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Utah’s Top Employers Tout Their Talent

Utah Business Magazine just released their list of the best companies to work for in Utah:

This year, Utah Business scoured the state looking for companies that were… succeeding at making sure their employees love their jobs. From monthly parties to competitive salaries, the 2006 Best Companies to Work For are implementing the policies that keep their staffs grinning. Personal fitness trainers, onsite daycare, subsidized gourmet meals, a company condothe list of outstanding benefits the best companies offer could go on…

Here’s the companies that made the list. If you agree, or disagree, I am interested in YOUR comments, below.

• Connect Public Relations
• Love Communications
• Rosi Office Products
• Infopia
• Employer Solutions Group
• A-Plus Benefits
• Ace Disposal, Inc.
• USANA Health Sciences, Inc.
• Spillman Technologies
• Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah
• 1-800 CONTACTS
• Comcast

If you’re a business-owner and you didn’t make the list, no problem.

If you’re working hard to retain and take care of your people, and they feel a deep, mentoring relationship with their direct supervisor, and the company (not a “punch-in, punch-out, thanks for the check, oh, and I’m calling in sick” relationship), they will stick with you.

• Open up.
• No, “lunch for the office” is not the same as 90 minutes at a restaurant where they have your undivided, blackberry-less attention.
• Help them, even if it might mean losing them.
• Ask the tough questions. Are they actually happy there?
• Send them home early when you know they’ve put everything on-hold (including their families) for your deadline.
• Tell them when things go wrong (especially when it’s your fault), as well as when things go right (especially when it’s their fault).
• Let them see the numbers.
• Ask for their advice and listen (which means, “do”)

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Tags: Attracting Talent, Economic Outlook, Employee Performance, Marketplace, Retention