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The four-star Midlands Park Hotel in Portlaoise has been awarded the Storytelling Award and awarded as one of Ireland’s Best Medium Workplaces at the Best Workplaces Awards, which took place in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin.
The Great Place to Work organisers say the Storytelling Award highlights the significance of capturing and sharing the human experience in the workplace, recognition and dedication put into bringing personal stories to life and fostering a positive and supportive workplace culture.
Great Place To Work selected the top thirty businesses as best in their category and Midlands Park Hotel were also recognised as Ireland’s Best Medium Workplaces for 2023. There was tough competition in this category and Midlands Park Hotel were delighted to accept both awards.
George Leahy, General Manager of Midlands Park Hotel, spoke about the awards which were presented on February 22.
Pictured: Marina Rivas, Marketing Brand Manager, Great Place to Work & Jennifer Emerson – Director of People & Culture at Midlands Park Hotel
“It is with such honour that we receive these awards from Great Place to Work. We love to tell a good story from our team to our guests and to be awarded for this is phenomenal. These awards celebrate our people and above all else, these people deserve to be celebrated. I am honoured to have such a great team behind me and look forward to seeing what our future brings together.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees around the world and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace experience.
Pictured: Jennifer Emerson, Sean Comer & Emma Ainsworth from Midlands Park Hotel
Great Place to Work helps organizations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating a high-trust work experience for all employees. Their unparalleled benchmark data is used to recognize Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies and the Best Workplaces™ in the U.S. and more than 60 countries, including those on the 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World’s Best lists published annually by Fortune.
They say everything they help every organisation become a Great Place to Work.
To learn more, visit www.greatplacetowork.ie
The full 2023 list of organisations and award winners, as well as rankings from previous years, are available at www.greatplacetowork.ie.
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