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2024 BEST PLACES TO WORK — LARGE EMPLOYERS WINNER: Patriot Group
In the past five years, Patriot Group International has been recognized four times as the Best Place to Work among large employers in Virginia, but that doesn’t keep company leadership from wanting to do more and do better by its employees. Participation in Best Places to Work “provides us with great insight on some of [&hel[...]
2024 BEST PLACES TO WORK — SMALL EMPLOYERS WINNER: Troika Solutions
“Partners, process, technology” is the tagline of Reston-based management and technology consulting firm Troika Solutions. In addition to valuing its partnerships with its military and government clients, this service– disabled veteran-owned small business has a keen focus on its partnership with its employees, say[...]
2024 BEST PLACES TO WORK — MIDSIZE EMPLOYERS WINNER: Sriven Technologies
A lot of companies like to say they have a familylike atmosphere, but few seem as close as Ashburn-based Sriven Technologies, which has twice topped Virginia Business’ Best Places to Work small companies’ rankings, and this year leads the rankings of midsize employers for the first time. Sriven’s employees are so chummy wi[...]
Making the office cool again
It didn’t take long for Spurrier Group employees to want to be back in the office after the pandemic began. Within the first four weeks of workplace shutdowns in 2020, the women working at the Richmond-based strategy and media-buying firm started asking CEO Donna Spurrier when they could return to the company’s comfortably f[...]
Best Places to Work 2024
This is the 14th year that Virginia Business has compiled the Best Places to Work in Virginia list in collaboration with Pennsylvania-based Best Companies Group. More than 200 companies applied for inclusion in the 2024 Best Places to Work in Virginia cohort. A hundred companies were chosen, divided into three categories: small [...]
Magical moments
2023 BEST PLACES TO WORK — LARGE EMPLOYERS WINNER The pandemic put a damper on workplace culture, which was particularly difficult for service-oriented organizations like Vaco, a Tennessee-based national staffing and consulting firm with an office in Richmond. Recruiters and salespeople are typically more social and outgoing, [...]
13th annual Best Places to Work
This is the 13th year that Virginia Business has compiled the Best Places to Work in Virginia list in collaboration with Pennsylvania-based Best Companies Group. More than 200 companies applied for inclusion in the 2023 Best Places to Work in Virginia cohort. A hundred companies were chosen, divided into three categories: small [...]
Health first
2023 BEST PLACES TO WORK — SMALL EMPLOYERS WINNER SmartEdge IT LLC, a Herndon-based business software development company, places a high premium on employee health and well-being. SmartEdge pays 100% of the premium for its health care package and provides $50,000 life insurance policies for all full-time employees, benefits th[...]
A balancing act
While there was no way to predict that a global pandemic would disrupt office life as we knew it, one Virginia-based company already had a grip on one trend impacting working professionals. During the COVID-19 pandemic, one in five U.S. households adopted a cat or dog, accounting for about 23 million households, according to a [[...]
A challenging year
2023 BEST PLACES TO WORK — MIDSIZE EMPLOYERS WINNER The last couple years have been a trying time for many businesses, but probably not for the same reasons as Patriot Group International Inc. When the U.S. Armed Forces withdrew the last troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, ending a 20-year war, the Warrenton-based federal [...]
Flex time
The traditional 9-to-5 workday at the office is a thing of the past at forward-thinking companies looking to recruit and retain top talent. “That’s out the door,” says Melody Donovan-Hopkins, a director and senior human resources consultant with Fahrenheit Advisors in Richmond. In its place is a flexible work model that [...]
Best Places To Work 2022
This is the 12th year that Virginia Business has compiled the Best Places to Work in Virginia list in collaboration with Pennsylvania-based Best Companies Group. More than 200 companies applied for inclusion in the 2022 Best Places to Work in Virginia cohort. A hundred companies were chosen, divided into three categories: small [...]
