Intro

Howdy, partner! We see that you’re new to these parts, so we want to take a moment and share some nuggets of invaluable info with you. We obviously believe you’re pretty darn special—otherwise, you wouldn’t be here—and we know InterWorks wouldn’t be here without our team of experts, like you. Our success is largely due to finding and keeping our treasure trove of employees safe and satisfied. We search high and low for the diamonds in the rough that make InterWorks the scrappy, smart pioneers we are.

We know we’ve struck it rich when it comes to our team, which means we work as hard as we can to protect our assets. In this next section, you’ll find all of our most wanted information, from payroll and benefits to professional development and the wildest perks around. Now go on, git!

Payroll Schedule

Business is booming in town, and we know competition is something fierce when it comes to getting the best of the best to join your posse. We understand how important it is to offer competitive salaries and benefits in order to maintain our high level of success. On the flip side, we’re also intent on building a sustainable company that isn’t subject to every fluctuation of the tech industry and the larger economy. When we find great people who fit the InterWorks mould, we stand by ‘em, and we’re proud to offer reasonable initial salaries and readdress them as people achieve more and more success. Some employers out there may be able to offer higher dollar values, but we know that InterWorks is second to none when it comes to the team you’ll be working with, the atmosphere of casual excellence, and the opportunity to do what you truly love.

Compensation

Your offer letter shows whether your position is full time or part time. All employees are eligible for medical and retirement benefits, and all employees can participate in company perks.

Payroll

Salary is paid monthly on the last working day of the month. If that falls on a weekend or bank holiday, your salary will be paid on the Friday before that. We can’t guarantee that your salary will arrive in your account by the end of the month though – that’s in your bank’s hands. So, make sure you ride on over to the bank to check on your money bags if you’re not sure.

Feedback & Evaluations

At InterWorks, your voice is important to us, so feel free to give us a holler anytime. We want our employees to lead the charge, so we provide a heck of a lot of ways for you to share the thoughts and brainy ideas you’ve got rolling around in your noggin.

15Five

15Five is our employee engagement platform that serves a number of functions.

• First, we use it for periodic (generally biweekly) pulse checks: How is your week going? Do you have any challenges you’re facing? What’s going well, and where do you need a helping hand? Do you feel like a lone tumbleweed tossed by the wind, or are you riding high, on top of the world?
• We also use it for targeted surveys: What do you think of our health insurance? What’s on your technology wish list?
• Next, we use it track our company-wide, practice-level and individual objectives. Everything we do circles back to making InterWorks a great place to be. This ain’t no goat rodeo. We mean business when it comes to getting the best people to deliver the best work to the best clients. All of our strategy to accomplish this can be found in our 15Five Objectives and their associated Key Results.
• Also, managers can use 15Five to keep up with their 1:1s and to follow up with team members. Because we’re not about putting cattle tags on people.

Annual Reviews

We are constantly in communication about the quality and efficiency of the work we’re producing, which means we’re evaluating performance on an ongoing basis. This informal review feedback is essential to each person here achieving their personal goals, as well as providing the best possible work product. However, casual chatter at the local water cooler just isn’t the same as a grand ole annual review. Therefore, we also conduct more formal performance reviews via 15Five on an annual and semi-annual basis. This is the time to look back on what you’ve accomplished and set goals for yourself. These reviews give us a chance to look back at the year’s successes and struggles and to assess the opportunities ahead. Compensation adjustments may also be made based on these yearly reviews.

AMA

We also offer an “Ask Me Anything” Q&A format at interworks.com/ama. This is where you’ll go if you’d like the head honcho himself, Behfar, to respond to a question that affects the company as a whole. We ask that you include your name, so we can have some follow-up discussion and better context for your inquiry. If you prefer to remain anonymous that’s fine too of course; giving you a place to ask questions is more important to us than knowing who has asked them.

Ideas

Finally, we have the “Ideas” button in Slack. If you make a suggestion that could benefit InterWorks, use this button. This will set a process in motion to make your brilliant ideas come to life.

Benefits

We are committed to sponsoring a comprehensive benefits program for all full-time employees. We periodically review the benefits program and will make appropriate modifications based on maintaining a competitive and sustainable level of benefits. Due to the nature of changing and unforeseeable circumstances, we do reserve the right to modify, add or delete benefits offered. We know it’s a wild world out there, which is why we always aim to provide the very best to our team and their families.

