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Waterloo Area's Top
Employers (2024)
Winners from our 17th annual editorial competition
Employees at Kitchener-based WalterFedy receive two paid days off annually to volunteer with community organizations.

About the Competition

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Waterloo-based eSentire helps employees stay healthy with an online platform, fitness challenges, virtual yoga classes and occasional visits from a therapy dog. (Photo: G.Ramos)

Background

Now in its 17th year, Waterloo Area's Top Employers is an annual competition organized by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers. Canada's Top Employers for Young People This special designation recognizes the employers in the Kitchener-Waterloo area that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work. This year's winners were announced in a special feature published in the Waterloo Region Record and Guelph Mercury Tribune on November 30, 2023.


Cambridge-based ATS Corp. provides ongoing professional development, tuition subsidies for outside courses, and loans to buy new computers and tools.

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At Waterloo-based eSentire helps employees stay healthy with an online platform, fitness challenges, virtual yoga classes and occasional visits from a therapy dog. (Photo: G.Ramos)

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Cambridge-based ATS Corp. provides ongoing professional development, tuition subsidies for outside courses, and loans to buy new computers and tools.

Selection Process

Employers are evaluated by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers using the same eight criteria as the national competition: (1) Workplace; (2) Work Atmosphere & Social; (3) Health, Financial & Family Benefits; (4) Vacation & Time Off; (5) Employee Communications; (6) Performance Management; (7) Training & Skills Development; and (8) Community Involvement. Employers are compared to other organizations in their field to determine which offers the most progressive and forward-thinking programs.


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ATS Corporation ensures that employees have access to the tools and resources they need to succeed, offering ongoing professional development opportunities, tuition subsidies for courses taken at outside institutions, and loans for the purchase of new computers and tools

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Sleeman Breweries offers employee financial incentives, including year-end bonuses, referral bonuses, and free company products ('Beer Privilege').

Media Partners

Our media partners on the Waterloo Area's Top Employers project are the Waterloo Region Record and Guelph Mercury-Tribune. Each year, the winners of the competition are announced in a special magazine co-published with both newspapers. For our detailed Reasons for Selection, please review the full list of winners. Publishing detailed Reasons for Selection is a distinguishing feature of our competition: it provides transparency in the selection of winners and "raises the bar" so that other employers can discover and adopt initiatives that work well elsewhere.


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Sleeman Breweries offers employee financial incentives, including year-end bonuses, referral bonuses, and free company products ('Beer Privilege').

Eligibility Requirements

Any employer with its head office or principal place of business in the Kitchener-Waterloo or Guelph area may apply for this competition. For ease of reference, we define this to include the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph. Employers of any size may apply, whether private or public sector.

2025 Competition

Employer applications for our 2025 competition will be available early in 2024. Our 2025 winners will be announced in the Waterloo Region Record in the fall of 2024. Join our mailing list to stay up to date and receive an application for next year's competition.

Employees at Cambridge-based Farm Mutual Re can sample honey from three onsite apiaries managed by a professional beekeeper.
Employees at Cambridge-based Farm Mutual Re can sample honey from three onsite apiaries managed by a professional beekeeper.
The founding partner of Guelph-based RWDI, Peter Irwin, looks on as Derek Kelly operates a windflow visualization tool on a scale-model of a Shanghai skyscraper project.
The founding partner of Guelph-based RWDI, Peter Irwin, looks on as Derek Kelly operates a windflow visualization tool on a scale-model of a Shanghai skyscraper project.

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