There’s still time for your company to be ranked among the Island’s ten best employers.

Due to continuing interest in The Bottom Line’s Top Ten Employers survey, the business magazine has decided to extend the deadline for entries until July 24.

This will give four weeks for organisations to submit the employer and employee responses necessary to enter.

The winners will be honoured at an awards ceremony at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess in September. Great employers are of great value to this community, but the forever-ongoing process of creating an organisational culture that makes them great employers is something that happens out of the public eye. The awards ceremony is such a feel-good occasion because the very best of employers are finally recognised and get their deserved moment in the limelight.

Making the top ten is an indication to the Island that an organisation does more than pay lip service to the oft-stated idea that “our people are our most important asset”.

It shows employees that they work for a great company and prospective talented employees that you offer a working environment in which they will be able to develop and thrive.

Previous winners have taken great pride in inserting the Top Ten Employers logo into their e-mail signatures and showing off their plaque at reception where every customer can see it.

This year, for the first time, every entrant will receive a free employment satisfaction report created from the anonymous feedback, outlining key recommendations for improving employee satisfaction.

The 2015 survey has attracted entrants from sectors of local business that have not been represented before. More organisations have indicated interest in recent weeks, hence the deadline extension.

Employers fill in basic information about their organisation and employment policies, while employees are asked to fill in an anonymous online survey to give their side of it. The information goes straight to market research firm Global Research, our partners in the survey, who analyse the information and produce statistical analysis and rankings. There are no judges involved, so the ranking is objective.

This is the fifth year that Global Research has worked on the survey and the third year it has been sponsored by professional services firm PwC Bermuda.

This year’s Top Ten will be featured in the September issue of The Bottom Line, distributed Island-wide inside The Royal Gazette.

Companies must have 25 employees or more to be eligible to enter. To enter the 2015 survey, contact info@bottomline.bm or call 278-0192.