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🏆 10th Best Big Company to Work For 2024 - 'Best Companies'

The Works 📚🎓🎨🚀

The Works. It literally means everything. And whatever your story or background, we’re all about unlocking imagination and making creativity accessible to everyone.

Whether you’re engaging our customers on the frontline or supporting our colleagues behind the scenes, your impact can be profound and far-reaching.

This is more than toys and books and art supplies. This is about inspiring people to read, learn, create and play.

So, with the right passion, it all starts with you.

Our Culture ⭐

The Works is an awesome place to... well, work!

We embrace creativity in all aspects of life, no matter who you are or how you express yourself. We are one team. Supporting each other and working together to tackle any challenge, big or small. You won’t find anyone too proud to roll up their sleeves here, with all hands-on-deck to help inspire our customers to read, learn, create and play more.

From sourcing the next best-selling product to crafting in-store displays, there’s plenty of fun opportunities to get your teeth into. We value your initiative, creativity, and empower you to embrace the responsibility and ownership on offer.

Always willing to lend a hand and cheer each other on. We work together to become one of the nation’s most loved retailers.

Our Purpose 💛

To inspire reading, learning, creativity and play! 📚🎓🎨🚀

Our Values 💙

We are Crafty
We are Caring
We are Can-do

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A Leading Family Friendly Value Retailer

📍 Over 500+ stores in the UK and Ireland

🏬 New stores opened in FY23

👆 Circa 4,000 colleagues playing their part to inspire reading, learning, creativity and play

🏆 Named 10th Best Big Company to Work For 2024 - 'Best Companies'

About The Works

We don’t just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play.

You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects them with a late family member’s memory.

You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark within people, allowing them to unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories.

The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you.

#Itallstartswithyou

Founded in 1981

Co-workers Around 4,000

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