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Bob Helbig of Energage<\/p>\nTop Workplaces don\u2019t happen by accident. They are created through a people-first approach to workplace excellence.<\/p>\n
For the eighth year, employee survey company Energage has partnered with the Orlando Sentinel to honor the best places to work in Central Florida.<\/p>\n
The award is verified and earned through an employee survey process. Workplaces where employees offer positive feedback about their experience make the winners list. The survey is strictly confidential, allowing employees to share honest feedback anonymously.<\/p>\n
Energage, based in suburban Philadelphia, administers the survey and analyzes feedback based on responses to 26 questions. The survey asks employees about such factors as pay and benefits, direction, leadership, meaningfulness, and appreciation. Energage scores companies based on the responses. Energage has established benchmarks based on feedback from about 30 million employees over 20 years.<\/p>\n
The award cannot be bought; it is earned. There is no cost to employers to survey their employees. If they choose, organizations can purchase the survey data from Energage. There is no obligation for winners to purchase any product or service.<\/p>\n
Bob Helbig of Energage<\/p>\n
For the 2026 winners list, 5,706 organizations were asked to survey their employees, and 164 agreed to do so. Based on the survey feedback, a record 134 have earned recognition as Top Workplaces in Central Florida.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarning a Top Workplaces award is a celebration of excellence,\u201d Energage CEO Eric Rubino said. \u201cIt serves as a reminder of the vital role a people-first workplace experience plays in achieving success.\u201d<\/p>\n
To qualify for Top Workplaces recognition, employers must have at least 35 workers in the region.\u00a0 Employers are grouped by the overall size of their organization, and the number of employees invited to survey, which might include employees outside of Central Florida. Employers are grouped into similar sizes to best compare similar employee experiences. They are ranked within those groups based on the strength of the survey feedback.<\/p>\n
Survey results are valid only if 35% or more employees respond; employers with fewer than 85 employees have a higher response threshold, requiring responses from at least 30 employees.<\/p>\n
Why might a particular employer not be on the list? Perhaps it chose not to participate, or perhaps it did and employee feedback scores were not strong enough. Energage also runs tests on survey feedback and in some cases may disqualify an organization if, for example, a high number of employees said they felt pressured to answer positively.<\/p>\n
To participate in the 2027 Top Workplaces awards, or for more information, go to the nominations page at orlandosentinel.com\/nominate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Workplaces don\u2019t happen by accident. They are created through a people-first approach to workplace excellence. For the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[558,114,139,141,140,109,76686,65505],"class_list":["post-419323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-business","tag-latest-headlines","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social","tag-social-business","tag-top-workplaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}