AnswerFirst is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for 2023!
The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at AnswerFirst. This year, 96% of employees said it’s a great place to work – 37 points higher than the average U.S. company.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention, and increased innovation.
“Great Place to Work Certification™ isn’t something that comes easily – it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience,” said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. “It’s the only official recognition determined by employees’ real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that AnswerFirst is one of the best companies to work for in the country.”
We are thrilled to become Great Place to Work-Certified™ as we consider employee experience a top priority every day,” said President and CEO, Matt Herron. “We owe our continued success to our team of dedicated employees at AnswerFirst. We celebrate and thank them for all they do to earn this incredible recognition.”
At AnswerFirst, we are committed to fulfilling our vision of, “a healthy world filled with happy people,” and that starts by taking care of our employees.
The majority of our staff have the title “Customer Service Professional” and this role is the most important job at AnswerFirst. CSPs work the frontline answering our customers’ calls, texts, emails, web chats and other business communications. In other words, these team members are responsible for relating with our customers’ customers and providing exceptional customer service every day.
This past year as inflation started to impact the cost of living and AnswerFirst team members started expressing that they were stressed about the cost of food and housing expenses, we decided to move forward with an additional pay increase for our Customer Service Professionals. Even though our call volume slowed down a little earlier in the summer than we expected and there wasn’t extra revenue to cover an additional pay raise, our leadership team felt it was more important to alleviate stress for our employees than to worry about maximizing profits. Ensuring that our Customer Service Professionals are as stress-free as possible is an important first step in providing exceptional customer service.
We support thousands of clients around the globe with our fully remote staff. While many businesses have returned to requiring onsite work, we believe that allowing employees to choose where they want to work is not only supportive of their well-being but also good for our environment. Our cloud-based infrastructure allows us to effectively run AnswerFirst and support our clients without requiring our hundreds of employees to sit in traffic back and forth to work each day. There are hundreds of fewer cars on the road which reduces traffic congestion and reduces our carbon footprint.
According to Great Place to Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work, and are twice as likely to be paid fairly, earn a fair share of the company’s profits, and have a fair chance at promotion.
About AnswerFirst
AnswerFirst provides first-class 24/7/365 full-service call center solutions to businesses around the globe. Our 25+ years of experience, talent and technology combined can cater to any business in any industry. Answering inbound calls, emails, web chats, social media inquiries and SMS messages 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with live, dedicated, professional, career-driven U.S.-based representatives. Our customer care center provides technologically innovative customer experiences in the form of answering services, business process management, message taking, order processing, appointment scheduling, voice mail services and much more.
About Great Place to Work Certification™
Great Place to Work® Certification™ is the most definitive “employer-of-choice” recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified.
About Great Place to Work®
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.
