“In addition, Version 1’s recognition as a Healthy Place to Work in Northern Ireland was a significant milestone for our company.

“We are also extremely proud of the visible efforts the company has made to reach out to local communities, and our Community First activities have enabled many people to access education and skills that drive employment opportunities. We have also benefitted from online sessions held by Aware NI to help us all with various tools to use during this time to reinforce resilience and ensure we have been adapting well to the working from home model. The charity helps people realise that it is okay not to be okay, and this service has proved to be invaluable. Lorna McAdoo, Director of Operations and Business Development NI at Version 1, said: “Our support for Aware NI stemmed from a wish to highlight the mental toll that the pandemic has been inflicting on so many people. From the results, the company was able to put together a plan identifying paths to improvement, which subsequently led to the prestigious certification. This was achieved by engaging employees in the completion of a robust survey covering four pillars – purpose, mental resilience, connection and physical health – which gathered insight into their experience of work. Version 1 has also been officially recognised as a Healthy Place to Work. Some of the Community First initiatives include mentoring, helping local schools, grinds, tackling youth homelessness and community engagement. The aim of this scheme is to improve employment opportunities in communities by supporting awareness, education, and access by leveraging technology and skills.Ĭommunity First is locally driven, enabling each Version 1 office to support causes they care about in their particular area. Community First is Version 1’s main Corporate Social Responsibility initiative and is driven locally by the employees. This in turn led to an increase in people experiencing isolation, anxiety, stress, and grief at losing loved ones.Īdditionally, the tech firm’s commitment to supporting the local community is a critical element of its core values. People were forced to adapt to significant lifestyle changes, such as working from home and limiting social interactions. V ersion 1 took the decision to support a mental health charity when the consequences of the pandemic became overwhelmingly apparent during the last 18 months.

Invest Derry Strabane – which recently launched the Work Life Balanced campaign in association with Version 1, aimed at promoting the North West as a premium remote working destination – has welcomed the company’s initiatives which also include supporting the local community where their staff are based. Version 1, the global IT services company currently recruiting remote working staff in the North West, has teamed up with mental health charity Aware NI to help ensure that its employees are fully supported during COVID-19. It has a workforce of over 20,000 across more than 130 countries.Į&I Engineering founder and chief executive, Philip O’Doherty, said: “We are excited to join the Vertiv team and continue to grow our business through Vertiv’s global reach, strong channel presence and great customer positioning in critical digital infrastructures.” Septem/ 0 Comments / by Adam Goodall Ohio-headquartered Vertiv offers power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services to customers in the data centre, communications, commercial and industrial markets. With all current roles to be safeguarded in the takeover, E&I says it will recruiting around 100 new staff across its three locations in the North West in the next year. The electrical switchgear manufacturer has plants across Derry and Donegal and employs more than 2,100 people worldwide. North West firm E&I Engineering will recruit 100 new staff in the next year after its acquisition by the US-based infrastructure solutions and services company Vertiv.

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