Insight announcements A Best Workplace in America? We’ll Take the Love, But Our Passion Runs Deeper Than Awards
By Jen Vasin / 16 Feb 2024
It’s been quite a month for Insight with several accolades casting us among the elite workplaces in North America. As much as we appreciate the love, it only scrapes the surface of what we’re building to be the workplace of choice in the tech industry — and why.
On Tuesday, we were named on the Forbes America's Best Large Employers 2024 list, which ranks the top 500 employers across 25 industries based on employee satisfaction, engagement and growth opportunities. Newsweek honored us last week as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women in 2024, recognizing the companies that are leading the way in gender equality, diversity and inclusion.
Forbes also recently named us among its Canada’s Best Employers 2024.
These accolades are becoming par for the course at Insight and are especially meaningful as we continue to grow as a global Solutions Integrator. After all, our people are our greatest strength. Our clients depend on us to unlock new possibilities for their business. They count on us to find the most creative and effective digital strategies to help them go further, faster.
But achieving a compelling vision for their transformation must start with teammates who feel inspired about their work. It’s not simply a matter of attracting and retaining top talent. Developing true potential and technical acumen is just as crucial.
Since 2019, we’ve implemented over a dozen initiatives to promote a culture of inclusivity, innovation and professional growth. These include:
Innovate@Insight, helping teammates turn their great ideas into patented technology through collaborative patent workshops, Tech Jams, hackathons and technical town halls. We’ve sent 113 patent applications to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and have had 10 patents issued to date.
Professional centers of excellence for recruiting and developing technical and sales talent. This includes our Azure Academy, derived from a high demand for cloud skills, and the Insight Sales Academy, which prepares new teammates for sales careers through four training phases.
Eleven unique Teammate Resource Groups to cultivate diversity awareness, allyship and teammate development.
A Diversity & Inclusion Mentoring Program that encourages professionals to seek mentors beyond their area of expertise, expanding the horizon of what’s possible for their career arc.
Find out how a group of interns used InsightGPT to bring new client insights to our sales teams.
As a forerunner to realizing the business value of generative AI, we’ve also encouraged crowdsourcing to inspire teammates from all corners of the business to discover best use cases for scaling this game-changing technology. Read how we’re saving hundreds of hours in productivity across our team.
These are just a few examples of how we constantly invest in our teammate experience. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone identifies with our core values of hunger, heart and harmony, and believes that Insight is the best place to personally grow.
Our best workplace awards aren’t just something shiny to hang on a wall. They are testaments to the amazing work our teammates do every day, and the culture of excellence and inclusion that we have built together. It’s an honor to see Insight among the world's top brands in terms of competitive and innovative workplaces.
As an industry-leading Solutions Integrator, we are ambitious in our pursuits. We’re carving a new market segment for digital transformation by combining our partners’ world-class technology with our own solutions and services. Being a trailblazer inherently means raising our own high standards, and we are not resting on our latest laurels.
Jen Vasin
Chief Human Resources Officer, Insight
Jen Vasin is Insight’s chief human resources officer, guiding a global human resources team that supports more than 14,000 teammates and leaders. Since joining Insight in 2008, she has helped drive 14 acquisitions, significantly enhanced teammate engagement, and implemented impactful organizational development, leadership, and Diversity & Inclusion programs on a global scale.
