Camp Hill, Pennsylvania-based Harsco Corp. has been featured in the Newsweek magazine and website’s Most Loved Workplaces list for 2021, ranking number 13 among 100 companies recognized “for employee happiness and satisfaction at work.”
The list was produced in collaboration with the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida-based Best Practice Institute (BPI), according to Harsco. The list results were determined after surveying more than 800,000 employees from businesses with workforces varying in size from 50 to more than 10,000.
“The people of Harsco are what make our company great,” says Wendy Livingston, Harsco’s chief human resources officer. “This accomplishment could not have been achieved without each of our 12,000 global employees. Harsco is dedicated to living our core values every day, with our employee care value being our top priority.”
“Love of workplace or Most Loved Workplace (MLW) is the intersection of intense feelings toward aspects of a company, perception of how your company feels about you, and attitudes toward respect and treatment of employees,” says BPI CEO Louis Carter. “Our study proves that intense [positive] feelings for the workplace are a greater predictor of organizational outcomes such as organizational commitment and perceived willingness to produce more for the company.”
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harsco says it created key principles that reflected the company’s commitment to a healthy and safe environment for employees and customers. In addition to providing personal protective equipment (PPE), company paid sick and quarantine time and remote work arrangements, Harsco says it quickly dedicated a portion of its website to share “important pandemic-related information in a timely manner with employees across the world.”
Comments Nancy Cooper, global editor in chief of Newsweek, “In the wake of the pandemic, businesses hit hurdles in terms of retaining and attracting employees – but the companies that made this list are delivering the respect, care, and appreciation that it takes to create a positive workplace that nurtures talent.”
To earn its ranking, 83 percent of Harsco employees responded to an employee engagement survey in 2020. The survey found that 88 percent of employees agreed Harsco “exemplifies their core values well,” and 87 percent of employees said “teamwork and inclusion are high priorities” in the company culture.
The full Newsweek list of 2021’s Most Loved Workplaces can be found on this web page. Other companies tied to the recycling sector who made the list include Pittsburgh-based United States Steel Corp. (No. 43) and Delaware, Ohio-based packaging and containerboard producer Greif (No. 59).
Harsco Corp. describes itself as a provider of environmental solutions for industrial and specialty waste streams, which includes a steel mill services business unit, and “innovative technologies” for the rail sector.