Are you a Top Workplace? It’s time we heard from your employees

What if your employees care about different things than you do?

If the past couple of years of pandemic-influenced workplace turmoil have done anything, they’ve exposed fractures between generational attitudes on work, and they’ve highlighted how important things like benefits and company mission can be in recruiting and retaining employees.

One way to find out what your staff thinks is to ask them.

And because an anonymous survey done by a third party might be more effective than calling your folks up individually, consider nominating your organization for the Pittsburgh PostGazette’s 2022 Top Workplaces program.

Open to any organization with 50 or more employees in the Greater Pittsburgh area — nonprofits and government entities as well as public and private companies — the system involves allowing the Post-Gazette’s research partner, Energage, to poll employees on important topics such as benefits, company direction and management.

Anyone can nominate an organization, either by calling us at 412-428-8020 or going to www.post-gazette.com/nominate. Polling takes place between January and March, and participation is free.

It’s possible that you don’t have a Top Workplace — yet. But all participants will receive results from the surveys, which will give you tools to improve your operations.

Lastyear, Energage polled morethan 16,000 employees at almost 150 organizations in the region as part of the PostGazette’s Top Workplaces program. After the results were tallied, 95 organizations made the final list based on employee assessments of their workplaces.

Those named a Post-Gazette 2022 Top Workplace will be featured in a special section of the newspaper and honored at an event later in the year.

The nomination deadline is Feb. 11.