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CONTENTS
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PROFESSIONAL
RESPECT
Cummings & Co. is built
on relationships
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THE LARGE LIST
The top large workplaces
METHODOLOGY
How Top Workplaces was
compiled
BACK AGAIN
WITH CARE
A Q&A with Daniel J. Schrider
of Sandy Spring Bank
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TOP HONORS
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BALANCING
WORK & LIFE
Recognition for excellence
Internet Testing Systems
cares for its workers
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THE MIDSIZE LIST
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PIONEERING
LEADERSHIP
The top midsize workplaces
A Q&A with Linda Jacobs
of The Harbour School
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SHARED GOALS
Trust Auto aims for
collaboration
THE SMALL LIST
The top small workplaces
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FROM THE GROUND UP
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TALK THE TALK
A Q&A with Russell Fleming
of Fleming Fund Services
To our readers
Welcome to Baltimore Sun Media’s 12th
annual Top Workplaces.
A lot has changed in the world of work
since 2011, when the nation was just
crawling its way out of a deep recession and recovering from the housing
bust. The economy, and therefore work,
hummed along for a few years there, but
then came the coronavirus pandemic,
which upended everything.
Many workplaces closed for a while;
others went remote.
Supply chains were
disrupted. (Who’d
have thought
toilet paper and
lumber would grow
so scarce?) As things
slowly reopened,
labor was also in short
supply. Along came
Dinsmore
the Great Resignation as people either
retired or took advantage of the demand
to job-hop. Employers focused more on
work-life balance. Some workers just
quiet-quit, doing the minimum to hold on
to their jobs.
But, as the saying goes, the more things
change, the more things stay the same.
Baltimore’s Top Workplaces remained
remarkably consistent through the
wrenching change: Cummings & Co.
Realtors, RK&K, FutureCare, WPM Real
Estate Management, Internet Testing
Systems, Northwestern Mutual, NFM
Lending, Continental Realty, Resolute
Technologies, Intelligenesis, Kramon &
Graham.
These firms and others listed here
have been consistently among Baltimore’s Top Workplaces for many years,
but one has been there all 12: the KatzAbosch accounting firm based in Lutherville-Timonium. I tip my hat to the firm’s
consistency.
Within the pages of this magazine,
you’ll find profiles of the top-ranked
firms among The Sun’s Top Workplaces,
interviews with those recognized as top
leaders and the lists of other winners.
For Top Workplaces, The Sun again
worked with Energage, an employee
research and consulting firm based in
Philadelphia. Energage strives to help
firms create places where people want to
work and collaborates with many news
organizations on similar projects.
Thanks to those who participated this
year, and I invite those who didn’t to participate next year.
Christopher Dinsmore is The Baltimore
Sun’s director of content for news and development.
Top Worplaces walk the
walk with employees
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