Our purpose

At 2degrees, we’re Fighting for Fair to make New Zealand a better place to live. To deliver on our purpose, we are focused on delivering outcomes across four areas – our people, our customers and partners, our environment, and our community. By empowering our people we help them influence change in their communities and foster a positive environmental impact. So when we say we’re Fighting for Fair, we mean that across every degree of connection we make.

People first

For us, a fair workplace begins with fostering a culture of equity, inclusion, and belonging, and creating an environment that enables our people to thrive not just in their roles at work, but in their life outside it. Here are some of the key initiatives we’ve recently delivered to make this happen.

WELL Certification

WELL Certification is the world’s first building standard focusing on human health and wellness and is determined by over 100 features based on air, water, nourishment, light, movement, thermal comfort, sound, materials, mind, and community. We are proud to be NZ’s first organisation to receive their highest certification – WELL Platinum Certification.
  • We control and test the air entering our building every 3 seconds to ensure our team are breathing the freshest air.
  • Natural light floods in constantly to keep the team’s circadian rhythms in check.
  • Our vegetable and herb gardens offer our team fresh food daily.
  • The building also provides a dedicated prayer space, breastfeeding rooms, and exercise spaces.
  • Our wellbeing programme also provides our team with mental health support, fitness and mindfulness programmes.

Fair Parenting

This policy provides greater financial security to caregivers on parental leave and helps maintain pay equity when they return to work.
  • 100% Parental Leave Top Up of an employee’s base salary for the 26-week statutory leave period.
  • 5-day work week pay-out for returning carers while working only four days for up to 12 weeks.
  • Two-for-one Superannuation contributions matched when a carer returns to work, for a period equal to the duration of unpaid leave up to 26 weeks.
  • Full value annual leave is paid out when the carer returns to work and partners will also get two weeks’ paid leave when the baby arrives.

Women in Tech

We’re delivering an initiative aimed at enabling women working in technology to thrive and make 2degrees the best place to grow their technology career.
  • A 200-member group has been set up to connect and support Women in Technology.
  • Online webinars and events organised regularly to hear from inspiring speakers and learn together.
  • Mentoring programs have been designed to help the group support each other.

How we support our people

Health and wellbeing

We actively encourage our people to build healthy habits by offering a range of programmes designed to enhance physical and mental wellbeing.

Flexible working

We offer flexible working arrangements which are designed to suit our people’s needs while also meeting business requirements.

Inclusive culture

We foster inclusive employee groups to celebrate and build understanding of the vibrant, diverse cultures we are lucky to have in our team.

Community driven

Fair Days

To help our employees have a wider impact in the community, we’ve made a commitment to contribute 1% of our employees’ time to volunteer with a range of registered charities and non-profit organisations.
  • In FY23 2degrees staff donated over 1,917 hours to support the community.
  • In FY23, a team of 10 of our people collectively created a digital solution for Shine and volunteered over 140 hours to help the uptake with their DVFree Programme.
  • Delivered over 470 phones to purpose led charities and community groups to provide digital access to vulnerable people.

Shop Local

2degrees Business is proud to deliver our Shop Local competition, offering local businesses a practical helping hand with $20,000 marketing and advertising packages.
  • 2,000+ businesses have entered ‘Shop Local’ since 2019.
  • $400,000 invested to support local businesses since 2019.
  • $20,000 advertising packages handed out to five winners each cycle.
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