Molly Johnson-Jones

Hi, I'm Molly and I run Flexa: the careers platform designed to help people and companies find their perfect match - powered by verified data.The discovery phase of hiring has been ignored for too long - and at one point, it almost cost me my career.I lost a job after asking to work from home one day a week. It made me realise that people have no easy way to see what companies are really like, or to find workplaces that align with their lives, ambitions, and values. The hiring market simply isn’t transparent. That’s where Flexa comes in. Flexa turns employer brands into discoverable reality. Imagine being able to search for companies the way you’d browse for somewhere to stay. Instead of “cottage with a hot tub”, it’s “company with hybrid working and brilliant career progression”. You decide what matters - and we show you who actually offers it.For companies, Flexa is the operating system for employer brand. We don’t just make you discoverable in millions of searches by aligned talent - we show you how your brand performs and how to strengthen it. Built on more than 2 billion data points, Flexa analyses what talent wants, how they search, and what they think of what you have to offer.We work with forward-thinking brands like Mars, Huel, Airbus, and Microsoft to turn their employer brands into dynamic, searchable profiles browsed by over 4 million people, often generating more engagement and traffic than Glassdoor.Flexa owns the discovery moment - where attention, trust, and curiosity are built. Our data is reshaping how companies attract and retain talent, and how people discover workplaces that genuinely align with their priorities and values.I care about rebuilding the relationship between people and companies - through honesty, clarity, and proof. Because great companies deserve attention, and great talent deserves a best-in class experience.

Co-Founder & CEO

I fell completely out of love with LinkedIn. Five years of posting almost every weekday turned into a break over Christmas, and then the whole of January... then a real reluctance to start again in February. 

Seeing the change in engagement, original thought, and authenticity on this platform meant that the amount of work it took to turn up here daily, create quality content, and engage in thoughtful discussions just wasn't worth it anymore to me. 

Plus, the state of the world and social media's shift towards only encouraging binary discussions, ignoring the nuance that the majority of the world exists in, and the rise of individualism meant that what was once a community slipped into feeling more like a battleground.

I have no doubt that my disillusionment led to less love and care being put into my content, and in turn that led to less engagement and valuable conversation, but there's still, undeniably, been a huge shift in the kind of conversations that are rewarded on this platform. Like anything, it's a mixture of factors that are impossible to separate. 

However, it was my Birthday yesterday and it made me think about what I want to be and to achieve this year. 

One of the things I want to keep being is stubborn (in the right situations...!) and determined. I know that there are still so many people out there that want to engage with topics that aren't LinkedIn cheat sheets, pictures of billboards with motivational quotes, or AI-generated slop. 

So, in a bid to attempt to rekindle some form of love for this platform, I'd love to understand what you'd like me to post about. Whether you've followed me for a while, or this is your first time engaging with me, I'd like to know what you'd like to consume... so please vote with your reaction emojis!

👏 The future of work and flexible working
👍 Equality and societal observations
🫴 Startups and entrepreneurship
😂 Culture and observations about work
❤️ Honest stories about my experiences 

Or if there's anything you think of that isn't here, please just tell me in the comments. Thank you for your collective brains 🙏

CEO & Co-Founder @ Flexa | Future of Work Speaker & Creator | Employer Brand | DEI | Talent Intelligence

We see a huge uptick in people looking for a new company in January. Probably because “New year, new me” isn't just limited to people's personal lives; and many people want change in their professional lives too. 

Here are some companies actively hiring right now, all of whom go above and beyond to show exactly what it’s like to work there:

📡 Vodafone - with a WFA scheme and a hybrid working setup

🌊 Anglian Water Services - with a range of alternative working patterns

🔗 Boomi - offering amazing family friendly benefits

🛡️ BAE Systems - who are open to compressed hours and part-time candidates

🍺 The HEINEKEN Company - with gym memberships and financial coaching

🏗️ Mott MacDonald - offering tax free childcare and on-site yoga classes

🎮 Improbable - with skilled worker visas and equity packages

🧠 Tyk - offering unlimited annual leave and sabbaticals

🚆 SilverRail - with L&D and travel opportunities

📊 Connected Places Catapult - working a 9-day fortnight

🌍 Flash Pack - with total pay transparency and stock options

🏦 Brit Insurance - with a great pension and volunteer days

📈 EY - offering clear career progression and mentoring

🎁 Not On The High Street - with true autonomy and team-building days

🧩 SAPI - with a dog friendly office and equity packages

Discover these and more intentional employers on Flexa 👇

We’ve just come back from our company-wide shutdown over Christmas. Nearly two full weeks, the whole business off at the same time.

