The labor market in the greater Denver metro area is as tight and as competitive as it has ever been. Employers are doing anything they can to attract talent: increasing wages, sweetening benefit packages, granting more time off. Looking at the new office spaces that are opening up in the city — like Industry RiNo Station, a flex office space that’s so inviting it makes you want to pay to work there — it’s easy to see how employees might be whistling while they work.
But with all that, where are the best places to work, really?
You might think that an impossible question to answer, but every year The Denver Post and its partner Energage (formerly called WorkplaceDynamics) undertake an extensive survey of area employees to find the coolest, most satisfying places to spend 40-plus hours a week making a living.
This year is the eighth annual Top Workplaces program, where any organization with 50 or more employees in Colorado is eligible. The organizations can be public, private, nonprofit or government.
Here’s how it works: Workplaces are nominated by employees using a short, 24-question survey. Those companies will be surveyed from September to December. Energage conducts Top Workplaces surveys for 50 major metro newspapers and surveyed 2.5 million employees at more than 6,000 organizations in 2017.
The deadline for nominations is Oct. 19, so let the competition begin.
Go to to nominate an employer. You don’t have to be an employee to do so. Nominations also are taken by phone at 303-261-8253.
Publication of the winners will come in spring 2019, in a special section in The Post and online. There are winners in large, medium and small categories, and many employers are recognized.
Here’s a look at last year’s program, by the numbers:
- Organizations invited: 1,644
- Organizations surveyed: 226
- Organizations recognized: 150
- Employees represented by surveyed organizations: 87,988
- Employee invitees to the survey: 83,857
- Employee survey responses: 54,880
