SYRACUSE — BizEventz, Inc., a division of the Business Journal News Network, will honor 22 area companies as CNY Best Places to Work during an awards breakfast scheduled for May 28 at SRC Arena at Onondaga Community College. The winners are grouped into two categories based on employee count. The categories include companies with between […]
SYRACUSE — BizEventz, Inc., a division of the Business Journal News Network, will honor 22 area companies as CNY Best Places to Work during an awards breakfast scheduled for May 28 at SRC Arena at Onondaga Community College.
The winners are grouped into two categories based on employee count. The categories include companies with between five and 50 employees and those with 51 or more employees.
Firms with four or fewer employees were not eligible to participate.
The recognition breakfast will include a segment revealing each firm’s ranking in its respective category based on its score as tabulated by RMS, says Joyl Clance, manager of BizEventz.
RMS is short for Research & Marketing Strategies, Inc., a marketing and research firm based in Baldwinsville.
The winners initially submitted information through the websites of BizEventz, Inc. or The Central New York Business Journal, both of which are part of what is now branded as the Business Journal News Network.
RMS then requested email addresses for the companies’ employees.
“From there, RMS then [administered] a survey that all the employees at that company [were] encouraged to complete,” Clance says.
The survey, which employees completed confidentially, included questions about their working status with a company (either full time or part time); how they feel about their respective jobs, managers, and intra-office communication, she adds. RMS then analyzes the data.
“They’re really analyzing and looking at those responses and piecing that together to determine is that company creating a work environment that’s productive for its employees, that’s enjoyable for its employees,” Clance says.
The entire process seeks to help a business decrease potential turnover and help its employees be more productive, she adds.
BizEventz will present a plaque to each of the winners and a specially designed plaque to the firms that achieved the highest tabulated score in each category, Clance says.
The winning firms also get a stamp that they can use on their email signatures and marketing materials indicating their recognition as a 2014 Best Places to Work, she adds.
Besides the plaque and stamp, the winning firms can also use the RMS analysis for their own review.
“They’re given what’s called a dashboard report, which is the actual results from the surveying and process that their employees completed. So they get to take that report back to work with them … and have that to help them to potentially increase their ranking next year,” Clance says.
BizEventz will invite area companies to participate in 2015. Any firm that fits in the employee-count categories and is based in the 16-county region that BizEventz covers is eligible to submit its name for consideration, Clance says.
The 16-county region covers Central New York, the Southern Tier, Mohawk Valley, and the North Country.
Contact Reinhardt at ereinhardt@cnybj.com
