As Connecticut companies fight over a limited talent pool, offering a quality work environment with good perks and benefits and a path toward advancement is becoming more important than ever.
Indeed, talent attraction and retention isn’t just becoming part of companies’ strategic plans, it’s become a primary focus.
If you’re an employer looking for new ways to attract top talent, we’ve got a cheat sheet for you.
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As Connecticut companies fight over a limited talent pool, offering a quality work environment with good perks and benefits and a path toward advancement is becoming more important than ever.
Indeed, talent attraction and retention isn’t just becoming part of companies’ strategic plans, it’s become a primary focus.
If you’re an employer looking for new ways to attract top talent, we’ve got a cheat sheet for you.
Today, we are revealing our 2020 Best Places to Work rankings, and if you read winners’ company profiles you’ll better understand the culture and types of benefits and perks that engender employee loyalty and appreciation.
Our winners are vetted and chosen by the Best Companies Group, a third-party research firm based out of Harrisburg, Penn. You can read more about them below, but each year, along with the list of winners, they provide survey results that show some of the perks most commonly offered by the companies that make our Best Places to Work list. Of the 41 companies that qualified for this year’s competition, the survey found:
•88% match employee contributions to an employee’s retirement savings plan account;
•68% pay at least 75 percent of their employees’ health insurance premiums;
•71% allow employees additional paid time off for community service activities/volunteer work;
•78% offer telecommuting options while 60% off flexible hours or a compressed work week:
•76% provide fitness and/or wellness programs or benefits.
Beyond the perks, our Best Places to Work also had employees who prized their work environment. Of the employees surveyed from this year’s winning companies:
•91% said they understand their companies’ long-term strategy and have confidence in their organizations’ leadership;
•95% said they like the work they do;
•89% said they look forward to going to work each day;
•77% said they receive fair pay for the work they perform;
•78% said there was room for advancement at their company.
So, after reading that, how does your company stack up? As much as this special section aims to celebrate this year’s group of winners (which we did recently at Farmington Gardens in Farmington), it’s also meant to be a training tool for other employers, to learn new ways to create an engaged workforce.
At the end of the day, no matter what industry you’re in, workers are the most important asset to any company. The employer’s challenge is to retain the best and brightest, and as you read the profiles in the pages that follow, competition for talent is intense.
Greg Bordonaro, Editor
Large Companies
Family atmosphere, employer perks make Consigli a top workplace
Edward Jones provides its advisors a second-career opportunity
Shawmut Design and Construction
Comcast — Western New England Region
Schimenti Construction Company
Small/Medium Companies
Transparency, role clarity engender employee loyalty at Cooperative Systems
Saisystems International builds a values-based workplace
Connecticut Wealth Management LLC
Hartford Area Habitat for Humanity
Preferred Brands International Inc.
Clarity Software Solutions Inc.
