Choose People, LLC, is launching a nationwide certification that recognizes companies where employees feel good about coming to work.

Choose People provides companies a way to leverage their happy-employee reputation with socially conscientious consumers and future employees in the competitive marketplace. Choose People is the common thread that ties good consumers, great companies and happy employees together, which ultimately strengthens the larger social fabric and promotes economic sustainability.

The Choose People certification and red seal of approval immediately identifies a company as one that cares about its people. The seal will differentiate companies in the marketplace, increase positive brand awareness, build consumer loyalty and foster employee recruitment and retention.

Choose People Founder Kris Boesch understands the power of happy employees from first-hand experience. As the former CEO of a national moving company, Boesch witnessed exceptional company success as a direct result of efforts to improve and sustain employee morale. Anecdotally, she also learned that her employees’ on-the-job happiness spilled over at home and into the community.

"It's rewarding to know your actions as an employer make a difference -- that you're part of a positive ripple effect that extends far beyond the workplace," Boesch said. "We all know that work doesn't stay at work, so when we make the workplace better for people, we make the world better."

To balance her altruistic motives, Boesch claims there is a real business case for companies with happy employees and for those that achieve Choose People certification.

"We already know that happy employees equal a happy bottom line," Boesch said. "Choose People simply gives these companies access to a bigger, better bottom line because consumers want to put their money where their values are, and employees want to apply their talents and energy where they know they will be valued."

The Choose People nomination process is open year round to qualifying organizations with ten or more employees. The first Choose People Certified Companies will be announced in July 2010. Links to certified businesses, as well as job openings at these companies, will be available at www.ChoosePeople.com.

Choose People partnered with Colorado State University, logging over 1,000 research hours, to construct and validate its Employee Organizational Perceptions (EOP) survey, which measures if employees feel good about coming to work.

The CSU graduate research team, led by Associate Professor of Psychology Dr. Zinta Byrne, conducted more than 1,000 pilot tests across 18 organizations of various sizes and industries to produce the statistically robust certification measurement tool for Choose People, which is empirically validated and based on an eight-dimension psychometrics scale.

For more information about how to nominate, support or work for a Choose People company, visit www.ChoosePeople.com.

ABOUT CHOOSE PEOPLE
Fort Collins, Colorado-based Choose People, LLC, is a nationwide certification that recognizes companies where employees feel good about coming to work. Choose People provides companies a way to leverage their happy-employee reputation with socially conscientious consumers and future employees in the competitive marketplace. Founded in 2010 by Kris Boesch, Choose People is the common thread that ties good consumers, great companies and happy employees together, which ultimately strengthens the larger social fabric and promotes economic sustainability. For more information about how to nominate, support or work for a Choose People company, visit www.ChoosePeople.com.

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Nationwide certification for companies who have happy employees.

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