100% Human: BVN's Good Stuff

Wellness, diversity and inclusion are our north star, at BVN.

We live in a world that's fast paced, complex and interconnected. To keep up, our people to feel supported. Motivated. And truly excited.

We're continually enhancing the BVN experience and our investment in our people. We strive for ever better balance, encouraging a respectful and inclusive environment where all our people can thrive and be successful.

Being 100% Human recognises the need to embrace wellness in our lives to bring balance and to foster the creativity of our BVN community. To that end we implemented "The Good Stuff" — progressive policies that support our people to help achieve the right balance in their lives.

Wellness Week

We recognise the health of our practice is underpinned by mental, physical and social wellbeing; and the importance of disconnecting in a digital world is critical – we must continue to remember our humanity amongst all the technology.

Wellness Week is an additional week of paid leave at Christmas this year, enabling everyone to get a real holiday to spend doing the things they love and recharging.

Flexible Workplace

Our flexible workplace hours mean everyone can find time to undertake the day to day aspects that make up our individual and family lives. Be that needing time for physical activity, continuing education or to support our families. We want our people to feel empowered to manage their own leave, to create time away from the studio when they need it.

Parental Leave Experience

Our parental leave experience has been designed to ensure all aspects of leave from handover pre-leave to transition back into BVN post-leave, are considered and supportive. We understand implicitly that managing family life can be a challenging time for people re-entering the workplace. We want to add to the joy of starting a family, not add any extra pressure. This is one little way we can provide support.

Primary Carer Leave and Superannuation

In conjunction with our existing policy of 12 weeks paid leave for the primary carer we have added the benefit of super contributions for up to 12 months.

Secondary Carer Leave

BVN provides six weeks paid leave. This allows not only the time for both parents to be at home with their baby after the birth but importantly it offers the opportunity to stagger this leave for when the primary carer decides to re-entre the workforce.

Purchased Leave – Ten Days Each and Every Year.

BVN recognises that taking unpaid leave can place a financial burden on an individual or a family. To help manage cash flow, we’ve implemented our ten day purchased leave option. This gives people up to ten days of holiday time, be that used during the school holidays or to take that six week trip around the world whilst knowing you still have money coming in.

BVN has always been at the forefront of progressive workplace policies in the Architecture and Design field. As champions of change our policy-led reviews are focused on enhancing the BVN experience. We continually review existing initiatives and policies to ensure they're meeting the needs of our people.

They need to be accessible to everyone and recognise that our people are in different phases of their lives. "Balance" looks different to everyone!

BVN’s character is about maintaining our evolving culture based on human needs and aspirations which inevitably improves the collective’s wellbeing.