Still time left to enter the Top Workplaces competition as deadline moved to December

Time is about to run out for South Florida companies to enter the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s Top Workplaces 2023 competition, a scientific survey of employees who rate their workplace environments and company cultures.

But no worries. The nomination deadline has been extended one final time to Dec. 9, 2022.

The survey feedback gives insights to company managements about what makes their organizations unique. And it gives them a fresh take on how they can improve day-to-day and long-term relationships with employees.

This is the ninth year of the South Florida Top Workplaces awards program. So far, more than 225 employers in the tri-county area have signed up to participate. Last year

176 organizations were surveyed, representing

40,271 employees. A total of 128 organizations were recognized.

This year’s program offers some unusual challenges after two years of uncertainty as managements and employees sought to adopt long-term strategies for coping with

COVID-19, and red-flag terms such as the “Great Resignation” and “Quiet Quitting” (becoming less psychologically invested in work) which are growing more prevalent on the employment relations scene.

And here’s another new challenge that was absent last year: Rampant inflation. Workers want raises and better benefits to help them keep pace with the surging cost of living.

Nationwide, Energage, the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s research partner for the project, conducted Top Workplaces surveys for media in 61 markets and surveyed more than 2 million employees at more than 8,000 organizations in 2021.

The rules

Through Dec. 9, employees can nominate their own employer or another private- or public-sector organization as a Top Workplace — and tell us why.

Any organization in the public, private, nonprofit or government sectors with 35 or more employees in South Florida is eligible to participate in the forthcoming program.

The workplaces are evaluated by their employees using a short 24-question survey. The survey period is running from September through January 2023.

The results will be disclosed next spring.

The phone number for nominations is

954-666-0786. To place nominations online, go to