Five companies headquartered in Westchester County, including two of its largest biotechnology employers, have been ranked among the 50 best companies to work for in New York in an annual independent survey.
The 2012 survey, a partnership of the New York State Society for Human Resource Management, the Business Council of New York State and Best Companies Group, ranked the best places of employment in the state based on employee satisfaction and engagement as well as workplace practices and policies.
Acorda Therapeutics in Hawthorne ranked seventh on the list among large employers with 250 or more U.S. employees. Acorda, which will relocate its corporate headquarters this year to the Ardsley Park life sciences campus in the town of Greenburgh, ranked third among large companies in the Best Companies Group”™s 2011 survey.
The state”™s largest biotech employer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Greenburgh, was ranked 17th among best large employers to work for. Ranked 18th on the recently released list was Diversified Retirement Corp., a national investment advisor and retirement plan provider with headquarters at 440 Mamaroneck Ave. in Harrison.
Among small and medium employers, Quorum Federal Credit Union was rated the 14th best company to work for. The 35-year-old credit union is headquartered at 2 Manhattanville Road in Purchase.
Peter Burke, president of Best Companies Group, at a recent awards dinner in Albany for the 2012 winners, said the national average for employee engagement is about 33 percent. The New York survey, though, showed that 92 percent of employees at winning companies felt engaged, connected and willing to go above and beyond for the company, their managers and clients.