Here are some other brilliant companies offering company shutdown periods alongside annual leave:

🎄 Peak PEO | B Corp™

📘 Bradshaw Advisory

🌍 ClientEarth

🧠 Tyk

🌐 Veramed

☀️ Picnic

🎓 Oak National Academy

🛠 MBDA

💼 tms

🚴 Deliveroo



Discover these and more intentional companies on Flexa

#futureofwork #employeebenefits #burnoutprevention

Work feels different when it’s tied to a mission you actually believe in. Here are some mission-driven companies featured on Flexa:

🐾 Battersea
Rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming dogs and cats, and pushing for lasting change in animal welfare.

🐕 Support Dogs
Training assistance dogs to help people with autism, epilepsy and physical disabilities live more independent lives.

⚖️ ClientEarth
Using the law to protect the planet, hold governments and corporations to account, and drive systemic environmental change.

🧩 Patchwork Health
Fixing workforce gaps in healthcare by making it easier for clinicians to work flexibly and sustainably across the NHS.

🧠 Unmind
Helping organisations support mental health proactively, not just when someone reaches crisis point.

🌱 Livestock Information Ltd
Improving animal health, welfare and food system resilience through better data across the livestock sector.

🌍 Cool Farm
Supporting farmers and food companies to measure and reduce their environmental impact, from soil to supply chain.

🏗 NHBC
Raising standards in housebuilding to create safer, higher-quality homes for people across the UK.

✈️ Airbus
Building the future of aerospace while investing heavily in sustainability, innovation and long-term skills.

🛵 Deliveroo
Connecting people to food they love while evolving how flexible work can function at scale.

📡 Vodafone
Using connectivity to support economic inclusion, digital access and social impact worldwide.

⚡ OVO
Accelerating the transition to clean, affordable energy and helping customers reduce their carbon footprint.

🚆 Northern
Keeping communities connected across the North while modernising transport and access to work.

🍺 The HEINEKEN Company
Brewing responsibly, investing in communities, and setting ambitious targets on sustainability and inclusion.

Looking for a company that aligns with your purpose?

Check out these and more mission-driven employers on Flexa 👇

Over the past two years, we’ve seen a sharp rise in candidates actively filtering for companies based on whether employers offer meaningful mental health support, and whether it’s real rather than just lip-service.

To help cut through the spoof, here’s a list of organisations on Flexa with verified mental health support, based on what they actually offer:

🧠 Virtalent
💬 Puzzel
🌱 Cool Farm
🏗 Leighton
🎨 Clock
📐 Cahill Design Consultants
💛 Tangle Teezer Ltd
📊 Hurree
🧪 Redgate Software
👩‍💼 EY
🌍 SAP
📡 Vodafone
☎️ BT Group
👗 ASOS.com
✈️ BAE Systems
💻 Microsoft UK
🔁 Boomi
🎮 tombola

Discover more companies based on what you care about on Flexa 👇

Ad | Burnout gets talked about so casually now that I think we’ve lost sight of what it actually is.

Real burnout is severe, and when it hits, it can wipe people out for months and even hospitalise them.

That’s the version that should worry SMEs.

Because when genuine burnout happens, it’s expensive. £21k per employee per year expensive (BenefitsPro, 2025). When burnout happens, the fallout is huge: lost knowledge, long recovery times, disruption to teams, and cultural impacts.

What makes this harder is that traditional health insurance only steps in once someone is already unwell. 

This is why I’ve been working with Bupa Business UK and YuLife. They’re approaching this proactively, rather than reactively: treat the early-stage signs seriously before they spiral, and make prevention something people actually do.
Fast clinical support when you need it, and daily engagement that fits into the day rather than becoming another task. And the fact that 1 in 2 members use the YuLife app daily suggests something important: if you design prevention properly, people will actually use it.

For SMEs, that matters, because stopping one real case saves months of disruption… and a huge amount of money and stress.

Burnout shouldn’t be the default vocabulary for feeling overwhelmed, but it also shouldn’t be something we only acknowledge once someone is already falling apart. 

More on how Bupa Business UK and YuLife are doing that here https://lnkd.in/eR7HwJiu

Most EVPs are built on what leaders think employees want, not what they actually want - and that's a problem

In 2026, the companies that will win the war for talent are the ones using data to understand their people. Not hunches, not trends - real, actionable insights about what matters most.

We've analysed over 2 billion data points from Flexa, and three trends caught my attention:

📈 Demand for benefits in London doubled in 12 months 
🏠 Parents wanting remote-first roles up 43% 
🌈 LGBTQIA+ demand for diversity up 50% in 6 months

This isn't what people might want. It's what they're actively searching for right now.

This year, my newsletter is shifting focus towards data. Because having a strong EVP in 2026 isn't just about good policies anymore. It's about using data to guide smarter, more intentional decisions.

