Seventy-one New Orleans area employers were honored Thursday after coming out on top in the annual competition to identify the region’s top workplaces.
The 2022 Top Workplaces program, sponsored by The Times-Picayune, is based on an anonymous survey of employees who nominated their employers for Top Workplaces awards. Most of the surveying was completed between October 2021 and February 2022.
Woodhouse Day Spa, which has locations in New Orleans and Metairie, was the overall winner of the Small Companies division. That division is for companies with 124 or fewer employees.
In the Mid-Sized division, which includes companies with 125-399 employees, Latter & Blum Property Management Inc. was the top winner. The company manages more than 900 multi-family, single-family and commercial properties in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi.
Harahan-based Laitram LLC, a global leader in the manufacturing of conveyor belts and a holder of more than 1,300 active patents, was the top winner in the Large Companies division.
Representatives from the three companies were joined by those from several dozen other employers in the region who were also recognized during a ceremony at The Times-Picayune’s St. Charles Avenue office in downtown New Orleans.
Several special awards were handed out to employers based on standout scores for employee responses to specific survey statements. A complete rundown of the special awards and other aspects of the competition will be featured in a special section of Sunday’s newspaper.
The contest was conducted in partnership with employee engagement firm Energage of Philadelphia. The annual competition, which is in its eight year, seeks to highlight standout job providers in the region and identify ways organizations can become places where people want to work. It also increases workplace pride and morale among workers.
Winners are chosen based on an anonymous employee survey system that establishes rankings of the top employers in the seven-parish area. For 2022, 70 companies and agencies made the rankings as top workplaces.
Emily Engberg, The Times-Picayune’s advertising director, provided opening remarks at the ceremony, noting that the continued growth of local businesses is a cause that the newspaper and its affiliated NOLA.com website are invested in.
“We all know the last several years have been far from conventional and challenging for many,“ Engberg said. “But, according to your employees, those challenges have not stopped you from proving your dedication to your teams and to your mission. Companies like yours continue to set the bar for excellence year after year and New Orleans would not be the city it is today without your commitment to fostering environments where employees feel valued and motivated.”
Rich Gallagher, chief product officer for Energage, said the firm surveyed more than 25,000 employees to establish this year’s top workplaces. He encouraged the winning companies to maintain focus on building and maintaining a people-first culture within their companies.
Gallagher also said the winners should use the Top Workplaces award to built trust with job seekers.
“The simple answer to why you are here is because your employees told us you deserve to be,” Gallagher said. “Being a Top Workplace means you’ve created culture where employees feel engaged, appreciated and fulfilled. It’s hard work, but you’ve done it.”
Here are the Top Workplaces for 2022
- Laitram LLC
- Creole Cuisine Restaurant Concepts
- Lakeview Regional Medical Center
- Entergy Corp.
- Ochsner Health
- ReNEW Schools
- Harrah’s New Orleans
- Latter & Blum Property Management
- Gallo Mechanical LLC
- Impetus, A Palmisano Company
- 1st Lake Properties
- Gootee Construction Inc.
- Taste Buds Management
- Belle Chasse Academy Inc.
- Rotolo Consultants Inc.
- Ampirical Solutions LLC
- ChenMed
- Dignity Memorial
- The Gray Insurance Company
- LaPorte CPAs & Business Advisors
- Woodward Design + Build
- Northshore Technical Community College
- Avala
- Globalstar Inc.
- HUB International Gulf South
- HRI Properties
- OnPath Federal Credit Union
- Cypress Pointe Surgical Hospital
Source: https://www.nola.com/news/business/article_3069530a-f354-11ec-8798-2f838a099dc9.html
