HARRISBURG, Pa. – Regional convenience-store retailer Sheetz Inc. has again taken its place among 100 Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania. Team Pennsylvania Foundation and the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) revealed the 2015 list on September 21.
Team PA is the lead sponsor and, along with DCED and The Central Penn Business Journal, a founding partner of the program, which pays tribute to top companies around the commonwealth.
The 2015 Best Places to Work list represents companies with more than 22,900 employees throughout Pennsylvania.
The Best Places to Work in PA Program is generally made up of two groups of companies: 50 small/medium-sized (25to 249 employees) and 50 large-sized companies (250 employees or more).
Sheetz has more than more than 16,000 employees chain-wide.
Through the research process, a survey is sent to both the employers and employees from hundreds of companies from across the commonwealth.
However, this year, more medium-sized companies scored higher marks than large-sized companies, so the list is made up of 74 small/medium-sized firms and 26 from the large category.
Winning companies achieve the highest combined scores in a twofold evaluation: review of a company’s workplace policies, practices, philosophies, systems and demographics (25%); and results of an employee survey to measure the employee experience (75%).
Using a formula similar to Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work for in America,” the Best Companies Group surveys and scores the workplace practices survey along with the employee survey and each Best Places to Work candidate is given an overall score.
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Sheetz ranked at No. 87 on Fortune’s list, and it also made the Best Places to Work lists in Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Established in 1952 in Altoona, Pa., Sheetz is one of America's fastest growing family-owned and operated convenience retailers, with more than $6.9 billion in revenue for 2014. The company operates more than 500 c-stores throughout Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina.
The chain provides a menu of Made-To-Order MTO subs, sandwiches, salads and specialty coffee drinks that customers order through touchscreen orderpoint terminals.
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