Delaware's Top Workplaces: At a glance
For the 11th year, The News Journal partnered with Philadelphia-based WorkplaceDynamics, the employee research and consulting firm, to determine Delaware’s Top Workplaces through employee surveys.
In February, The News Journal started running articles and advertisements encouraging people to nominate companies as Top Workplaces. WorkplaceDynamics invited those companies and other organizations in the region – 744 companies in all – with at least 35 employees in Delaware to take the employee survey. Organizations could be public, private, nonprofit, or governmental.
Eighty-three organizations agreed to participate. Those surveyed employ 31,471 people, of which 12,653 responded. This year, 60 Delaware employers scored high enough to earn Top Workplaces honors.
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The employee survey seeks responses on issues like whether new ideas are encouraged, do employees feel appreciated, does their boss care about concerns and foster growth and are they confident in company leadership.
To ensure organizations are playing fair, WorkplaceDynamics runs statistical tests to look for questionable results. It sometimes disqualifies employers based on those tests.
For the rankings, employers are placed into groups of similar size because smaller employers tend to score higher than midsize employers, and midsize employers tend to score higher than large employers.
If you’re wondering why a particular employer isn’t on this year’s list, it could be because the company either chose not to participate in the program or did not score high enough based on the survey results.
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TOP WORKPLACE:Long & Foster Real Estate makes employees feel at home
TOP WORKPLACE:Teamwork drives WSFS's success
TOP LEADER:WSFS CEO Leads through relationship building
TOP WORKPLACE:Employees thrive at Patterson-Schwartz Real Estate
TOP WORKPLACE:New office, same commitment to service at Century 21
TOP WORKPLACE:Del-One CEO: Automation doesn't threaten jobs at credit union
TOP WORKPLACE:Training key at Fabrizio Salon and Spa
TOP WORKPLACE:Law firm honored for leadership
TOP WORKPLACE:Family philosophy behind Marlex Pharmaceuticals' success
TOP LEADER:Nickle Electrical president looks to future of skilled labor
TOP WORKPLACE:It's all about the kids at Exceptional Care for Children