Support

Caring and supportive coworkers

You might be drawn to warm, tight-knit environments where people naturally look after one another. In these workplaces, team members tend to celebrate successes together and step up during challenging times. The culture typically centres around genuine collaboration and camaraderie, with regular opportunities for meaningful connection. Work flows through shared efforts, creating an atmosphere where supporting colleagues becomes a natural part of daily operations.

Companies that care about support

Sonder Sonder is a data-driven, human-first workplace wellbeing startup. Its platform helps companies take care of their people with 24/7 services to support mental health, physical health and safety. Sonder is used by some of Australia’s biggest brands like Woolworths, Commonwealth Bank, NRMA, Marley Spoon and more.

Mediabrands We are Mediabrands, a client-first, consulting-led, community-driven group of 13,000 media and marketing specialists in over 130 countries on a mission to ensure our clients win in the marketplace. Through our portfolio of brands, and culture of collaboration, we offer the media and marketing capabilities it takes to invest smarter and grow our client’s businesses now and in the future.

Mad Paws Mad Paws is Australia’s largest online pet care marketplace. At the core of our business, they connect Pet Owners with trusted, local, and vetted Pet Sitters. Since starting in 2015, they’ve grown our community to more than 600,000 pets and 20,000 approved and verified petcare workers. Whether a Pet Owner is planning a holiday, taking a weekend away, or searching for Pet Day Care, Mad Paws will assist them in finding the right carer.

Lumi Lumi takes the guesswork out of small business funding by offering small business loans from $5,000 to $500,000 with terms between 3 to 36 months. They’re shaking up small business lending by eliminating lengthy processes and sneaky, hidden fees. It’s all about total transparency and setting high standards for the fintech industry worldwide. Lumi might be a young fintech (founded in 2018), but have been awarded the 2023 Best Workplace Diversity Award by FinTech Australia and the 2022 Empowering Innovation Affie Award, recognizing their positive outcomes achieved through disruptive innovation. They also ranked in the top #3 on the 2024 Australian Financial Review BOSS Best places to work in Banking, Superannuation and Financial services list as well as #36 among the fastest-growing technology companies in Australia in the 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Australia.

Atlassian Armed with a credit card and a dream, university friends Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar set out to create Atlassian in 2002. Now, we’re a team of 11,000+ supporting an international group of 300,000+ customers. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Trello and Loom to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned. Using those tools, our customers and teams have helped put the Mars Curiosity Rover into space, develop the cochlear implant, and built thousands of products launched to millions of customers around the world.

SunDrive SunDrive is a solar technology company based in South Sydney, Australia. They are creating unique solutions to reduce the cost of high-efficiency solar cells, whilst enhancing their performance and sustainability by utilising more abundant materials. We've grown from a small PhD project in a garage to producing some of the most efficient solar cells ever made in the world.

Winning Group The Winning Group isn't just a retail business as you might know us; we are a leading technology and logistics company and a premium retailer. We are a multi-award winning fourth generation Australian family owned business, whose entities include Winning Appliances, Appliances Online, Winning Services, Andoo, ORA, Heelix, Rogerseller, Spence & Lyda and Home Clearance.

Spriggy Spriggy is a pocket money app and card, helping parents and children manage their money together. Kids get their own prepaid VISA card and parents can track their child’s spending, set saving goals and organise pocket money payments – all in the app.

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Support and ways of working

Here are a few things you might expect if you’re working as part of a team that values support:

Mentorship program to support new hires and junior team members
Frequent team lunches, celebrations and social outings
Open-door policy that encourages transparent communication
Peer recognition program to celebrate achievements and contributions
Team-based goal setting and problem-solving sessions
Wellness initiatives like group fitness classes or mindfulness sessions
Volunteer days where the team supports local community causes.

Interview questions to ask about support

Want to know if the team you’re talking to cares about support? These interview questions can get you started.

What types of team-building activities or social gatherings do you organise?
How do you make sure new starters are onboarded?
Can you share a recent example of how the team works to support each other?

Frequently asked questions