White River Junction
The award, formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Excellence in Workplace Effectiveness and Flexibility, recognizes employers across the country for their use of workplace strategies to increase business and employee success.
This is the second year in a row RSG has won the award.
“We are thrilled to receive this recognition for our workplace practices,” said Stephen Lawe, chief executive officer of employee-owned RSG, which applies modeling and analytics to address transportation planning, market strategy and environmental management issues.
Award applicants are evaluated on six workplace characteristics: opportunities for learning; a culture of trust; work-life fit; supervisor support for work success; autonomy and satisfaction with earnings, benefits and opportunities for advancement.
“Effective workplaces recognize that employees are an organization’s greatest resource and make a critical difference in the organization’s ability to not only survive, but to thrive,” Ellen Galinsky, president of Families and Work Institute, said in a news release.
Lisa Horn, director of Society for Human Resource Management’s workplace flexibility initiative, said the award shows that employers “are continuing the movement toward effective workplace strategies that benefit both business and employees.”
RSG is headquartered in White River Junction and has locations in Burlington, Vt., Arlington, Va., Evansville, Ind., St. Augustine, Fla., Chicago, Salt Lake City, Portland, Ore., and San Diego.
The Quechee Club has announced the completion of its new Aquatic Complex and the expansion of its fitness club. The $4.4 million renovation and expansion project includes new indoor and outdoor pools, a deck surrounding the exterior pool, a larger indoor pool area with an aerobics room, and a new retention pond. The 10,000-square-foot indoor complex is twice the size of its predecessor and includes four lap lanes and an open-concept design. The club, which operates under the Quechee Lakes Landowners Association, has approximately 1,400 members.
The Lyme Inn has received a Certificate of Excellence from the travel website TripAdvisor. The certificate acknowledges hospitality businesses that have earned top traveler reviews on TripAdvisor over the past year. The certificate accounts for the quality, quantity and timeliness of reviews submitted by travelers on TripAdvisor. To qualify, a business must maintain an overall TripAdvisor rating of at least four out of five, have a minimum number of reviews and must have been listed on TripAdvisor for at least 12 months.
The Upper Valley chapter of SCORE is offering an all-day, hands-on workshop on WordPress on Saturday, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Franklin Pierce University, 24 Airport Road, Lebanon. This course will cover how to use WordPress to build websites and blogs and publish content on the Web. Each participant will have his or her own workstation and work on a dedicated WordPress website or blog. Gary Horsman and Vasilios Georgitsis will present the workshop. Horsman is in charge of marketing at A Global Reach, a business development and internet marketing company in Woodstock. Georgitsis is president of GlobeInt.com Inc. and owner of NHVT Computer Services LLC, both of Lebanon. Cost is $300. There will be a one-hour break for lunch (not included) and light refreshments will be available in the room for the morning session. For more information or to reserve a spot, visit www.uppervalley.score.org or call 603-448-3491.
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