Thoughtful innovation is the soul of the new machine: Winners of the 2018 'Canada's Top 100 Employers' competition are announced

TORONTO, Nov. 7, 2017 /CNW/ - At a time when people are increasingly asking pointed questions about the social and economic effects of unregulated technological change, it might come as a surprise that a few remarkable employers are using 'thoughtful innovation' to drive their businesses forward – and bring their employees along. These organizations were recognized as this year's winners of the Canada's Top 100 Employers competition, announced this morning in The Globe and Mail.

"The best employers recognize that they need to innovate thoughtfully to keep moving forward," says Richard Yerema, Managing Editor of the Canada's Top 100 Employers project. "But the challenge is to evolve with changes in technology and employee expectations while maintaining the goal of creating better workplaces that align the needs of their business with those of their employees."

This year's competition saw a record number of employers take part in the selection process, with an increased number of applicants from all regions of the country. Mediacorp editors started by examining the recruitment histories of over 90,000 employers that it tracks for its popular job-search engine, Eluta.ca. From this pool, Mediacorp invited approximately 7,500 employers to submit detailed applications, including a comprehensive review of their operations and HR practices that compares them to others in their industry and region. Employers interested in next year's competition may also request an application online.

"We are witnessing a remarkable transformation in the nature of work," says Kristina Leung, Senior Editor at Mediacorp. "Organizations must be open to change so they are able to adapt and make innovation a priority, whether it's using new HR technology or stimulating employee creativity to find new and better ways of doing things."

Now entering its 19th year, the Canada's Top 100 Employers competition is an editorial project that recognizes employers with exceptional human resources programs and forward-thinking workplace policies. Editors at Mediacorp grade employers on eight criteria, which have remained consistent since the project's inception: (1) Physical Workplace; (2) Work Atmosphere & Social; (3) Health, Financial & Family Benefits; (4) Vacation & Time-Off; (5) Employee Communications; (6) Performance Management; (7) Training & Skills Development; and (8) Community Involvement. The editors publish detailed reasons for selection and grades for these criteria, providing transparency in the selection of winners and a 'catalogue of best-practices' for employers and job- seekers alike.

Founded in 1992, Mediacorp Canada Inc. is the nation's largest publisher of employment periodicals. Since 1999, the Toronto-based publisher has managed the Canada's Top 100 Employers project, which includes 18 regional and special-interest editorial competitions that reach over 13 million Canadians annually through a variety of magazine and newspaper partners, including The Globe and Mail. Mediacorp also operates Eluta.ca, the largest Canadian job search engine, which includes editorial reviews from the Canada's Top 100 Employers project. Together with Willis Towers Watson, Mediacorp hosts Canada's largest conference for senior-level HR professionals, the Top Employer Summit. This year's conference takes place April 4-5, 2018 in Toronto.

Attached is the full list of this year's Top 100 winners, which was announced in a national magazine published in The Globe and Mail this morning. The editors' detailed reasons for selecting each winner were also released today on the competition homepage.

