BUSINESSES are invited to compete for the title of Jersey’s Best Workplace in an initiative launched this week by All Island Media and CompassJersey.
As well as recognising the Island’s most exceptional organisation, the scheme focuses on employee engagement and workplace culture, as well as highlighting the importance of positive leadership to create an environment in which people want to work.
Powered by CompassJersey, a specialist HR and training consultancy, and in partnership with All Island Media, the parent company of the Jersey Evening Post and Bailiwick Express, participating businesses will receive a survey focused on employee satisfaction, wellbeing and workplace culture.
“We know that because most leadership teams recognise the need to tune into their employees and stay in touch with the mood of the business, a lot of companies carry out their own employee engagement surveys,” said CompassJersey strategy and growth director James Horrigan. “It is therefore important to stress that this initiative is not based on another employee engagement survey.
“Jersey’s Best Workplace is an entirely different proposition, designed to elevate an organisation’s ability to demonstrate to the rest of the world what its employees genuinely think about its efforts across six key areas: reward and recognition, information sharing, empowerment, personal pride, job satisfaction and wellbeing.
“It is an opportunity for employees to give their opinions, openly, honestly and fairly, in a way which can be used to help the company market itself externally as well as to shape its internal practices.”
As part of their entry into Jersey’s Best Workplace, all participating businesses will receive a comprehensive report detailing key insights into how their teams feel about various aspects of their jobs, ranging from overall job satisfaction and personal pride to areas such as reward, recognition and empowerment.
Participating organisations will not only receive detailed results and analysis but will also be benchmarked against other local businesses. Top-performing companies will be highlighted in a special Jersey’s Best Workplace publication distributed in print and online through the Jersey Evening Post and Bailiwick Express in March 2025. Winners will be honoured at a special awards ceremony in March 2025.
As well as offering businesses an opportunity to gain insights from their employees, the initiative, says All Island Media chief executive James Filleul, enables them to “showcase their commitment to creating a positive workplace environment and use the results to enhance their reputation, attracting and retaining top talent”.
This, adds Mr Horrigan, is particularly beneficial, given the Island’s employment market.
“Jersey has a concentration of highly qualified, highly motivated individuals but also a high concentration of employers fighting for those individuals,” he said. “This supply and demand rule amplifies the need for organisations to be in the best position to attract and retain the best talent.”
In addition to the survey results, compensation and potential to be crowned Jersey’s Best Workplace, entrants will receive an All Island Media advertising credit and an annual subscription to the digital edition of the Jersey Evening Post.
For more information, and to register, visit jerseysbestworkplace.com.
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