FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

LOCAL COMPANIES RECOGNIZED AS RECIPIENTS OF THE SLOAN AWARD

FOR EXEMPLARY WORKPLACE PRACTICES

25 recipients in Houston, Texas will be awarded the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Award at the Sugar Creek Country Club

Houston, Texas (September, 2011) - The Flexible Workplace Initiative is pleased to congratulate employers that have distinguished themselves as leading practitioners of workplace flexibility in Houston, Texas and across the nation. The Houston, Texas recipients of the 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Award are:

2011 SLOAN WINNERS

Abel Design Group, Ltd.

BDO, LLP

Binkley & Barfield, Inc.

ContentActive, LLC

Deloitte

Fronterra Integrated Geosciences

Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center Library

Klotz Associates Inc.

KPMG

McDonald's USA LLC - Houston Region

Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

Null-Lairson, P.C.

PKF Texas

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Ryan LLC

Skylla Engineering Ltd.

The Dow Chemical Company

The VIA Group

University of Phoenix - Houston Campus

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Vinson and Elkins

Xvand Technology Corporation Provider of IsUtility

 

2011 HONORABLE MENTIONS

Access Sciences Corporation

Houston-Galveston Area Council

Jones & Carter, Inc.

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.

"The Flexible Workplace Initiative applauds these organizations for their use of flexibility as an effective workplace strategy to increase business success and benefit employees," states Shirley Crews Taylor. "Not only are they an example for other businesses wanting to remain competitive in today's rapidly changing marketplace, they are also leading the way in making Houston, Texas a great place to live and work."

As the official host for Houston, Texas - The Flexible Workplace Initiative will recognize recipients of the 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility at the upcoming event on Thursday, October 27, 2011 from 9am - 1pm at The Sugar Creek Country Club, 420 Sugar Creek Blvd., Sugar Land, Texas 77478.

For details please contact Shirley Crews Taylor, 832 288-5631 or go to website: www.flexworks.org.

The Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility are part of When Work Works, a national project to educate the business community on the value of workplace effectiveness and flexibility. It is an ongoing initiative of Families and Work Institute (FWI) 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.

For more information about the When Work Works project and the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility, visit www.whenworkworks.org @flexworkshtx

ABOUT THE FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE INITIATIVE

The purpose of Flexible Workplace Initiative Program (www.flexworks.org) is to provide outreach to the business community to:

• Raise awareness among employers and employees in your community about the importance of workplace flexibility as an essential business component of an effective workplace; and
• Create change in your community by increasing the number of local employers who use workplace flexibility as a business strategy to meet their organizational goals and by increasing the access local employees have to effective and flexible workplaces.
• Measure the positive impact of workplace flexibility and outline the numerous benefits to the community.

ABOUT WHEN WORK WORKS

When Work Works is a leading national initiative to help businesses of all sizes and types become more successful by transforming the way they view and adopt effective and flexible workplaces. When Work Works is one of the foremost providers of rigorous research and employer best practices on workplace effectiveness and flexibility in the nation, and administers the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility annually, which recognize exemplary employers for using flexibility as an effective workplace strategy to increase business and employee success. www.whenworkworks.org @FWInews

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