On July 1st, the Minneapolis\/St. Paul Business Journal announced the 2013 winners of their Best Places to Work awards. Clockwork was among the 53 companies whose employees “gave their employers high marks in an anonymous survey on topics such as work environment, people practices and how things work day-to-day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the last few years, Clockwork has won each of the major workplace awards given away by Twin Cities-area publications: Star Tribune, Minneapolis\/St. Paul Business Journal, and Minnesota Business Magazine. In fact, this is our third year a row winning all three awards. Combine those with other similar honors, and we’ve won 15 workplace awards in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the Communications Director, part of my job is to share news and info like this to our social media channels. But as I was about to post this most-recent honor earlier this month, I thought, \u201cDoes it just sound like we\u2019re bragging all the time?\u201d The answer is partly yes, because it\u2019s frickin\u2019 cool that we won. But the other part of the answer is this: It\u2019s not just bragging because it really matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These awards mean something every time we win them. The leadership team, and all of us Clockworkers, work really hard at making Clockwork a workplace where people feel good and a space where people actually like to be. <\/em>As you can imagine, this isn\u2019t something that\u2019s easy to measure. A \u201cgood workplace\u201d is a combination of subjective sentiment and objective benefits, and a combination of personal effort and organizational structure. Each award, though, validates that what we\u2019re doing is working. It validates that my colleagues and I are pretty happy and like how things are going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When we\u2019re successful with the energy we\u2019ve put into our workplace, that\u2019s a big deal. It\u2019s important because it has significant consequences for our work, our clients, families, and community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So let\u2019s brag \u2014 let\u2019s brag that we love what we do, and with whom we do it, and for whom we do it \u2014 because that\u2019s what these awards mean to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On July 1st, the Minneapolis\/St. Paul Business Journal announced the 2013 winners of their Best Places to Work awards. Clockwork was among the 53 companies whose employees “gave their employers high marks in an anonymous survey on topics such as work environment, people practices and how things work day-to-day.\u201d Over the last few years, Clockwork has won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,56],"tags":[],"coauthors":[73],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-strategy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat the awards mean for our work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
… and for our clients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
… and for our families and community<\/h3>\n\n\n\n