It was a full house Thursday night at the City National Grove of Anaheim, where hundreds of employees and their bosses gathered to fete Orange County’s Top Workplaces.
The 11th annual program honored 140 local companies and organizations.
The large company winner was Experian in Costa Mesa. The midsize winner was Moulton Niguel Water District, followed by the small company winner, SetSchedule of Irvine.
The event’s keynote speaker was Shola Richards, an author known for his kindness and moniker “Brother Teresa,” a nod to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Roman Catholic nun and missionary.
“If you want to go fast, go alone,” he said. “But if you want to go far, go together.”
The annual program celebrates Orange County companies, organizations and nonprofits that embrace an inclusive workplace culture that elevates each employee.
Starting in June, the Register nominations from firms and organizations, as long as they had at least 35 employees in the county. Participants could be public, private, nonprofit or governmental.
Survey partner Energage of Philadelphia invited 1,274 employers in the county to take the free employee survey. In all, 196 organizations employing 40,564 people in the county agreed to participate. Of those employees who received questionnaires, 24,187 responded, either on paper or online.
The Top Workplaces 2018 list of winners includes 15 large companies (those with 500 or more employees in the county), 45 medium-sized companies or organizations (100-499 workers) and 80 small businesses (35-99 employees).
Large company winners
6. Rosendin Electric, Inc.
7. MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center
8. BEHRProcess Corp.
9. American Advisors Group
10. Fullerton School District
11. MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center
12. MemorialCare Shared Services
13. Silverado Senior Living
14. Placentia-Yorba Linda USD
15. MemorialCare Medical Group
Mid-size company winners
1. Moulton Niguel Water District
3. Service Champions Heating & Air Conditioning
6. Edward Jones
7. Zillow Group
8. CBE Office Solutions
9. Seneca Family of Agencies
10. Roth Staffing Companies, L.P.
11. Parcel Pending
12. TAIT & ASSOCIATES
13. Aldi
14. Online Trading Academy
15. Americor Funding, Inc.
16. John Patterson’s OC Auto Team
17. Toshiba America Business Solutions
18. Freedom Village Continuing Care Retirement Community
19. Fuscoe Engineering, Inc.
20. CrowdStrike Inc.
21. DreamHost
22. Nations Direct Mortgage, LLC
23. Glaukos Corp.
24. Trace3
25. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
26. Jones Lang LaSalle
27. Toll Brothers, Inc.
28. CyberCoders
29. Reborn Cabinets
30. Ferry International, LLC
31. Credit Union of Southern California
32. Hoag Orthopedic Institute, LLC
33. Mobilityware
34. Burns & McDonnell
35. MS International, Inc
36. Astronics Test Systems
37. Pacific Mercantile Bank
38. Fluidmaster
39. Love 2 Learn Consulting LLC
40. Main Electric Supply
41. Lyon Living
42. Stance
43. Advanced Management Company & R³ Construction Services, Inc.
44. Medical Specialties Managers, Inc.
45. Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
Small company winners
2 Sidepath
3 Vincit
4 QYKSonic
6 SureFire CPR
7 RailPros
8 Regents Capital Corporation
9 DEB Construction, LLC
10 Ytel, Inc.
11 H. Hendy Associates
12 Signature Resources – MassMutual
13 Plutos Sama
14 SendGrid
15 Athens Administrators
16 TechMD
17 Paramount Residential Mortgage Group, Inc.
18 Advanced Behavioral Health
19 RiverRock Real Estate Group
20 QuestSoft
21 theLender
22 PeopleG2
23 Swift Health Systems dba INBRACE
24 Visioneering Studios, Inc.
25 Seabreeze Management Company, Inc.
26 MFour Mobile Research
27 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire
28 Kimco Staffing Services/KTimeHR
29 Kagan Publishing & Professional Development
30 College Works Painting
31 Coury and Buehler PT
32 Everest Escrow
33 W. L. Butler
34 QALO
35 SCI Lighting Solutions
36 Orion Lending
37 LCPtracker, Inc.
38 Orange County Rescue Mission
39 BigRentz, Inc.
40 Consolidated Contracting Services, Inc.
41 Earth Friendly Products
42 Wes-Tec, Inc
43 Technologent
44 Veri-Tax
45 Momentum Group
46 Edinger Medical Group
47 Orion Risk Management
48 Boy Scouts of America
49 Realty ONE Group
50 True Recovery, Inc.
51 Healthy Smiles for Kids of OC
52 Smart Circle
53 Pro-Dex, Inc.
54 Tevora
55 Radiant Health Centers
56 Savills Studley
57 CPS Insurance Services
58 Unire Real Estate Group
59 Portfolio
60 Ephesoft
61 Sober Living By The Sea
62 Western Resources Title Company
63 CleanCut Technologies
64 Sourcing Solutions LLC
65 American Income Life – Orange County
66 Voxx Analytics, LLC
67 BluePoint Mortgage
68 Tutton Insurance Services, Inc.
69 Buchalter
70 Integrated Project Services, LLC
71 Trafalgar
72 Kush Bottles
73 Wunderman
74 Robert Half
75 On Target Solutions, LLC
76 Brown & Streza
77 Roland DGA Corporation
78 Murow|CM
79 Netwrix
80 Thermal-Vac Technology, Inc.