It starts with a phone that never stopped.
Before Pineapple Partners had a name, our team was already doing the work: supplying care homes short on a Friday night, finding a relief chef an hour before service, and keeping crews of warehouse staff turning up night after night for one of the UK's biggest parcel networks.
We learned this industry the only way it can really be learned. By answering the phone at six in the morning, fixing the problem, and answering it again at ten that night.
We saw what bad agency work costs people.
A care home that can't verify a worker's training isn't just risking an inspection, it's risking the people in its care. A kitchen sent a "chef" who can't hold a knife loses a service it can never sell again. A depot let down by six no-shows misses targets real customers are waiting on.
Most of that damage comes from one place: agencies that treat vetting as paperwork and workers as numbers. So we built our whole operation around the opposite idea. Compliance checked properly before the first shift, and workers treated well enough that they keep choosing to work for us. Reliable staff aren't found, they're kept.
One agency, five sectors, on purpose.
Care, catering, cleaning, logistics and admin look like different worlds, but they share one truth: the shift must be covered, safely, tonight. The discipline is identical. Deep local pools, real vetting, honest answers about what we can and can't fill.
Pineapple Partners is the staffing arm of Cucumber Logistics Ltd, part of the same family as the Pineapple Talent and Cucumber Partners recruitment brands, which means the backing of an established compliance operation and our own workforce platform behind every booking, from DBS tracking to timesheets.
What we hold ourselves to
Compliance first
Nobody goes on shift until the checks are done. Not once, not as a favour, not at peak.
Straight answers
If we can't fill it, we say so immediately, so you still have time to make another plan.
Workers are the product
Paid right, paid on time, treated like people. That's why ours turn up when others' don't.
Work with people who've lived it.
Whether you're a care provider, a kitchen, a depot or an office that needs dependable cover, or a worker who wants an agency that treats you properly, we'd love to talk.
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