The Boston Globe Names Wayside Youth and Family Support Network a Top Place to Work for 2023
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December 8, 2023
Contact: Betsy Freedman Doherty
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The Boston Globe Names Wayside Youth and Family Support Network a Top Place to Work for 2023
Magazine honors the best employers in Massachusetts
Framingham (DECEMBER 3, 2023) – Wayside Youth and Family Support Network has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in the 15th annual employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe.
Top Places to Work recognizes the most admired workplaces in the state voted on by the people who know them best—their employees. The survey measures employee opinions about their company’s direction, execution, connection, management, work, pay and benefits, and engagement. The employers are placed into one of four groups: small, with 50 to 99 employees; medium, with 100 to 249 workers; large, with 250 to 999; and largest, with 1,000 or more. Wayside Youth and Family Support Network was ranked 50 out of 55 employers in the large category.
“The best employers are always striving to put their people first, whether they’re honoring small individual. accomplishments or adjusting company-wide policies to become more inclusive. “Said Katie Johnston, the Globe’s Top Places to Work editor.
Additionally, Wayside was listed as one of 23 companies that excel at championing DEI. “This recognition is a testament to our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace,” says Guimel DeCarvalho, Wayside’s Vice President of Administration and Chief Information Officer. “We have been doing the hard work of embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into our workplace culture because it is what is best for our people and our business.”
The rankings in Top Places to Work are based on confidential survey information collected by Energage (formerly Workplace Dynamics), an independent company specializing in employee engagement and retention, from more than 137K individuals at 347 Massachusetts organizations. The winners are constantly working to improve their workplaces, from investigating how artificial intelligence can assist. workers, not replace them, to helping workers get to know each other in an increasingly hybrid world. Top Places to Work online extras include sortable rankings and features showcasing companies that are going the extra mile to make their workplaces more supportive and responsive to their employees’ ever-changing needs. All can be found at Globe.com/TopPlaces. Readers can follow the news on Twitter at #workboston.
About Wayside: About Wayside Youth & Family Support Network: Founded in 1977, Wayside Youth & Family Support Network is a non-profit, nationally accredited human services agency headquartered in Framingham, Mass. dedicated to building strength, hope and resiliency through its family-based outreach services, residential treatment programs, and community-based counseling services to thousands of children, youth and families throughout Eastern and Central Massachusetts. Wayside Youth & Family Support Network has been a strong presence in Watertown for decades. The Wayside Multi-Service Center, which joined Wayside in 1996, has provided services to the community since the 1960s. Today, Wayside operates multiple youth programs aimed at preventing risky behavior and building healthy ones. Wayside also runs the Watertown Social Services Resource Specialist Program, linking members of the community to vital services. To learn more about Wayside, please visit www.Waysideyouth.org
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