HB Construction Named NM Business Weekly's 2011 Best Place to Work

For the second time in three years, HB Construction has been honored as New Mexico Business Weekly’s Best Place to Work in the small company category at the publication’s annual awards breakfast Dec. 8 at Hotel Albuquerque.

“As a company we support our employee’s professional and personal goals and that’s been a key component to our success,” said President and CEO of HB Construction Jason W. Harrington.

Scoring 99.12 out of 100 possible points, the company received the highest employee satisfaction score out of the program’s 30 finalists. The scores were based on anonymous, third-party administered employee satisfaction surveys.

This is the third year in a row that the firm has been honored by the Best Places to Work program, having earned the Second Best Place to Work award in 2010 and the Best Place to Work award in 2009, both in the small company category. Chosen from 90 other companies, from a variety of industries, HB Construction was the only general contractor to make the 2011 list of Best Places to Work.

“There’s a real sense of family here at HB Construction and I think that’s one of the things that makes it such a wonderful place to work,” said HB Construction Marketing Coordinator Paul Dahlgren.

Along with the title of “Best Place to Work,” the firm was presented with a custom-designed award and was featured in a profile story in the publication’s special Dec. 9 issue.

According to an article by the New Mexico Business Weekly, the publication partnered with Quantum Workplace, an expert in workplace satisfaction surveys, to provide nominated companies with surveys their employees could take anonymously. The surveys measured attributes ranging from trust in company leaders and colleagues to satisfaction with pay and benefits.

In order to complete the competition, companies were required to have a certain percentage of their employees take the survey. The percentage varied by company size and employee surveys were tabulated into scores by Quantum Workplace, and these scores determined the 10 finalists in each size category.

Some of the company’s lucrative employee benefits include: full, company-paid health, vision and dental benefits, corporate Albuquerque Isotopes tickets and a 401K plan in which, after the third year of employment, HB Construction contributes up to 25 percent of the employee’s annual salary into a retirement fund.