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Recognition
🏆 Placed Top 28: The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2026
⭐⭐⭐ 'Excellent' Employee Experience - recognised via WorkL
What this recognition tells us: we’re listening, learning, and making progress.
We don’t just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play.
Whatever your story or background, we’re all about unlocking imagination and making creativity accessible to everyone. Whether you’re engaging with customers on the frontline or supporting our colleagues behind the scenes, your impact can be profound and far-reaching.
This is more than toys and books and art supplies. This is about inspiring people to read, learn, create and play.
So, with the right passion, it all starts with you.
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The Works Perks! 🎉
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🎉 25% Colleague Discount
• 25% colleague discount. Plus, exclusive double-discount events!
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🛒MyWorks - Exclusive online discounts
• Access to exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech, and more!
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🏡Enhanced Family Friendly Leave
• Enjoy some Time Well Spent with our enhanced Family Friendly Leave
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✈️ Holidays
• Between 28 to 33 days, including bank holidays.
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🎓 Can-Do Academy
• Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you
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💸 Stream / Paystream
• Stream early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them - for when ‘life’ happens!
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💛 24/7 support for you and your family
• 24/7 support through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme, and so much more!
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🏬 Sharesave
• Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works through Sharesave!
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🥳 And loads more!
• Plus, Long Service Recognition, Life Assurance and a Cycle to Work scheme
And depending on the role, location or grade you join us in, here's a few more benefits you might have access to 👇
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💃 Holiday Purchase
• The option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday
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🚗 Company Car / Car Allowance
• At the right grade, or where a role require a bit more travel, we’ve got you covered with a Job Car / Car Allowance
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🩺 Healthcare Cash Plan
• Healthcare Cash Plans / Private Medical to support your everyday healthcare costs
Our Culture ⭐
We embrace creativity in all aspects of life, no matter who you are or how you express yourself. We are one team. Supporting each other and working together to tackle any challenge, big or small. You won’t find anyone too proud to roll up their sleeves here, with all hands-on-deck to help inspire our customers to read, learn, create and play more.
From sourcing the next best-selling product to crafting in-store displays, there’s plenty of fun opportunities to get your teeth into. We value your initiative, creativity, and empower you to embrace the responsibility and ownership on offer.
Always willing to lend a hand and cheer each other on. We work together to become one of the nation’s most loved retailers.
Our Purpose
To inspire reading, learning, creativity and play 📚🎓🎨🚀
Our Values 💙
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We are Crafty
Smart with what we've got.
Crafty is about our ability to be creative, agile, and smart about what we do, maximising the resources we have.
We think big and constantly innovate to drive change for the better. It's what makes us unique. -
We are Caring
Heart in every action.
Caring is at our core. We care about our customers and communities, our colleagues, our products, and every penny we spend.
We're committed to delivering exceptional experiences, making a positive impact on others, and ensuring every customer and colleague feels valued. -
We are Can-do
Energy that gets it done.
Can-do means focusing on what matters and getting it done efficiently. We keep things simple, work at pace and transform obstacles into achievements together.
Our Can-do spirit and resilience drive us to deliver results.
Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments
At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ+ community (including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, or use another term).
We are open to discussions around working hours and flexible working. And, where possible, we'll try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments for an interview you might attend with us, let us know in your application and we’ll be happy to help!
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About The Works
We don’t just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play.
Because when people spend time doing what they love, it’s Time Well Spent.And with the right passion - It All Starts With You.