Best Places to Work in Maine

B E S T P L A C E S TO W O R K 2 0 2 1 3 How We Did it! M aine continues to be a great place to live and work. Maine's quality workforce and world- class businesses are two of our most valuable resources. The "Best Places to Work in Maine" program helps bring these resources together to ensure our leadership in the future economy. The "Best Places to Work in Maine," conceived in 2006, is a celebration of elite employers who have proven that they know what it takes to create an environment where people love to come to work. The goal of "Best Places to Work in Maine" is to raise the bar among our state's employers, creating excellence and employee engagement in the workplace that will attract talented people for years to come. The "Best Places to Work in Maine" program is open to all publicly or pri- vately held organizations, either for- profit or not-for-profit. To be eligible for consideration, organizations must have at least 15 employees working in the state. The "Best Places to Work" survey pro- cess was managed by Best Companies Group (BCG). BCG, an independent workplace excellence research firm, managed the registration process, con- ducted the two-part survey process, evaluated the data and ultimately chose the employers that were good enough to make the list. To go through the 2021 assessment process, participants needed to register by May 28, 2021. Part one of the assessment (one- quarter of each organization's score) consisted of the BCG Employer Ben- efits & Policies Questionnaire (EQ), used to collect information about each employers' benefits, policies, practices and other general information. Part two of the assessment (three-quarters of each organization's score) involved the confidential 77-question Employee Engagement & Satisfaction Survey (EESS), which was used to evaluate the employees' workplace experience and culture. The combined data allowed the experts at BCG to conduct an in-depth analysis of the strengths and chal- lenges that exist in each organization. BCG's workplace assessment experts determined who was good enough to make the list and then ranked those winners in the different size categories. Each participating organization received the BCG Insights Report Package summarizing the employee data collected through the employee survey process. In addition to the em- ployee opinion data, the report also included transcribed employee writ- ten comments, as well as the Maine benchmarking data from the winning and non-winning organizations. The Insights Report Package will help each company understand their workforce better and equip them with the infor- mation to make improvements. The winners presented on the fol- lowing pages are indeed innovators and the ones other employers use as benchmarks. As you read their profiles, you'll see the often unique ways in which these organizations are able to help their employees, and their busi- nesses and their communities. Visit www.BestPlacestoWorkME.com for more information or call Best Compa- nies Group toll free at 1-877-455-2159. 2021 Copyright 2021. All rights reserved. Publisher: Peter Stanton Writer: Laurie Schreiber Art Director: Matt Selva Advertising Sales Director: Andrea Tetzlaff Senior Account Managers: Ken Hanson and Betsy VanderPloeg Account Managers: Bonnie Dougherty Society of Human Resource Managers (SHRM) Maine State Council The winners presented on the following pages are indeed innovators and the ones other employers use as benchmarks. S PONS OR ED BY Sometimes a negative experience can be turned into positive opportunities. Hear how Maine business leaders weathered stormy times and found long-term success. Changed Everything The Day that INSPIRING STORIES OF RECOVERY AND INNOVATION LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE TODAY! MAINEBIZ.BIZ/PODCASTS podcasts R E C E N T 2 0 2 1 E P I S O D E S E P I S O D E 3 1 Nisha Dearborn F O U N D E R O F F R E S H C H E M I S T RY E P I S O D E 3 2 Carolyn Delaney F O U N D E R & P U B L I S H E R O F J O U R N E Y M AG A Z I N E E P I S O D E 3 3 & Drew Graham Todd Flaherty S H I P R I G H T

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