Canada's Top 100 Employers
2018 Winners

3M Canada Company (London ON)
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Inc. / APTN (Winnipeg MB)
Accenture Inc. (Toronto ON)
ACL Services Ltd. (Vancouver BC)
Adobe Systems Canada Inc. (Ottawa ON)
Agriculture Financial Services Corporation / AFSC (Lacombe AB)
Air Canada (Saint-Laurent QC)
Alberta Health Services / AHS (Edmonton AB) ArcelorMittal Dofasco G.P. (Hamilton ON)
Bank of Canada (Ottawa ON)
BASF Canada Inc. (Mississauga ON)
Bayer (Mississauga ON)
BC Public Service (Victoria BC)
BDC / Business Development Bank of Canada (Montréal QC)
Bell Canada (Montréal QC)
Best Buy Canada Ltd. (Burnaby BC)
BioWare ULC (Edmonton AB)
Canada Revenue Agency / CRA (Ottawa ON)
Canadian Heritage (Gatineau QC)
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Ltd. (Chalk River ON)
Canadian Tire Corporation Limited (Toronto ON)
Cargill Limited (Winnipeg MB)
Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto (Toronto ON)
CBCL Limited (Halifax NS)
Ceridian HCM Inc. (Winnipeg MB)
CIBC (Toronto ON)
Cisco Systems Canada Co. (Toronto ON)
College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, The (Vancouver BC)
Corus Entertainment Inc. (Toronto ON)
Desjardins Group / Mouvement des caisses Desjardins (Lévis QC)
Diamond Schmitt Architects Inc. (Toronto ON)
Digital Extremes Ltd. (London ON)
EllisDon Corporation (Mississauga ON)
Enbridge Inc. (Calgary AB)
ESIT Advanced Solutions Inc. (Victoria BC)
Export Development Canada (Ottawa ON)
Fidelity Canada (Toronto ON)
Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited (Oakville ON)
Graham Group (Calgary AB)
Hatch Ltd. (Mississauga ON)
Hospital for Sick Children, The (Toronto ON)
IMAX Corporation (Mississauga ON)
Intact Financial Corporation (Toronto ON)
Irving Oil (Saint John NB)
ISM Canada (Regina SK)
Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc. (Montréal QC)
K+S Potash Canada GP (Saskatoon SK)
Keurig Canada Inc. (Montréal QC)
Keyera Corp. (Calgary AB)
KPMG LLP (Toronto ON)
L'Oréal Canada Inc. (Montréal QC)
Labatt Brewing Company Limited (Toronto ON)
Loblaw Companies Limited (Brampton ON)
Manitoba Hydro (Winnipeg MB)
Mars Incorporated (Bolton ON)
McCarthy Tétrault LLP (Toronto ON)
Medavie Blue Cross (Moncton NB)
Mosaic Company, The (Regina SK)
Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Canada (Toronto ON)
National Energy Board (Calgary AB)
National Leasing Group Inc. (Winnipeg MB)
Nature's Path Foods, Inc. (Richmond BC)
NAV CANADA (Ottawa ON)
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP (Montréal QC)
Nuance Communications Canada Inc. (Montréal QC)
OpenText Corporation (Waterloo ON)
PCL Construction (Edmonton AB)
Pembina Pipeline Corporation (Calgary AB)
PepsiCo  Canada  (Mississauga  ON)
Procter & Gamble Inc. (Toronto ON)
R.F. Binnie & Associates Ltd. (Burnaby BC)
Rogers Communications Inc. (Toronto ON)
Royal Bank of Canada (Toronto ON)
Salesforce Canada Corporation (Toronto ON)
Samsung Electronics Canada Inc. (Mississauga ON)
SAP Canada Inc. (Vancouver BC)
Saskatchewan Research Council / SRC (Saskatoon SK)
Schneider Electric Canada Inc. (Mississauga ON)
Sekisui Diagnostics PEI Ltd. (Charlottetown PE)
Shaw Communications Inc. (Calgary AB)
Siemens Canada Limited (Oakville ON)
Simon Fraser University (Burnaby BC)
Stryker Canada Inc. (Hamilton ON)
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto ON)
TD Bank Group (Toronto ON)
Teck Resources Limited (Vancouver BC)
Thomson Reuters Canada Limited (Toronto ON)
Toronto, City of (Toronto ON)
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. / TMMC (Cambridge ON)
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (Ottawa ON)
Ubisoft Toronto Inc. (Toronto ON)
University of New Brunswick / UNB (Fredericton NB)
University of Toronto (Toronto ON)
University of Waterloo (Waterloo ON)
Université de Montréal (Montréal QC)
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union (Vancouver BC)
Verafin Inc. (St. John's NL)
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (Vancouver BC)
World Vision Canada (Mississauga ON)
Yukon, Government of (Whitehorse YT)

SOURCE Mediacorp Canada Inc.

Kristina Leung, Senior Editor, Mediacorp Canada Inc. 416-964-6069 x1464