The people
A team of experienced creative comms experts from predominantly working class backgrounds.
CHANGE
WHO WE ARE
OUR BEST IN CLASS TEAM
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At Work & Class, we hire brilliant creative and comms professionals from working class backgrounds at every level. As we grow, we’re committed to keeping at least 80% of our team working class.
That’s intentional. The wider creative industries remain disproportionately middle class, with people from more privileged backgrounds overrepresented. We want to help redress that imbalance, creating opportunities for working class talent and bringing different lived experiences into the room.
Our team combines decades of experience delivering multi-channel campaigns with an understanding of audiences the industry too often overlooks or underestimates.
That’s intentional. The wider creative industries remain disproportionately middle class, with people from more privileged backgrounds overrepresented. We want to help redress that imbalance, creating opportunities for working class talent and bringing different lived experiences into the room.
Our team combines decades of experience delivering multi-channel campaigns with an understanding of audiences the industry too often overlooks or underestimates.
Agency founder
meet laura burch
I grew up on a council estate with parents who were on benefits for most of my childhood. When they weren’t on benefits, my mum was a cleaner and my dad sold newspapers at White City station. I didn’t go to university because I couldn’t afford to live away from home.
When I somehow found myself working in PR, no one I met spoke like me, grew up like me, or lived a life like I had. So, I quickly learned to change the way I spoke and presented myself to fit in, to be taken seriously and to progress.
Over 20 years I built a successful career in PR and comms, working my way up to managing director for an integrated creative agency. But I am still an anomaly in this world. While there has been an increased (and much-needed) focus on DE&I across the industry, class is rarely part of the conversation, yet it intersects with every aspect of diversity.
When I somehow found myself working in PR, no one I met spoke like me, grew up like me, or lived a life like I had. So, I quickly learned to change the way I spoke and presented myself to fit in, to be taken seriously and to progress.
Over 20 years I built a successful career in PR and comms, working my way up to managing director for an integrated creative agency. But I am still an anomaly in this world. While there has been an increased (and much-needed) focus on DE&I across the industry, class is rarely part of the conversation, yet it intersects with every aspect of diversity.
The idea of Work & Class was born out of a desire to change all that. To put class firmly on the agenda, and to help working class people feel seen, heard and valued.
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