Benefits Roundup: 

• Eligibility begins the 1st day of the month following your start date
• All UK staff are signed up for a healthcare plan. This gives, optical, dental, therapy, and consultation cover, as well as cover for a range of other health and wellbeing services. In this case, “therapy” refers to Physiotherapy, Acupuncture, Chiropractic services, Homeopathy and Osteopathy. Please note that there is a tax implication of about £3 per month for this cover. If you do not wish to be covered, you can opt out.
• To help you in your fitness aspirations, InterWorks offers our employees and their families a reimbursement-based Wellness Benefit. This is open to any kind of subscription or membership that helps keep your mind and body in the best shape possible. Please keep in mind, things like yoga, fitness apps, dance classes or anything else that keeps you moving and healthy can be applied, however we are not able to pay for any physical equipment or machinery. The annual amount available for you to draw on is £1,000, and you may make multiple submissions per month, up to your annual limit. Individual or family memberships are allowed, you use the benefit as you see fit. Memberships and subscriptions should be paid using a personal account or card and will then be reimbursed.
• Cyclescheme: Cyclescheme allows you to purchase a bike and accessories and then repay that amount from your gross salary over 12, 24, or 36 months. If you’re going to cycle to work, it’s a great way to save money on the items you might need to purchase to do that. Cyclescheme is no longer capped at £1,000, so budding commuters can now save on the exact bike, components and accessories they need to cycle to work.
• Professional Development: Professional development is a core part of why many join a consulting company. To help with this goal, InterWorks has a corporate plan which gives everyone in the company unlimited access to Udemy content. Your Udemy plan is available from https://interworks.udemy.com
• Tech Allowance: We want you to be comfortable and efficient while providing the best experience to our clients and to your co-workers. To help you create the right environment for achieving this goal we offer a Tech Allowance, which can be used for things like accessories and furniture. The amount available will depend on whether you are a remote or non-remote employee, and can be viewed in the MOAS Tech Allowance management view. The funds refresh at four-year intervals, and don’t expire: anything left at the end of your cycle will roll over into the next one. This benefit doesn’t include software purchases or subscriptions. 
• Pension Auto Enrollment: Building up a pension is a vital element of providing for your future. From 1st Jan 2019, we began match funding on qualifying earnings in to the company pension scheme for UK employees according to the following structure:
  • 1 Jan 2019 to 26 Mar 2019: 3% employer + 3% employee
  • 27 Mar 2019 onwards: 5% employer + 5% employee
  • 1 Jan 2020: anyone who wishes to raise their employee contribution to 6%, we will raise our match-funding ceiling to 6%, giving the potential for 6%+6% (note: you can increase your employee contribution above this percentage but the maximum employer contribution will remain at 6%)

This plan is tenure-based:

• Year 1 we match fund up to 3%
• Year 2 we match fund up to 4.5%
• Year 3+ we match fund up to a maximum of 6%

On joining, everyone is automatically opted in to the pension scheme. You are entitled to opt out but you must do so in writing and you will be asked every three years if you wish to remain opted out.

What are Qualifying Earnings?

This is a band of gross annual earnings (this includes salary, overtime, bonuses and commission, as well as statutory sick, maternity, paternity or adoption pay).

For the 2023/24 tax year the band is £6,240 up to £50, 270 (ie the full band is £44,030). This is the same as the previous tax year.

Benefits Guide

InterWorks’ most important asset is our people, which is why we don’t monkey around with your welfare. That’s also why we offer you an exceptional benefits program with many options, designed to meet your needs and the needs of your family. InterWorks Europe Ltd employees are automatically placed on the Aviva Solutions plan. You can choose to pay a little more to upgrade your cover and/or arrange separate cover for an additional adult and dependent children up to the age of 21. If you decide to do that, get in touch with UK HR, who will make the necessary arrangements with Aviva for you.

Your Aviva cover includes:

• Acute conditions
  Our Private Medical Insurance covers treatment for short-term illnesses or injuries that respond quickly to treatment and which leads to a full recovery.
• Extensive cancer cover
  Extensive cover and support at every stage of cancer treatment.
• Hospital charges and specialist fees
  Our private medical insurance provides cover for things like consultations, diagnostic tests, such as X-rays and blood tests, specialists’ fees and hospital accommodation.
• Treatment for back, neck, muscle or joint pain (musculoskeletal conditions)
  Solutions includes BacktoBetter, an independent musculoskeletal case management service for members, to help them get better and back to work quicker.
• Mental Health treatment
  Solutions includes Mental Health Pathway providing your employees with quick access to quality talking therapy and counselling without needing to see a GP referral, simply call us and we will route them through to our clinical provider for assessment and treatment. Out-patient limits, if applicable, don’t apply to Mental Health Pathway.
• Dental and optical cover
  Cover for routine dental treatment, treatment for accidental dental injuries and optical expenses, each up to a specific limit.

This section is intended as a convenient summary of the major points of our private health cover and does not cover all provisions, limitations and exclusions. The official plan documents, policies and certificates of insurance govern in all cases and are available for your inspection at any time.