Could you win an ‘Employer of Choice’ competition?

In these times of ever-increasing competition for employees, the need to achieve optimum levels of high quality recruitment and retention of key people has become a top priority for the HR Function.

This need has led many practitioners to focus on becoming ‘Employers of Choice’, or ‘great places to work’. Public competitions have become popular as a vehicle for assessing employee engagement and satisfaction and comparing standards. Many organisations take part without really knowing how well they will compare, however, and most discover that they still have a long way to go before they can succeed in creating a fully engaged workforce. 

employesurveys – a specialist consultancy with over 25 years experience of measuring employees’ perceptions, has been researching the question of just how good an employer has to be and has come up with some interesting conclusions.