{"id":1612,"date":"2012-03-19T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theflatironblog.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2016-07-28T20:18:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T20:18:37","slug":"flatiron-construction-is-a-best-workplace-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/news\/flatiron-construction-is-a-best-workplace-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Flatiron Construction is a 2012 Best Workplace in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/flatironcon.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Best-Workplaces-2012-Canada-329x142.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-210\" src=\"http:\/\/flatironcon.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Best-Workplaces-2012-Canada-329x142-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"Flatiron Construction Best Workplace Canada 2012 logo with two stars and a red box\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Best-Workplaces-2012-Canada-329x142-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Best-Workplaces-2012-Canada-329x142.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Congratulations are in order for our Canadian Division. In mid-March the Great Place to Work Institute Canada announced Flatiron Construction earned the No. 38 spot on the 2012 50 Best Large Workplaces List, naming Flatiron among the best of the best along with companies like Ernst and Young, Google, Microsoft and Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p>What did our employees in Canada think was so great about working at Flatiron?<\/p>\n<p>In 50 out of 58 survey questions, employees ranked Flatiron at or above the benchmark (the average scores of the other companies who made the list). Flatiron scored 10 points or more above the benchmark on 11 questions, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My work has special meaning: this is not \u201cjust a job\u201d<\/li>\n<li>I want to work here for a long time<\/li>\n<li>There is a \u201cfamily\u201d or \u201cteam\u201d feeling here<\/li>\n<li>People look forward to coming to work here<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019re all in this together<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Flatiron isn\u2019t planning on stopping at the No. 38 spot. Canadian employees identified some areas where improvements could be made, specifically transfer effectiveness, onboarding and community involvement which are areas Flatiron will look to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Becoming a Best Place to Work has been a key business strategy for Flatiron since 2009. And in the U.S. we\u2019ll continue towards our goal to make Flatiron one of the top 100 best places to work, with each region addressing specific areas that you\u2019ve said are important to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations are in order for our Canadian Division. In mid-March the Great Place to Work Institute Canada announced Flatiron Construction earned the No. 38 spot on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[466],"tags":[73,107,179,181,183],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-and-recognition","tag-best-places-to-work","tag-canada","tag-flatiron","tag-flatiron-construction","tag-flatiron-corporation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}