At Highgate, we’re always looking for ways to promote wellbeing, so this September, we took on an ambitious step challenge to make the most of the last days of summer by collectively walking over a million steps as a team. During our lunch breaks and downtime, we encouraged everyone to get outdoors, stretch their legs, …
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Highgate officially accredited as a Great Place to Work Certified™ Company!
Highgate have been officially accredited as a Great Place to Work Certified™ organisation. The Great Place to Work Certification™ is a significant achievement, backed by validated and anonymous feedback from Highgate employees and collected through Great Place To Work®. As the global authority on workplace culture, Great Place To Work® utilises its rigorous, data-driven For …
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Highgate Attends the Sustainability in Tech Summit and Awards
On Thursday 8th February, CRN hosted their first ‘Sustainability in Tech Summit and Awards’. The event was held at London’s BAFTA venue, and our Head of Alliances & Operations, Jenny Latimer, attended, representing Highgate, as well as hosting one of the discussion panels. The day consisted of over 120 IT leaders gathering to discuss the …
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January Fitness Challenge
January is a notoriously difficult and ‘long’ month for many, with the added pressure of New Years resolutions and the widely proclaimed ‘new year, new me’ mentality. At Highgate, we took these things and decided to make them a positive. We introduced a January Fitness challenge – all employees were invited to join the challenge, …
Finalists for the Green Shoots Award!
Highgate are delighted to announce that we have been listed as finalists for the Green Shoots Award in the CRN Sustainability in Tech Awards 2024! The Green Shoots award aims to recognise companies who are only just starting out or in the early stages of their sustainability journey, but who have also made great progress …
The Big PNE Sleep Out
In continued support of The Foxton Centre, Highgate are proud to be taking part in The Big PNE Sleep Out on Friday 17th November. The Foxton Centre are a Preston-based charity, founded as a youth centre in 1969. Since then The Foxton Centre has continued supporting young people, as well as homeless people, street sex workers …
Delivering Managed API & Application Protection to the UK Market – Highgate Partner with ThreatX!
Since the end of 2022, cyber-attacks targeting APIs have increased by over 400%, and findings show nearly 5,000 API attackers operated in December alone. Findings showed that 80% of attacks happened over authenticated APIs, leading to 48% of businesses confirming that API protection has become a C-Level discussion. This is why Highgate have selected ThreatX …
Is your business suffering from the IT skills shortage?
Over the last couple of years, the technology sector has faced an ever-increasing skills shortage. Businesses are finding it harder than ever to recruit, train and retain suitable employees. The demand for entry-level and manual work has declined, and there is a higher need than ever for highly skilled professionals within nearly all IT disciplines. …
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4 Day Week – One Year On
In April 2022, Highgate embarked on a 6-month trial of a 4-day work week. Adopting the 100:80:100 working model, Highgate committed to pay employees 100 per cent salary, for 80 per cent of time, in return for 100 per cent productivity. Highgate continued to remain operational five days a week, using an established buddying system …
Highgate announce their carbon emissions for 2022
Highgate have calculated and double offset their 2022 carbon emissions, making them Carbon Neutral Plus for the second year running. Highgate’s commitment to sustainability began in 2021, when Jenny Latimer joined the business as Head of Alliances & Operations. Fuelled by her own personal passion for sustainability, and with the support of her senior leadership …
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