Journal Sentinel accepting nominations for Top Workplaces

Nominations are being accepted for the Journal Sentinel’s Top Workplaces program, which celebrates the best places to work in southeast Wisconsin.

In partnership with Energage, formerly known as WorkplaceDynamics, the Journal Sentinel will spend the next few months surveying tens of thousands of employees at participating small, medium and large employers about a host of issues: leadership, compensation, work environment, communication and other factors.

Companies and organizations (public, private, nonprofit or government) that have 50 or more employees in the 10county southeastern Wisconsin area — Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washington, Ozaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, Sheboygan, Jefferson or Dodge — are eligible.

Anyone can nominate a company or organization, and those nominated will be asked to have their employees participate in the confidential online surveys at no cost. The surveys involve about two dozen questions and take just a few minutes for employees to complete.

Energage will then analyzes the results and conduct the rankings. Employers are ranked within three categories based on size: small (fewer than 150 employees), midsize (150-499 employees) and large (500 or more).

Energage asks employees to respond to a set of statements about their own workplaces. Each of the statements has been tested to ensure it has a high correlation with how employees feel about the place they work. The statements help assess employees’ views on organizational health, their own job as well as employee engagement.

Last year, nearly 1,800 organizations were invited to participate, 247 were included in the final Energage surveys, and responses were obtained

from more than 62,000 employees in southeast Wisconsin.

After evaluating those, Energage chose 150 employers as Top Workplaces.

To nominate an employer for the program, go to www.jsonline.com/

nominate or call (414) 376-5560. Nominations are welcome through Oct. 19.

Results will be released in the spring at a breakfast gala and in special sections of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and JSOnline.com.