Watch Live: Top workplaces in San Antonio announced

“If COVID taught america anything, it’s that asking questions and listening to employees is captious to navigating this caller satellite of work,” said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. “More than ever, you request to beryllium much intentional astir your culture.”

This marks the 13th twelvemonth the Express-News has partnered with Philadelphia-based Energage to fertile the Top Workplaces successful the San Antonio metro area. The instauration of the programme is simply a technological survey of employees who complaint their workplace culture. The feedback besides gives companies insights astir what makes them unique.

Surveying began successful March, erstwhile quality articles and promotions encouraged nominations for Top Workplaces consideration. In all, 1,282 employers successful the portion were invited to person their employees instrumentality the survey. Any enactment was eligible to participate, provided it had astatine slightest 35 employees successful metro San Antonio. Employers could beryllium public, private, nonprofit, oregon governmental. There is nary outgo to participate the Top Workplaces program.

Combined, the companies surveyed for the 2021 programme employed 48,597 radical successful metro San Antonio. Of employees who received questionnaires, 24,405 responded, either connected insubstantial oregon online. For 2021, 94 employers earned designation arsenic Top Workplaces.

The worker engagement survey of 24 questions gathers responses regarding issues relating to workplace culture:

•  Alignment — wherever the institution is headed, its values, cooperation, effectual meetings
•  Coaching — managers attraction astir concerns, are helpful, promote worker development
•  Connection — employees consciousness appreciated, enactment is meaningful, moving astatine afloat potential, consciousness informed
•  Engagement — productivity, retention, recruiting
•  Leadership — assurance successful institution leaders
•  Performance — execution, open-mindedness, innovation, clued-in leadership
•  The Basics — pay, benefits, work/life flexibility, training, expectations

Employers that people precocious capable are recognized arsenic Top Workplaces. Employers are ranked wrong size groups to accurately comparison results. Energage besides determines peculiar grant winners based connected standout scores connected circumstantial survey topics.

Wonder wherefore a peculiar institution was not connected the list? Perhaps it chose not to participate, oregon it did not people good capable successful the survey. Energage sometimes disqualifies employers based connected questionable results detected done statistical tests it runs to guarantee organizations are accurately administering the survey.

To nominate an enactment for the 2022 program, delight sojourn mysanantonio.com/nominate.

Dr. Nazzy Pakpour, an adjunct prof of biology astatine Cal State East Bay, hosts a Zoom gathering with chap members of the Alliance for the Black Community (ABC), astatine her location connected Friday, February 5, 2021, successful Woodland, Calif. Pakpour is 1 of the founders of ABC, a field radical that is calling attraction to the racist, eugenics-influenced probe of an economics prof there.

Yalonda M. James, STAFF / The Chronicle