As Inc. Magazine’s profile on our 2010 Top Small Company Workplace award winner PortionPac Chemical Corp got a lot of attention in terms of showing the payoff of employee engagement at a manufacturer – an industry that has been especially hard hit in this economy, and which is not typically known for great workplace practices [...]
At Winning Workplaces, we sometimes hear from business leaders that while they acknowledge that happier employees are more productive – and that, in turn, affects revenue and profitability – it can be difficult to tie team building strategies such as special employee awards or allowing workers to bring their dogs to work directly to the balance sheet. [...]
In Winning Workplaces’ Top Small Company Workplaces award application, we ask small businesses whether they engage employees as part of a wellness and fitness program and, if yes, to tell us about how this program works in their organization. Tasty Catering, a Chicago area provider of corporate catering solutions that’s one of our just-announced winners [...]
For months I’ve been sharing employee engagement research trends of Winning Workplaces’ 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces award finalists – the 40 organizations out of nearly 500 that applied for our award this year. Many of those blog posts ended with a reminder to look for the June issue of Inc., which would feature the [...]
I’ve been telecommuting for Winning Workplaces, which is based in the Chicago area, from a home office in Los Angeles since last August. Until a few months ago, we connected for staff meetings every two weeks or so via phone. Since then, we’ve used Skype and it’s been great in terms of communications team building. [...]
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