We can see a remarkable sweep of the state’s commerce in the top three winners of the Hearst Connecticut Media Top Workplaces contest among large employers. If that’s a sign of broad strength, or at least potential, then other employers with hundreds of people on their payrolls may take notice, to the benefit of the state.
Finishing as No. 1 in 2019, for the second year in a row, is Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties, one of the region’s largest residential real estate brokerages — a unit of the corporation headed by Warren Buffett.
O&G Industries, of Torrington, comes in at the No. 2 position among large employers, bringing heavy construction, quarrying and mason materials — including several retail locations — to the top tier of Top Workplaces. O&G’s three-person leadership group, all in the Oneglia family, won this year’s top leadership awards among large employers.
Indeed, the online employment and staffing firm, rounds out the top three at No. 3. Indeed won the contest in its first year, 2016.
For all three companies, Connecticut in 2019 presents a challenge along with opportunity. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices — and William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance, another winning company in the large employers category for 2019 — must navigate a housing market that’s largely flat in the state, in contrast, for example, to fast-growing Massachusetts.
They do it by making communications and analysis tools available to agents and staff, and by maintaining flexible working conditions.
O&G faces two challenges in public-sector spending. First, the state and municipalities are building many fewer new schools because the number of students is decreasing. And...
from Business https://www.ctpost.com/topworkplaces/article/Large-employer-winners-reflect-state-economy-14464649.php
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