A year ago in the introduction to our Top Workplaces coverage, I wrote, “these are strange times for the economy,” as times were good for many companies and unemployment stood at record lows — yet Connecticut wasn’t growing.
We couldn’t know how strange, how scary, how tragic and how heroic Connecticut’s workplaces could become. With the coronavirus partial shutdown and restart, companies have had to face a sort of uncertainty that no one can really prepare to handle in advance.
And yet, preparation — along with compassion and creativity — showed themselves in abundance at the 49 employers that made the list of winners in the Hearst Connecticut Top Workplaces contest of 2020.
While last year’s challenges, for many, centered on finding good people or fostering growth, this year has been about adapting in ways we could not have imagined a year ago.
At Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties (1st place among large employers for the third consecutive year), that meant enduring a spring season with few sales but a lot of preparation for a comeback in the summer, with changes such as open houses bunched together and of course, new heights of virtual house tours.
BHHS has 19 locations and nearly 800 employees, many of them agents, in the three counties covered by the Hearst Connecticut Top Workplaces — Fairfield, New Haven and Litchfield.
Several newcomers to Top Workplaces took high honors this year, including Criterion, a small but global software developer in Norwalk, (1st place, small employers with CEO Sunil Reddy winning the top leadership award in that category); Autism Behavioral Health, a Danbury company that’s the only one on the list founded in the last seven years (2nd place,...
from Business https://www.ctpost.com/topworkplaces/article/The-49-winners-for-2020-a-year-when-preparation-15586615.php
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