LANSING, MI- Peckham, Inc. has been certified as a Great Place to Work® company for the sixth consecutive year in a row . This title is based off Great Place to Work’s extensive, data-driven questionnaire which was given directly to Peckham employees. To become a certified company, 7 out of 10 employees must agree that their day-to-day work experience is consistently positive. The results from Peckham’s survey concluded there is an 80% overall agreement that the company is, in fact, an outstanding place to work.
“We remain honored to continue to be certified as a Great Place to Work among our employees,” said Justin Walworth, Chief Human Resources Officer. “While we have gotten this certification before, this one is significant as we have experienced a great amount of transition within the organization. We are proud to be able to maintain the positive culture and employee morale consistent with Peckham’s reputation another year.”
“We congratulate Peckham on their Certification,” said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, Vice President of Best Workplace List Research at Great Place to Work. “Organizations that earn their employees’ trust create great workplace cultures that deliver outstanding business results.”
“At Peckham, we place a high importance on people and their individual work experience and this award is a testament to the diligence we take in driving our mission each day,” said Jo Sinha, President and CEO of Peckham. “We work to maintain and create a safe environment, where employees can trust leadership, feel like they have a voice and contribute value to the organization.”
Peckham is a nonprofit vocational rehabilitation organization that provides paid job training opportunities for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment. For more than 43 years, Peckham has provided jobs and job skills training to thousands of individuals with barriers through five different business lines throughout Michigan, and has operations in Phoenix, Arizona and London, Kentucky. To learn more about Peckham, visit www.peckham.org.
About Great Place to Work®
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees around the world and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Great Place to Work helps organizations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating a high-trust work experience for all employees. Emprising®, their culture management platform, empowers leaders with the surveys, real-time reporting, and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Their unparalleled benchmark data is used to recognize Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies and the Best Workplaces™ in the US and more than 60 countries, including the 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World’s Best list published annually in Fortune. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a Great Place to Work For All™.
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