{"id":236619,"date":"2026-04-06T00:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236619\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T00:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:50:43","slug":"austin-top-workplaces-nominations-open-for-2025-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236619\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Top Workplaces nominations open for 2025 awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you found a great place to work, where employees are listened to and have an opportunity to develop? If so, we want to hear about it.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin American-Statesman has been honoring the best organizations across the region for 17 years through its <a href=\"https:\/\/topworkplaces.com\/award\/statesman\/2025\/500-plus\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Workplaces awards<\/a>. Yours could be next.<\/p>\n<p>Any organization in the metro area with 50 or more employees \u2014 be it a public or private company, a nonprofit or a government agency \u2014 is eligible to take part. The <a href=\"https:\/\/topworkplaces.com\/award\/statesman\/2025\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">standout employers<\/a> will be honored this fall for their outstanding workplace culture in a special section and at our annual awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>But it all starts with a nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone can nominate an an outstanding company or organization. Nominations are open and run through May 22. There is no charge.\u00a0To make a nomination or for more information on the awards, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/statesman.com\/nominate\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statesman.com\/nominate<\/a> or call (512) 551-0614.<\/p>\n<p>There is no cost to participate. To qualify, employees evaluate their workplace using a short survey that takes just a few minutes to complete. It covers topics such as company values, communications, workplace dynamics, employee engagement, leadership, pay and benefits.\u00a0Companies will be surveyed through July.<\/p>\n<p>Winners are ranked in three size categories. They earn recognition if their survey score exceeds national standard benchmarks and ranks among the top tier of surveyed organizations.\u00a0The benchmarks are set by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energage.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Energage<\/a>, our Pennsylvania-based research partner. It conducts Top Workplaces surveys for media in 70 markets nationwide and surveyed more than 2 million employees at more than 8,000 organizations in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarning a Top Workplaces award is a celebration of excellence,\u201d said Eric Rubino, CEO of Energage. \u201cIt serves as a reminder of the vital role a people-first workplace experience plays in achieving success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than 3,000 organizations in the Austin area were invited to survey their employees and 115 earned recognition as Top Workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at last year\u2019s program by the numbers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you found a great place to work, where employees are listened to and have an opportunity to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-236619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}