Nursery World - South-west nursery group rewards staff with 'Covid bonus'

Snapdragons Nurseries is to give its staff a ‘Covid Bonus’ in recognition of the increased stress they have been under due to the pandemic and to thank them for their hard work.

Staff at Snapdragons Nurseries will each receive a bonus to thank them for their work during the pandemic PICTURED Snapdragons Redland

The group, which operates 10 settings across Bath, Bristol and Wiltshire, has written to its staff team of nearly 400 employees to let them know they will receive a bonus payment, equivalent to a week’s pay, at the end of November.

Writing to all employees, Snapdragons’s director of finance Jennifer Bidel, says, ‘We are very aware of how tricky the last 18 months has been for everybody, both personally and professionally. Lockdowns aside, life at work has been significantly different. You have worked in stressful conditions, dealing with isolating team members and children, been constrained to working in small bubbles and coped with enhanced cleaning routines amongst many, many other things. We know how tiring this has been and we can see the effect that it is having on many of you.

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