FOX NEWS MEDIA EARNS DESIGNATION AS A 2020 GREAT PLACE TO WORK-CERTIFIED™ COMPANY
NEW YORK – September 24, 2020 – FOX News Media has earned the designation as a 2020 Great Place to Work-Certified™ Company, announced its CEO Suzanne Scott. The Certification marks the first time FOX News Media has been awarded the honor in its 24 year existence.
In making the announcement, Ms. Scott said, “We are extraordinarily proud to receive the Great Place to Work-Certified™ designation. This is an extremely special honor and incredibly meaningful for us as it signifies that FOX News Media employees value the inclusive, innovative and collaborative environment we’ve collectively worked hard to cultivate over the last several years.”
Sarah Lewis-Kulin, Vice President of Best Workplace List Research at Great Place to Work, added, “We congratulate FOX News Media, on their Certification. Organizations that earn their employees’ trust create great workplace cultures that deliver outstanding business results.”
Using validated employee feedback gathered with Great Place to Work’s rigorous, data-driven methodology, Certification confirms nearly eight out of 10 employees rate FOX News Media as a great place to work. The Certification follows an enhanced focus from the organization on fostering a transparent, collaborative and inclusive workplace culture. These efforts have included creating a Diversity and Inclusion Council, modernizing infrastructure and company workspaces, as well as developing several mentoring programs and employee resource groups.
FOX News Media has also enhanced internal communications, adding quarterly company-wide addresses conducted by senior leadership, developed monthly networking events and revamped mandatory harassment and discrimination prevention compliance training. As a result, employee feedback through the Great Place to Work survey confirmed that over 80% of FOX News Media employees believe that the company gives people a lot of responsibility (85%), access to resources (82%) and encourages work/life balance (86%).
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees around the world and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Great Place to Work helps organizations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating a high-trust work experience for all employees. Emprising®, their culture management platform, empowers leaders with the surveys, real-time reporting, and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Their unparalleled benchmark data is used to recognize Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies and the Best Workplaces™ in the US and more than 60 countries, including the 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World’s Best list published annually in Fortune.
FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio and the direct-to-consumer digital streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for more than 18 consecutive years, while FBN currently ranks among the top business channels on cable. Owned by FOX Corporation, FOX News Media reaches 200 million people each month.
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