The Boston Globe Recognizes Globoforce as "Top Place to Work"

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., and DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Globoforce^®, the world's leading provider of social recognition solutions, today announced that it has been named a category winner in this year's Top Places to Work in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe. Click here to read The Boston Globe profile of Globoforce.

Top Places to Work identifies the most progressive companies in the state based on employees' opinions about company leadership, compensation and training, diversity/inclusion, career development, family-friendly flexibility, as well as values and ethics. Private companies, nonprofits and publicly-held businesses were included in the analysis.

“At Globoforce, we help companies around the world build and sustain a culture of recognition,” said Eric Mosley, CEO of Globoforce. “We're truly honored to be recognized for the very thing that makes us successful: engaging employees and creating a workplace of positivity. We thank The Boston Globe for this prestigious award and dedicate it to our employees.”

A leading, cloud-based software company, Globoforce has pioneered the use and innovation of social recognition. Mirroring its industry-leading best practices, the Company boasts one of the most highly-adopted recognition programs in the world. Its internal program, Globostars, recognizes employee performance that aligns to the company's core values of imagination, determination, innovation, and respect. The program connects employees every day and empowers them to recognize each other for deserving behaviors.

About The Boston Globe Top Places to Work

The Boston Globe's 2012 Top Places to Work survey was conducted by WorkPlace Dynamics, an independent company specializing in employee engagement and retention. The Globe invited 1,586 employers to participate in the survey; 304 organizations employing a total of 210,000 people completed the process. Completed surveys were received from 81,907 individuals and rankings are composite scores calculated purely on the basis of these employees' responses.

The Globe's Top Places to Work magazine was published in The Boston Globe on Sunday, November 4. The complete list of honorees for the annual survey can be found online at www.boston.com/topworkplaces.

About The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe is wholly owned by the New York Times Company NYT, a leading global, multimedia news and information company with 2011 revenues of $2.3 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, NYTimes.com, BostonGlobe.com, Boston.com and related properties. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news and information.

About Globoforce

Globoforce is the world's leading provider of social recognition solutions, redefining how companies understand, manage, and motivate their employees. Innovative companies around the world use Globoforce's cloud-based social recognition software to reveal the true performance and influence of every employee and strengthen company culture. With Globoforce, HR and business leaders can take a strategic approach to recognition programs that result in measurable benefits to the bottom line driven by increases in employee engagement, retention, and productivity. Globoforce is co-headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, and Dublin, Ireland.

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