People Power Award

Sponsored by Employment Hero

This award celebrates a business that demonstrates an enlightened and supportive approach to its people and culture.

Award Winner

hipages Group

It should come as little surprise that the first recipient of the new Smart50 People Power Award is hipages Group, the country’s largest online tradie marketplace. Sponsored by Employment Hero.

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Award Shortlistees

CJC Management

CJC Management offers expertise to clients in all stages of the project lifestyle, from initiation stage to finalisation. As part of a global expansion, CJC Management has focused on three core factors: employee retention, workplace safety, and product quality assurance.  Part of this has been to establish a new HR app, Sentrient, which is more convenient for employees when implementing new courses and engaging talent consultants.

Goddess Cleaning Group

Stacey Barrass founded Goddess Cleaning Group: a thriving, profitable social enterprise that gives opportunities to women who find themselves in tough situations. Today she employs 22 individuals who she mentors to help rebuild their self-esteem and confidence, with the aim of supporting those from disadvantaged and domestic violence backgrounds by giving them supportive, flexible and empathetic employment.

hipages Group

hipages Group was born in 2004 out of a desire to find quality, local tradies easily. Co-founders Roby Sharon-Zipser and David Vitek sought to address the gap in the market, redefining the directory concept for the information age. To engage the growing team, hipages has offsite strategy days and townhalls with 91% of employees feeling that they know where to share ideas or feedback to improve on product or business operations.

Scratch

It’s not easy taking on a nearly $3 billion self-regulated industry when more than 90% of it is owned by Mars, Nestle and foreign private equity. Scratch is offering a new breed of Australian-made dog food. One that’s good for your dog, better for the planet, and easier for you. This new approach is also applied to Scratch’s people with a four-day, remote-first work week, and five paid days a year for volunteering at animal charities being part of the growth-hungry startup’s retention strategy.