Tenth Revolution Group Covid-19 Risk Statement

Tenth Revolution Group elected to close both of its UK offices in mid-March 2020 to protect its employees’ health and safety, as uncertainty about the coronavirus pandemic grew. Quite quickly, the coronavirus was confirmed as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Driven by concern for its employees’ health and safety, Tenth Revolution Group’s UK offices remained closed until 27th July 2020. During this nearly five-month period, Tenth Revolution Group expended considerable time and money transforming its workforce from office-based to working remotely. During this same period, the UK saw coronavirus cases and deaths gradually increase, before appearing to turn the corner and decrease steadily and then plateau. More recently, UK Government guidance has changed to ask individuals to work at home if they can successfully and as a result, Tenth Revolution Group has encouraged its employees to do so once again.

Tenth Revolution Group has followed the UK government advice during the entirety of the pandemic. In early July, Tenth Revolution Group conducted an anonymous employee survey to gauge employee need to return to the office. Through this survey, Tenth Revolution Group learned that some employees needed to return to the offices full time, some wanted to split their work week between the office and home and still others wanted to continue to work remotely full time for the foreseeable future.

Tenth Revolution Group is happy to accommodate this entire spectrum of employee choice. From its nearly 15 years in business in the UK, Tenth Revolution Group knows that it is critical to train and closely manage its newly hired employees so that they can contribute value to the business and increase their own chances of success at Tenth Revolution Group. Tenth Revolution Group cannot meaningfully conduct this training and management over video calls and email – the training and management must be face to face. It was for these reasons that Tenth Revolution Group decided to open its UK offices in July, with social distancing and at reduced capacities, to newly hired employees and those who wanted to return to the offices, although many of these individuals have now resumed working from home in accordance with the revised Government guidance.

As you can see from the risk assessment below, Tenth Revolution Group made significant efforts to open its offices in compliance with all health and safety requirements and with the goal of providing a safe work environment for all of its UK employees.

Tenth Revolution Group takes the safety and wellbeing of its staff, candidates, clients and the third parties working with us very seriously. In line with government requirements, we completed a comprehensive risk assessment for the Group’s UK operations. Tenth Revolution Group is closely following the guidance issued by the Government, the devolved governments in the UK, the Public Health scientific advisors and the World Health Organisation.

Tenth Revolution Group completed comprehensive risk assessments of both of its UK office environments (London and Newcastle) and identified a range of controls to manage the risk of Covid-19 cross-contamination and transmission.

Where the risk of Covid-19 cannot be controlled to an acceptable level we have suspended these activities. As part of the risk assessment process, a number of in-house and landlord generated Covid-19 documentation was completed.

The following areas were risk assessed:

Office-based operations staff
Office-based operations – kitchens and breakout areas
Bathrooms that Tenth Revolution Group is responsible for under our leases and service agreements
Management of visitors and third party contractors
Management of postal deliveries and packages
Maintenance

As a result of the risk assessments, Tenth Revolution Group implemented (where reasonably practicable) a range of controls which include:

Where risk of transmission cannot be controlled, the activity has been suspended.
We have provided employees with the flexibility to work on a hybrid basis from either the office or their home, to take account of social distancing, public transport constraints and caring responsibilities. Those employees who are high risk continue to work from home. At the present time, given the change in the UK Government’s current guidance, employees are being encouraged to work from home if they can successfully.
We have suspended travel between our UK offices until further notice.
We have enhanced cleaning, handwashing and hygiene instruction clearly displayed with the office and restroom facilities in line with official guidance.
We have increased our office space cleaning regimes to include high touchpoint, desktops, monitors, mice and chairs.
We have provided on-site hand sanitizer, anti-bacterial wipes and face masks.
We have taken all reasonable steps to maintain a 2m social distance in the workplace. Where social distancing is not always possible, we have put in place measures to manage transmission risk, including limiting the number of employees in certain spaces and one-way flow management systems.
We have deployed social distancing and other safety signage throughout the workplace, kitchens and meeting rooms.
We have provided information, instruction and training to ensure all employees are fully aware of the precautions needed to control transmission and what to do if they or a colleague has a confirmed case of Covid-19 or presents symptoms of Covid-19.
We are working alongside local building management to ensure the safety of our employees in shared areas of the building.
Agility in closing one or both of our UK offices if required by government order or if Tenth Revolution Group concludes that the criticality of keeping one or both of the offices open is outweighed by Tenth Revolution Group’s concerns for the health and safety of its employees.

The risk assessments and operational position are reviewed and updated daily by a multi-disciplinary team of managers which includes the Global Head of Property and Facilities to ensure controls are still relevant and being implemented. The output from the assessment is shared with our management team. Employees are informed of any changes and updates to guidance as and when the guidance from the UK Government changes.