Culture

Our culture has people at its heart, recognising them, first and foremost, as human beings who have loves, fears, hopes, and dreams, many of which have nothing whatsoever to do with work. While we’re at work together, we try to treat each other with fairness, kindness, respect, and humility. And then we go home to the people and things that matter most.

Let it be resoundingly clear to anyone thinking of working for us, or already doing so, that what we’re interested in is your capability and your experience, your ideas and your drive, your mind and your heart. We will never turn you away, hold you back or pay you less for any other reason. Read our diversity and inclusion policy here.

Our values

We want our organisation to consist of people who:

• Are always professional; Take the wheel when needed; Have a positive attitude
• Are always objective and honest; Keep an eye on the future; Have a sense of fairness
• Are generous with their time in order to help others succeed; Trust each other; Ask, listen and hear
• Are approachable; Are curious, and who want to learn; Demonstrate leadership by example
• Are constantly looking for ways to improve things; Develop products we can be proud of; Have an intuitive sense of what’s important
• Laugh a lot

Your career

We’ll nurture your career by providing you with the support and development opportunities you need, by trying to make sure you spend as much time as possible doing what you’re really great at, and by allowing you to take ownership of a little bit (or even a big bit) of our business. We know that if our employees grow, we grow. And right now we’re growing a lot.

Profit share

At the end of every year we distribute 10% of our pre-tax profits among our employees. Everybody in the company gets an equal proportion of their salary, no matter what job they do. We then top that up with a bonus that recognises the performance of each individual in helping us to grow our business.

Cake and champagne

Our efforts to understand how people feel about their work at Source revealed that they were least likely to be happy around the middle of the week. So we started having a cake delivered every Wednesday afternoon. Now everybody’s much happier on a Wednesday. Then they persuaded us to buy a champagne fridge. We might have to stop asking soon.

Source miles

At the end of every year, anyone who has worked for us for five years or more gets to pick a destination and make the case for us all going there. Then we have a vote and take the whole team to whichever destination is the most popular. So far we’ve been to Istanbul, Seville, Dubrovnik, Corfu and the Loire Valley.

Refuge

Many of our employees are former consultants, who loved consulting but not the lifestyle that went with it. We provide them with interesting and challenging work in a more flexible environment. We might ask them to travel occasionally, but usually for a few days at a time to places like New York, Paris or Dubai, rather than for a few months at a time to the back end of nowhere. We give them the chance to take ownership of something, and to work with the leaders of the most successful professional services firms in the world.