Employee wellbeing technology firm Trickle has agreed a partnership with IT and business consulting group CGI.
It will work with the Edinburgh-based start-up to offer the employee engagement platform to its customers.
The two companies will initially work together to support UK healthcare organisations that want to improve their workplace through better employee engage mentorship. They will then extend their relationship into other areas, including business change and the wider public sector.
Trickle plans to further extend its reach through similar partnerships with industry players across the UK, to help organisations optimise employee experience in a challenging hiring and retention market.
Trickle was founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneur Paul Reid, who previously started geospatial solutions specialist Sigma Seven, which was acquired by Capita in 2015.
Its client base in Scotland already includes the Scottish Government and more than half of the country’s regional health boards, including NHS Lothian, NHS Grampian, NHS Highland, NHS Tayside, NHS Borders and the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Reid said: “Working with CGI is a great step for Trickle, and will further enhance our reach and credibility in the UK healthcare sector initially, and then beyond.
“Platforms like ours have become vital in helping employers better understand employee needs, they also allow for a better appreciation of employee wellbeing which has undoubtedly been tested in recent times.
“Providing an interface where there are open lines of communication from the ground up, allows for real change where employees feel a part of the process.”
Lindsay McGranaghan, Scotland business unit leader and senior vice president consulting services at CGI, said: “Trickle has proven its ability to strengthen the relationships between employees and leaders with a simple but powerful approach to ensuring that key matters are surfaced and discussed as part of everyday business.
“We have seen the strain those in healthcare particularly have been under over the last two years, so platforms such as Trickle ensure employees can provide regular feedback from the ground up to create positive change.”
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