Utah’s Top Workplaces for 2024: You have more time to praise your employer

It’s been a wobbly time when it comes to job satisfaction, to say the least.

New data issued in February shows Utah’s employee contentment metrics at a four-year low, pulled down by unhappy technology and nonprofit workers in particular while others seem to be happier.

If you’re one who cherishes your workplace these days, you’ve got more time to tell the world.

For an 11th year, The Salt Lake Tribune is sponsoring its annual Top Workplaces awards program as a platform for employees to highlights their employers, large and small, for special recognition.

Energage, The Tribune’s research partner, has now extended its deadline for participation for 2024 to May 17.

The technology firm based in suburban Philadelphia focuses on employee engagement and research and makes all this free, with no obligation to buy anything. Go to https://www.sltrib.com/nominate now if you want to jump in.

Any workplaces with 35 workers or more in the state can participate — be they public, private, nonprofit or a government agency.

Willing employees can then rate, describe and extol their employers as they wish, via a short 24-question survey through June, with results expected to be published by The Tribune in September.

So far, more than 200 employers in Utah have signed up to participate this year.

In 2023, Energage vetted more than 51,384 responses from Utah employees at nearly 200 workplaces.

The worker-engagement firm conducted similar sentiment surveys last year on behalf of media outlets in 65 markets, surveying over 2 million employees at more than 8,000 organizations.