteady
Sumo Group (Winner)
TT Games
Corporate Social Responsibility Award (presented by SpecialEffect)
D3T / Coconut Lizard
King
NaturalMotion Games
Playtonic Games
Rocksteady (Winner)
Diversity Award
Code Coven
Maverick Games
Mojiworks
Playground Games
Rare (Winner)
Rocksteady
HR Hero Award
Alice Wyman, Rocksteady
Anita McIntyre, Airship
Ilona Popczyk, Green Man Gaming (Winner)
Kate Lindsay, CCP
Lauren Griffin, Sports Interactive
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