2024 Best Places to Work Celebration and Final Rankings Reveal

The 60 company honorees comprising the 2024 Best Places to Work showed up in full force on Thursday, May 2, 2024, for Tampa Bay’s largest corporate picnic.

Nearly 1,000 employees, managers and their families celebrated at Raymond James Stadium with music, food and games as the ranking order was revealed in the annual event spotlighting Tampa Bay companies that devote time and focus to culture and belonging at work.

View the photos above for scenes from the event, and find the entire gallery here.

This year marks the 18th of the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Best Place to Work — a program that gives employees the chance to confidentially vote for their workplaces and have a voice. Quantum Workplace surveyed employees at these high-functioning companies about company culture, including compensation and benefits and trust in leaders. Nominations were accepted and nominated companies were surveyed.

Quantum evaluated employees’ responses to create composite scores. Analytical tools selected the top organizations in each size class (small, medium, large and extra large). The results are quantitative, based on employee survey responses rather than a panel of outside judges.

The post-pandemic era has seen a shift in focus on workplace culture priorities, with access to remote work and flexibility high a high priority. But the future of workplace flexibility is in how employees are able to do their work, research from O.C. Tanner’s 2024 Global Culture Report found.

“While this includes time and place, it’s also about autonomy and control over their time at work,” a summary said.

The report found there are five factors to workplace flexibility that contribute to employees feeling balance, trusted, and valued at work, including time for personal matters and development, as well as autonomy in how employees accomplish their work.

Read more: See all 60 honorees and discover what differentiates their workplaces in the May 3 digital edition.

“While not all jobs can have the same types of flexibility (nor do employees expect them to), organizations can still offer some to every role,” the report said. “It could also mean letting employees find a quiet environment when they need to focus, and allowing them to choose projects they’re interested in.”

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