One of our participating companies called the Best Companies to Work For survey “the company report card,” and there is no better way to measure what your employees think than have them surveyed by an independent authority.
The magazine regularly takes that role in this and other anonymous surveys.
Benefits continue to be hugely important for potential and existing employees in today’s work environment, where there’s a shortage of employees that continues post-COVID and as we face an exodus of employees to the U.S. mainland.
Our survey of the Best Companies to Work For rightly pays full attention to those benefits, and you can measure what your company provides against those in our survey.
Salary aside, benefits are the second topic of conversation that interviews obviously need to cover. Employees value what adds value to employers also — giving employees training and opportunities for growth.
Equally important to an employee are managers, colleagues and team members — the people who decide everything from their workload to promotions to time off — and who employees see daily.
But the best companies to work for have their own dynamics and their own ways of showing inclusion, making employees feel valued and developing that “family” feeling that counts for so much.
A special word or note of thanks for a job well done should be automatic for managers.
As should an understanding of the need for special consideration in tough times in our employees’ lives such as bereavement. We are all people with families.
And then there is the corporate culture that perpetuates that family feeling.
A monthly list of birthdays? Regular office potlucks? The annual employee appreciation party? A newsletter? Employee discounts?
An unwritten understanding that employees may of necessity sometimes bring their children to the office after school, or during holidays? I think you all know what I am talking about.
For the second time, we are featuring the unique insight of our Partner — the Society for Human Resources Guam Chapter, and we thank SHRM for its participation.
Also within the magazine you’ll see a variety of ways we focus on businesses and their leadership: a close up and personal look at organizations and their leaderships, which executives are newly appointed to which companies and which organizations are bringing attention to their islands through their prowess.
