Frequently Asked Questions

1. What are the benefits of participating?

Recognition as a ‘Top Workplace’: Your company will stand-out as an ethical, caring employer with good leadership and development opportunities for staff. You will be awarded a ‘Top Workplaces’ logo, which you can show in your place of work; on your website; marketing & sales materials; and on recruitment ads. The ‘Top Workplaces’ logo will deliver great PR value to your organization. It will help you recruit and retain the best employees and reinforce your relationship with your customers.

Research shows that a more engaged workplace brings financial success through higher productivity and higher staff retention. Striving to become an exceptional workplace should not just be altruistic – it will help your bottom line as well.

2. Are there any costs to participating?

There is a minor charge to process paper surveys, in addition there are two optional extras which also have a fee:

• Paper Surveys: We survey employees using Online and Paper surveys. All online surveys are conducted free of charge. Paper surveys incur a $1.50 charge per survey to cover some of the printing, postage and scanning costs.
• Results Upgrade packages (optional): Click Upgrade Options to see more.
• Advertising in supplement (optional): The partner newspaper will ask companies that are named to the list if they would like to promote their employer brand in the Top Workplaces supplement.

3. What does my organization need to do to participate?

Contact your WorkplaceDynamics Research Analyst to begin the process via our Survey Tracker web interface. Your Research Analyst will send you a login and password to our secure site where you will be able to carry out the following requirements:

• You need to agree to the participation terms.
• You need to provide us with the number of paper surveys you require (if any) and the email addresses of employees. All information collected is kept confidential and NEVER shared or sold – see terms.
• We recommend that you send us a list of departments.
• We recommend that prior to the start of the survey you circulate a communication to employees to let them know about the program (we provide a template for this).
• We will send the paper surveys to one point of contact. We ask you to distribute these to the required employees.
• We recommend that you complete a short Company Questionnaire to help with your company profile for the publication and website should you be named to the list.

4. How many employees would we need to survey?

If your company has 400 or less employees in the survey region, we would like to survey all of your employees. If your company has over 400 employees in the survey region, we would like to survey between 400 and all of your employees (your choice).

5. Will surveys be available in Spanish?

Yes, paper surveys are available in Spanish.

6. How are surveys distributed?

We provide access to an online survey or provide paper surveys (or a combination of both).

• Internet survey: If you provide us with your email addresses, we can send a link to the online survey directly to your employees.
• Paper survey: We can send you the appropriate number of paper surveys and postage-paid reply envelopes to a point of contact. We would ask you to distribute the surveys to the employees that require one.

7. Are individual employee survey responses confidential?

Yes, WorkplaceDynamics takes confidentiality extremely seriously. Without confidentiality, this survey would not provide the candid feedback which makes the results so valuable. Individual survey responses are not shared with any third party. We do not show aggregate data for any demographic with 6 or less survey responses.

8. How are employee email addresses used?

We have surveyed over half a million employees via email and have never and will never release a single email address to another party or use a survey-taker’s email address for any purpose other than inviting the individual to take the workplace survey.

9.Is there a minimum response rate required?

A 30% response rate is required to be considered for Top Workplaces designation. For organizations with less than 100 employees, 30 survey responses are required. For organizations utilizing the random sample method (400 or more employees), we require 120 survey responses.

10. If our company is not named to the Top Workplaces list, will our company name ever appear anywhere stating that we participated?

No, we keep the names of participants confidential. Only the names of participants that make the Top Workplaces lists are shared with the partner newspaper.

11. Are there any participation terms and conditions?

Yes, there are a set of terms that are aimed at laying out the rules, and protecting your confidentiality. Please click here to see the Participation Terms.