Best Places to Work 2019 Steve Petranik March 29, 2019
How to Build a Best Place to Work Creating a Best Place to Work is not brain surgery, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. This year, only 70 companies and nonprofits in Hawaii made the grade, but the years of effort by each of them to build such a workplace pays off every day. Quicklinks for 2019 Winning Companies: Benefits at a Glance Large Companies Medium Companies Small Companies Those that made the grade this year and every year followed our selection process. First they provided email addresses for their employees to the Best Companies Group, the national experts who vet nominated companies for Hawaii Business Magazine and for over 60 similar programs across the country and internationally. Best Companies Group then conducts a confidential survey of those employees that measures satisfaction and engagement in eight categories. Because the survey is confidential, employees are honest and forthcoming: They reveal the good, the bad and the ugly about the organizations they work for. The results of those surveys account for 75 percent of a company’s score. The other 25 percent of the score is based on the employer questionnaire filled out by the company’s HR managers that details benefits, workplace rules and other factors. Peter Burke, president at Best Companies Group, says this year’s 70 winners have employees whose level of “emotional connection” to their employer is extremely high. That means that on average those employees: