Despite often smaller budgets and fewer resources than their larger brethren, small companies made a big splash in this year’s Best Places to Work in Indiana rankings.
Armed with an array of creative ways to attract and retain talent – not to mention have fun in the process – more small companies made this year’s list than medium and large organizations combined.
Harnessing Mutual Loyalty: Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing and Casino gives its employees many reasons to love working there, as is evident by its No. 1 position among large companies in this year’s Best Places to Work in Indiana rankings. Good pay and benefits, continuing education initiatives and social activities are a good start. Plus, there are behind-the-scenes benefits employees couldn’t possibly pay back. And management doesn’t expect them to.
Secret Sauce: What’s the secret to reaching the No. 1 spot on the Indiana Best Places to Work list? The answer is simple yet may be surprising. Executives with Bedford-based employee benefits firm JA Benefits and TrueScripts, a pharmacy benefits manager headquartered in Washington, share how they’ve managed to scale this mountain multiple times.
Wayne County Rising: There’s more than optimism cropping up over Richmond and Wayne County. Fueled by a Lilly Endowment grant and a massive local match, there are more commercial and residential developments going up in the community in eastern Indiana than have been seen there in decades. Now, city and county officials say, everything is being put in place to make Wayne County a booming community in which to live, work and visit.
