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At DriveWorks we automate a lot of our business processes with our very own DriveWorks software. There’s not much that we haven’t automated.
We have a whole dashboard of Internal Projects that help us manage different aspects of day to day life at DriveWorks.
The dashboard includes DriveWorks projects for…
Our Internal Projects help our company to run smoothly, automating mundane, repetitive tasks so that we can focus on what matters – creating great software and making our customers and resellers happy.
There is one other important side to what we do too, making sure our team is happy. December is a very busy month for us as a team so we like to plan some festive activities to bring everyone together and have fun.
One of the activities we organise is Secret Santa. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the concept. A budget is set and everyone is given a colleague to buy a present for. Then the gifts are anonymously distributed.
Gone are the days when all names are pulled from a hat, and you could potentially pick out your own name!
This year, Santa has gone digital thanks to DriveWorks!
A Secret Santa icon appeard inside our Internal Projects dashboard.
This took us to the brand new Secret Santa project.
Inside the project we could write our letter to Santa, listing 4 things we’d like to receive and 4 things we’d prefer not to receive. This list will help our Santa do their shopping.
At 3pm on Friday, November 29th, Santa applications closed and DriveWorks randomly assigned everyone with someone to buy a gift for.
The clever rules in the back end of DriveWorks made sure there were no duplicates and that no two people would end up buying for each other.
DriveWorks also automatically emailed every Santa, giving them the name of the person they’re buying for, and their list of likes and dislikes. Check the email below, DriveWorks managed to do all of this in just one minute!
Since then we’ve all been busy hunting for the perfect gift!
Some gifts have already started appearing under the Christmas Tree. We will be distributing them on Friday afternoon with coffee and mince pies.
Check back on our blog for photos and see what gifts we’ve received from our Santas!
Merry Christmas!
This time last year we wrote about why we chose Warrington and why it’s been our home for more than 15 years.
Since then, Warrington has continued to thrive and grow.
With over half of the DriveWorks team living in and around Warrington, we think its a great place to live, work and socialise but it’s not just us who think that, more and more research suggests that Warrington is the place to be.
Red Flag Alert recently identified Warrington as one of the Entrepreneurial Hotspots in the UK.
Red Flag’s research found that Warrington is the second biggest entrepreneurial hotspotoutside of London, in the UK. With 64 incorporations per 1,000 people.
Mark Halstead, managing director ofRed Flag Alert, said: “Warrington South benefits from being strategically placed between two large cities in Manchester and Liverpool.Warrington itself has seen major business growth in recent years, particularly in the science and tech sectors.”
For us, our location is incredibly important. We’re based really close to Manchester and Liverpool airports and the major motorways that connect the UK (M6/M62/M56).
Our location makes it easy for our visitors from far and wide to find us and for travelling to and from the office ourselves, without getting caught in the city traffic.
As an entrepreneurial hotspot, there are increasing initivaties that are connecting tech companies and supporting businesses in the area such as the Warrington Business Exchange and Made Smarter NorthWestthat we are proud to be a part of.
The North West has been chosen as the first to benefit from Made Smarter, given the regions strong reputation in both manufacturing and innovation.
– Donna Edwards, Programme Director, Made Smarter Pilot
Warringtonhas been ranked in the UKs top 20 destinations for high-growth technology businesses, beating its city rivals in terms of funds raised to support company expansions.
The findings have been revealed in the latest Tech Nation Survey which reviews the sector. Warrington is home to companies such as Dassault Systems, Hewlett Packard, Tata Consulting services and of course, DriveWorks.
The report showed that 贈88m was raised byWarringtoncompanies to fund second stage expansion of their proven business models between 2015 and 2018 morethan anywhere else in the North West.
We are proud to be one of these thriving businesses, developing our award winning software in Warrington.
This year, we have recieved two local High Sheriffs Awards, for Innovation and Export and two of the highest accolades available to UK businesses, the Queens Awards for Enterprise. The Queens Awards recognise businesses for outstanding achievement and we are honoured to have received two awards for Innovation and for International Trade.
Warrington has developed a balanced tech cluster, which has not been an easy thing to pull off, but it will be key to the towns prosperity moving forward.”
