Our offices
The Gambling
Commission’s main office is in central Birmingham, within easy
reach of Birmingham New Street, Snow Hill and Moor Street
stations. We are 20 minutes from Birmingham International
Airport by train, and are well served by an established road
network.
We are on the fourth floor of Victoria Square House, a listed
building that has been extensively refurbished with a very modern
feel and modern equipment.
Our main office is open plan, and almost everyone, including our
Management Board, are in open plan areas. We have some
larger social spaces for breaks and informal meetings, and a
well-appointed boardroom and meeting area for official
functions.
We also have approximately 45 compliance managers working
across Great Britain. They have all had the communications,
furniture and computing technology they need to work effectively
set up in their homes.
Our approach to healthy working
At the Gambling
Commission we believe that the wellbeing of our people is paramount
and important to our success. With this in mind we regularly
develop new healthy working initiatives – for example, we have
shower facilities installed in our main offices in Birmingham to
encourage people to cycle or walk to work, and we have planned
‘health and wellbeing days’ at our main offices in Birmingham.
We also have in place an Employee Assistance Programme to help
our people deal with difficult circumstances, and a comprehensive
sickness absence policy in the unfortunate event that you are
unwell.
Looking after our environment
We are committed to minimising our environmental impact and to
improving our environment in whatever way we can, within
reasonable financial and other resource limits.
At our offices this includes wide-ranging recycling measures,
including paper, cans, plastic, glass and printer cartridges and we
monitor our paper usage so that we can try to reduce it month on
month. Wherever possible our stationery is purchased from
environmentally friendly sources.
We provide our remote workers with paper shredders so they can
recycle their paperwork more effectively. We are based
literally a couple of minutes from New Street station and encourage
the use of public transport, both for travel to work and for
business purposes.
We also have an informal ‘Green Group’ made up of our employees
where we discuss our targets and how to improve our environmental
measures.
Page last reviewed: May 2011