If you aren’t employed by one of the 60 companies that made PBN’s 2017 Best Places To Work list, you’re missing a big party. As has been the case for the last few years, the celebration by and about the winners has roughly 700 attendees, complete with noise-makers, lighted hair bands and the odd air horn.
But the party is just the icing on the cake. Really, the great reward is the opportunity to work for some of the best employers in the region. And how do we know that is the case? Because the employees themselves tell us.
The basis for the program is a two-part evaluation of a company. The easy part is a survey of its human resources policies, the structure that can make for a pleasant and rewarding place to work.
But the meat of the evaluation is an anonymous survey of employees. They tell the third party that does the evaluation just how well the company is executing on its policies. The winners you see profiled in this week’s special section are the ones who are doing what they say they should be doing. And the ones with the happiest employees. Lucky them.