– Steve Park, Managing Director of Warrington & Co
Starting in 2012, Warringtons economic growth and regeneration programme,Warrington Means Business has aimed to unleash the potential of Warringtons people, its businesses, its connectivity, and its places. Accelerating economic growth and reinforcing Warrington as a strong national driver of prosperity.
Warrington Means Business is committed to driving growth not only through regeneration and development but including culture, skills development, encouraging enterprise, providing affordable homes, supporting local businesses and attracting investment and marketing.
In 2017, a 贈142 million redevelopment of Warrington Town Centre began.
When completed early next year, the scheme will create a new family-friendly shopping, restaurant and leisure experience that will have a newly developed, contemporary market hall and a state-of-the-art multiplex cinema at its heart.
For us, Warrington town centre provides somewhere that is close to the office and suitable for socialising outside of work. It also gives us an exciting location to take our visitors from around the world to see and experience where we live and work as well as providing great venues to hold our annual technical training event, DriveWorks World.
“Warrington is becoming increasingly attractive as a place to invest and to live. The Town Centre in particular is becoming a real focus for urban living.”
– Cllr. Russ Bowden, Warrington Borough Council leader
Management Today named Warrington as one of the Top 20 locations in the UK to do business with.
The Office for National Statistics found the Cheshire and Warrington economy has grown faster than anywhere else in England.
Warrington is one of only 14 UK towns or cities defined as high wage and low welfare, with 79.8 per cent of its population in employment.
The research found that the Warrington local business base is diverse, but is particularly strong in energy, engineering, logistics and software.
We support our local community and our proud memebers of of Manchester Digital, Cheshire & Warrington Growth Hub and the Warrington Business Exchange.
With more and more tech and digital businesses like ours moving to Warrington, we are able to use our community to come together to collaborate, creating a better connected, more cohesive and stronger economy in Warrington.
London rightly has a world-class reputation, but that doesnt mean the rest of the country should live in its shadow there are great business hubs across the UK that deserve recognition.”
-Adam Gale, Management Today Editor
Descriped as the gate way to the north, Warrington and Cheshire offers a wealth of culture, business, and opportunities.
Warrington Borough Council has a vision to Grow a strong Warrington. Within its four pledges to the community it has set out to Grow a strong economy and Create a place to be proud of”.
With the redevelopment of the town centre and investment being spread across a number of sites, Warrington is quickly becoming a business and leisure hub of the North West and we’re proud to be a part of it.
Like the sound of our location and what Warrington has to offer?
Come and join us!
Were always looking for talented people to join our team of software developers, creatives, marketers, engineers and all-round tech geeks.
There’s a very special birthday at DriveWorks HQ today, Ruby is 2!
Incase you havent met Ruby, she is our beautiful, bouncy energetic labrador and today its her second birthday!
Ruby first joined us in 2018, when she was just 10 weeks old and we all fell in love with her immediately.
Since joining us, Ruby has become a very important member of the DriveWorks team who loves to get involved with what ever we are doing – especially if it involves food!
She’s always keen to get out of bed and get to work.
She’s always attentive during meetings.
She loves a lunchtime trip to the pub (if it involves dog treats).
She’s sometimes willing to have her photograph taken.
At lunch time Ruby enjoyed a birthday walk with her friend and fellow Labrodour Inky.
Looks like they had a great time chasing the ball around together!
It’s officially December and at DriveWorks HQ we are getting into the festive spirit!
Yesterday, Glen and Maria visited our local Christmas Tree Farm in Grappenhall, Warrington to select three of their best trees.
Luckily Glen took his pick up, so they were able to bring back our trees ready for decorating.
Never one to miss out, Ruby had a good look at what was going on in the office.
This morning Meghan and Lucy brought the Christmas decorations out of storage and began adding some DriveWorks red to our trees in The Barley Store and Meadowside.
Like last year, we decorated our tree with the faces of our team members.
With lots of new members in the team it was great to see everyones faces on the tree.
Of course this year we will be continuing the tradition of our DriveWorks team Christmas blog series where we will be counting down the days taking a closer look at all the DriveWorks team and finding out what they love about christmas. Stay tuned!
