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Is Working from Home for You? | The ONE Group Recruitment

4 September 2026

Is Working from Home for You?

Home working was not a new concept, but clearly we were all forced to change our working habits drastically during lockdown and embrace it where we hadn’t before.


Marc Kent – Head of Commercial

What has been really clear, is people have proven how quickly they can adapt and how resilient they are.

What is also very clear, everyone’s circumstances are different and it just might not be something that certain people want to do all the time. For me personally, I have worked from home before and will continue to work from home in the future. Do I want to do so 100% of the time? Absolutely NOT.

I have been incredibility lucky over lockdown. Although the working day was at times long & intense, it brought with it a whole load of new challenges to face and adapt to accordingly. On a personal level, my wife gave birth to our 1st baby daughter just before lockdown – so I have been around more, seen her develop and been able to take some of the slack from my wife during a very special time for my family.

Working in a 
sales environment

, where relationships and 

customer service

 is key, coming back to the office for me had an instant positive effect on the collaboration of ideas, sharing information was slicker and activity levels were high. I realised that I had missed the noise of conversations happening around me, working towards a common goal with others and influencing our direction. Being around good people is motivating and positive actions, encourage more with those around you.

Coming back to the office was a big step for me – small things, are BIG things at the moment for everyone I guess. It soon became clear that working back in the office gives you so many positive things, some obvious but some I didn’t even know I needed.​

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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

01
Accountancy & Finance
→
 02
Human Resources
→
 03
Commercial Office
Administration, customer service, project management and more
→
 04
Technology
→
 05
Engineering & Manufacturing
→
 06
Scientific
→
 07
Sales, Marketing & Creative
→
 08
Executive Search
Across all of the above
→

Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

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