Head of HR / office manager Nat Field proudly displays our Sunday Times 'Best Small Companies' Award. We came number 74 out of loads of entrants. Which is nice, but a bit of a drop from last year when we just missed the top 30. Our scores for 'well-being' let us down, possibly because of the new policy that involves daily sandblasting and corporate taunting for all human work units. This policy will be stepped up until people feel more well.

See – it says on the base, 'providing its people with an outstanding place to work'. So it must be true.