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What is a Certified Amazing Workplace?

Description

Amazing Workplaces genuinely care about the happiness of their employees and customers.

It means that 70% of employees have independently verified that they are often satisfied, happy, or very happy at their workplace. This is very impressive or "amazing." This is no small achievement.

An Amazing Workplace has made a commitment to their employees and customers. Amazing workplaces actively measure and work to improve happiness. It is quite amazing that these workplaces focus on what matters most to their people – happiness.

Recognition

Workplaces may receive certification by conducting a Happiness Conversation through the Amazing Workplace Platform™.  Workplaces who independently verify that 70% or more of their people (employees) often feel satisfied, happy, or very happy are certified as an Amazing Workplace for that calendar year.

How is Employee Happiness Measured?

Accurate, Verified Feelings.
Employee and customer happiness is gathered from actual employees and customers of a workplace. This process starts when workplaces send out a Happiness Conversation to their employees or customers. Employees and customers share how they feel about a workplace across many topics. Using a patent-pending technology, participants verify how they feel overall. The result is the most accurate look at how real employees and real customers feel about a workplace. In fact, results are 99.9% more accurate using our patent-pending feeling verification.
Real Employees. Real Customers.
Amazing Workplace works with companies around the world to gather real feedback from their actual employees and customers. Unlike some online review websites, employees and customers are verified. This means you can, for the first time, read verified employee and customer reviews – knowing that these are real employees, real customers. Maybe those glass doors, indeed… aren’t quite so transparent after all.

Conversations are for People. Surveys are for Monkeys.

Surveys feel like tests. Surveys look like tests. They are simply not fun. Amazing Workplace created the first ever conversation platform. Conversations are interactive, fun, and engaging. Employees and customers actually enjoy them. How do we know? We ask. Over 95% of participants prefer Amazing Workplace conversations over traditional surveys. Participation rates are over twice the industry average thanks to our conversation technology.
Other Review Websites
This score comes from people that have left online reviews of a company. Reviews might be from current or former employees/customers, or they may be from anyone. There is no way to verify that an “employee” or “customer” review is actually from an employee or customer of the company reviewed. Anyone can post a review on “employee” and “customer” review sites. They can do this for any company, at any time, and with no verification that they actually worked for or did business with the company they are reviewing.

Workplace Overview

Well, you certainly can't accuse Financial Institutions of wasting valuable company fundsto createa snazzy name. The holding company owns Five Star Bank, which serves western and central New York through some 50 branches. Serving area businesses and consumers, it offers standard deposit products, such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Subsidiary Five Star Investment Services offers brokerage and financialplanning services. An area of growth for Five Star Bank, indirect consumer loans originated through agreements witharea franchised car dealers account for the largest percentage of the company's loan portfolio, followed by commercial mortgages. Growth in the bank'scommercial and auto loan portfolios,coupled with its conservative underwriting standards,contributed to a 7% increase in earnings forFinancial Institutions in 2011.The bank also writes direct-to-consumer and home equity loans, business loans, residential mortgages, and agricultural loans. In 2012 Five Star Bankacquired four retail branches owned byHSBC Bankand four owned byFirst Niagara Bankin upstate New York. The divestitures were madeto satisfy antitrust concerns regardingFirst Niagara's purchase of 195 branches from HSBC. Five Star Bank was formed in 2005 when thecompany consolidated its four banking subsidiaries (First Tier Bank & Trust, National Bank of Geneva, Wyoming County Bank, and Bath National Bank) into a single entity. First Tier Bank & Trust absorbed the other three banks and changed its name to Five Star Bank.

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Employee Count

600

Founded

2007

Revenue

Unavailable

Type

Private

Headquarters

Warsaw, NY