LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY (August 3, 2011) – Harding, Shymanski & Company, P.S.C. has been honored with the 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility for its use of flexibility as an effective workplace strategy to increase business and employee success.
This prestigious award, part of the national When Work Works project, recognizes employers of all sizes and types in the greater Louisville area and across the country.
Workplace flexibility—such as flextime, part-time work and compressed work weeks—has been demonstrated to help businesses remain competitive while also benefiting employees as well. The Sloan Awards are unique for their rigorous, two-step selection process, which involves an evaluation of employers’ flexibility programs and practices, and a confidential employee survey. All applicants are measured against national norms from FWI’s National Study of Employers. As a recipient of the 2011 Sloan Award, Harding, Shymanski & Company, P.S.C. ranks in the top 20% of employers nationally in terms of its programs, policies and culture for creating an effective and flexible workplace. In addition, what makes this honor so special is that their employees have corroborated this, affirming that it is indeed an effective and flexible workplace. Harding, Shymanski & Company, P.S.C. will be recognized as a 2011 Sloan Award recipient at an upcoming event hosted by Greater Louisville Inc.-The Metro Chamber of Commerce.
When Work Works is a national project to educate the business community on the value of workplace flexibility by sharing research and promising practices, and conducting the annual Sloan Awards. It is an ongoing initiative of Families and Work Institute first funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2011, the Society for Human Resource Management and FWI formed a ground-breaking, multi-year partnership to grow When Work Works and help businesses become more successful by transforming the way they view and adopt effective and flexible workplaces.