In this week's newsletter, I'm breaking down:
💡 Why data matters more than ever for your EVP 
📈 How to use data to improve employee retention 
🔧 4 practical ways to start making data-driven decisions 
🎯 A sneak peek at our 2026 Insights Report (coming soon!)

Because data turns your EVP from a guessing game into a strategic advantage.


#EVP #EmployerBranding #TalentStrategy #FutureOfWork #HR

Hello and welcome back to my newsletter! I write about the future of work, flexible working, startups, and DEI. If you've been forwarded this newslett

Open article: Why data will define the strongest EVPs in 2026 by Molly Johnson-Jones • 8 min read

Why data will define the strongest EVPs in 2026

Ad | I see millions of data points about what makes people stay or leave their companies, and so many organisations get their approach to reward and benefits wrong. 

More often than not, managers react when they realise someone is leaving, rather than keeping an open dialogue about what makes them tick.


Tech’s Hidden Health Costs (2026), a new report from Bupa UK and @YuLife really added to my thinking about proactivity versus reactivity.

😮‍💨 33% of tech SME employees experienced mental fatigue (YouGov, 2025)

😱 69% delay seeking care because of workload pressure

😵‍💫 And 70% of leaders experienced poor mental health in the past year (BIMA Tech Inclusion & Diversity Report, 2025)


Managing my health while building a company means that I know firsthand that preventing health crises is far easier than recovering from them.

But here's what else the research shows: most workplace health benefits fail because of the engagement gap. 18% of businesses offer health insurance (FCA Financial Lives Survey, 2024), but only 1 in 10 employees use preventative care (Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, England, 2023/4)

Traditional benefits don't tend to fit into real working life, so when companies close that engagement gap - making prevention part of the daily routine, not an afterthought - the results compound across retention, productivity, and culture.
The full report breaks down what's working to prevent burnout before it costs you your best people. 

Worth a read if you're building a team that can actually sustain what you're building, download here: https://lnkd.in/en5Fcd9E

#burnout #workplacetransparency #healthinsurance

Brand partnership • CEO & Co-Founder @ Flexa | Future of Work Speaker & Creator | Employer Brand | DEI | Talent Intelligence

Eviden

Cloudreach was acquired by Atos, which split off into 2 businesses, one of which is Eviden (where Cloudreach sits) - hence the change on here! 

My role has not changed other than being appointed HR rep for the NEAP Shadow Board; a group which is linked up to the Senior Leadership to work on key initiatives and liaise on key decisions within the business.

See Cloudreach role for other responsibilities

Talent Acquisition Partner | NEAP Shadow Board Member for HR

Cloudreach, an Eviden business

Hiring Cloud Architecture, Engineering Development and Advisory professionals (AWS, Azure and GCP) across the UK and EMEA.

Led on various improvement projects such as new interviewer training, candidate experience, and recruitment process improvements such as improving role intakes and sourcing sprints. 

AWS Cloud Certified ✅

Cloudreach are the world’s leading independent multi-cloud services company and go-to strategic partner for Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. With over 10 years of cloud native experience, Cloudreach delivers the promise of cloud and drives extraordinary value for customers via our unmatched depth and breadth of expertise in cloud technologies.

#keepitcloudy

Talent Acquisition Partner

Helsing

Supported Helsing's growth from 0 to circa 100 employees leading to a Series A funding round of over €100m.

Hired for Software Engineers (Backend, Frontend, GIS, Database Systems and Field Applications) across a variety of technologies (C++, Java, Python, Rust and more). 

Also supported with recruitment process and system improvements such as end of process debriefs, interviewer training and monthly retros.

Helsing is a new type of security and artificial intelligence company.

Our purpose is to attain technology leadership so that democratic societies are free to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards.

We're building a real-time platform for information processing in the defence, intelligence and security domains, to aid sense making for faster and more reliable decisions

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Tech & SW at Helsing via Scede

Scede

*See roles with Helsing and sennder for more information about those projects*

Embedded recruitment business where we supported customers to scale their teams during key growth phases. Typically working with seed and early-tech start-ups across Europe

No matter what phase of growth you're at, we deliver the right mix of people, processes and practices to hit your talent goals. How we do it, is flexible - and designed to give you what you need, when you need it.

Since launch in 2013, we've partnered with over 50 founders and their teams across Europe. We've helped to scale 10 billion $ unicorns and 12 tech companies pre-acquisition or IPO; giving us deep insight into what it takes to supercharge your talent efforts - or start them from scratch.

Our focus, above all, is on delivering impact; operating a "one-team" approach with our partners and making hiring a success for them.

Want to build an incredible team together? Let's talk. Drop me a direct message here on LinkedIn, or reach out to us at any time via hello@scede.io.

