easyJet holidays has today been named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024, as one of the top ten most loved big companies. The tour operator was given recognition for the employee experience it provides, as voted by employees through a companywide survey.

New performance shares, a weekly peer-to-peer thank you scheme and a fortnightly ‘permission to pause’, which allows employees to step away from work for two hours and do something for their wellbeing were called out as some of the factors contributing to the award win.

The operator launched in late 2019 with a team of 50, before facing the industry wide challenges of the pandemic. It has since become the fastest growing, lowest cost and highest margin travel company in the UK, expecting customer growth of 34% in 2024 and increasing market share from 5% to 7%. The team is now made up of over 300 people with the business having recruited from sectors including travel, retail, technology and government.

Garry Wilson, easyJet holidays’ CEO, said: “I’m so delighted that we’ve been named The Sunday Times Best Place to Work for the second year running, as one of the top ten most loved big companies in the U.K, recognised by our own people as a company that fosters an engaged and inclusive workplace.

“Making sure our people have a brilliant employee experience is so incredibly important to us, so I couldn’t be prouder that our talented people continue to love working here and have been given recognition for the fantastic culture they’ve created and live by day in, day out.”

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About easyJet holidays:

easyJet holidays, offers great-value beach, city and lakes holidays to over 7000 hotels, in more than 100 destinations across Europe, directly through its website and through over 5000 travel agent partners. Named Rising Brand of the Year  byTravolution following launch in 2019, having taken almost 2 million people away in 2023. The ATOL-protected holidays can be secured with a deposit of just £60 per person, including flights, hotel, 23kg luggage and transfers on beach holidays. easyJet holidays is a member of ABTA, and all packages are covered by its Ultimate Flexibility, offering freedom to change a booking, a refund guarantee, and best price guarantee. In 2024 the holiday provider will also start operating from Switzerland, France and Germany.

Winners of the Sustainable Future Award at the Globe Travel Awards, easyJet holidays has a sustainability strategy focusing on three key pillars – create better holiday choices which is about making sustainable travel affordable and accessible to everyone; keep our holidays special which is maximising the benefits and minimising the negative impacts of travel and tourism, and transform travel for everyone which means embedding sustainability into business decisions and behaviours and driving meaningful change in the industry. The tour operator has partnered with the UNWTO to help develop the first environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework for tourism businesses, co-designing a measurement tool that is meaningful and feasible for better monitoring how tourism businesses impact, and depend on, people, planet and prosperity.

easyJet holidays has been named one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024– being called out as one of the most loved employers and highly commended as a great place to work for LGBTQIA+ employees, as well as being named one of the Best Workplaces in Travel 2023.