Senior Principal Consultant

sennder

Short engagement via Scede to provide support to the Backend Engineer pipeline - recruiting for Python Engineers and Lead Architects in Berlin.

sennder is a leading digital road freight forwarder in continental Europe, linking large commercial shippers with small freight carriers. With its in-house-developed platform, sennder provides a new level of automation, transparency, and efficiency to the European €300 billion road freight market, which until now has been dependent on paper, phone and fax and characterized by multi-layer subcontracting. sennder’s digital connection to over 7,500 vehicles in all segments allows for almost unlimited capacities, no matter what time of the day. sennder digitalizes the truckload-shipping ecosystem by providing mobile apps to drivers, fleet management tools to carrier managers and logistics management solutions to shippers. Real-time booking, a designated contact person always on hand, as well as precise live tracking, bring full transparency to any logistics supply chain. By integrating directly with the shippers’ Transport Management and Freight Management Systems via APIs and by cutting the multiple middlemen, sennder increases efficiency and reduces cost for all

Talent Acquisition Partner via Scede

NTT Ltd.

Talent Acquisition Partner for one of the World's Leading Technology Companies, covering EMEA (UK&I, FR, DE, ESP, Benelux, Nordics) and some of the US (New York, Omaha)

The combined capabilities of 28 remarkable companies have created one of the World's largest ICT companies (by revenue) - NTT Ltd, a leading technology services provider.

We employ over 40,000 people across 57 countries, working together to deliver sustainable outcomes to businesses and the world. Innovation is part of our DNA - We strive to move forward, challenge the status quo and drive excellence through the technologies we integrate and the services we deliver around the world. The result is connected cities, connected factories, connected healthcare, connected agriculture, connected conservation, connected mobility, and connected sport.

Together, we enable the connected future.

Hidden

Welcome to Hidden. A new model for Talent. Creating talent and culture strategies to make a better working world. 

http://www.hidden.io 

Current Clients include: 
Wunderman          
https://www.wunderman.com/

Splash Worldwide       
https://splashworldwide.com/

MRM McCann
https://mrm-mccann.co.uk/

Aesop Agency
https://aesopagency.com/

MullenLowe
https://www.mullenlowegroup.com/

Get in touch! - Rajiv@hidden.io | 07877 872 577

Candidate Success Manager

Cognitive Group | Microsoft Talent Solutions

Cognitive Group enable organisations to successfully implement Microsoft Solutions by attracting and developing the best talent within the market, and connecting that talent to the most exciting Microsoft projects.

We work with all Microsoft technologies, including: Azure; Power BI, Dynamics 365 for Customer Service, Field Service, Project Service Automation, Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations; AX; Dynamics CRM; Dynamics ERP. 

Typical roles include: Business Change Project Manager; Business Intelligence Specialist; Test Management; Solution Architect; Tech Consultant; Business Analyst; CRM/ERP Trainers; Infrastructure/Integration Architects.

We believe it is our responsibility to do all we can to grow the channel through diversifying, developing and attracting new talent to the market. We work with the Microsoft community to organise events such as Women in Dynamics and Programme leadership initiatives.

Microsoft Cloud Talent Consultant | Azure | Data and AI | Microsoft Stack

Eden Smith Limited

Eden Smith is a specialist data & analytics staffing and consulting business based in central London. Incorporated with the primary objective to support businesses and help job seekers make sense of the #BigDataRevolution.

Realising and understanding this market needs more than a generalist recruitment job matching service, Eden Smith proactively partners with expert big data and analytics companies who can offer professional advice and support. Our unique ecosystem gives us a much larger network and enables us to facilitate introductions to those best aligned to provide solutions, whether its primary objective is to engage talent or deliver larger scale projects.

We are here to listen, to share market information, facilitate introduction, expose and match talent with opportunity, and generally make sense of what is available to us all within this dynamic and exciting market. With the increased demand for highly skilled data experts clients are being forced to adopt more innovative resourcing strategies. We understand the challenges you face.

Consultant - Data Engineering and Analytics

The Peoples Agency

Recruitment Consultant

Over the past decade in recruitment, I've navigated everything from high-energy agency roles to the strategic challenges of internal TA positions. My journey has been rich with experiences in tech and leadership hiring, including the nuanced task of C-level placements.

What drives me? A simple yet powerful goal: to make the recruitment process as smooth and effective as possible. This involves not just matching skills to roles but also understanding the bigger picture – how each hire can shape the future of a company.

Staying current with the latest trends, including technological advancements, has been crucial in refining recruitment processes and strategies. It's all about balancing the new with the tried-and-true, ensuring every hiring decision is both data-informed and human-centred.

I've led projects aimed at improving interviewer techniques and streamlining recruitment workflows, always with a focus on efficiency and the candidate experience.

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