EngageSmart Awarded Gold in 13th Annual Best in Biz Awards’ Best Place to Work Category
BOSTON, December 13, 2023--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EngageSmart, Inc. (NYSE: ESMT), a leading provider of vertically tailored customer engagement software and integrated payments solutions, is a Gold winner in the Best Place to Work - Large Company category in this year’s Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged each year by prominent editors and reporters from top-tier publications in North America.
EngageSmart and its solutions simplify customer and client engagement for over 119,000 customers across the country in the Health & Wellness, Government, Utilities, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Giving spaces. Through solutions SimplePractice, InvoiceCloud, and DonorDrive, EngageSmart helps improve customer engagement so that customers and end-users can have more time in their day. In the past year, EngageSmart has also won the following workplace awards:
The 13th annual program saw intense competition among more than 600 entries from public and private companies, representing industries and regions across the U.S. and Canada and ranging from some of the most iconic global brands to the most innovative start-ups and beloved local companies. This year’s judges highlighted the winning companies’ breadth and depth of innovation, their novel approaches to employing new technologies, impressive workplace benefits, and employee diversity and inclusion programs, as well as continued community involvement and critical investments in environment and corporate social responsibility programs.
"As our company continues to grow, EngageSmart maintains a people-first culture that inspires our team to do great work for our more than 119,000 customers," said EngageSmart Chief People Officer Kristen Kenny. "We’re dedicated to fostering professional and personal development, so it’s an honor to be recognized for our commitment to our team by Best in Biz Awards."
Since the program’s inception in 2011, winners in Best in Biz Awards have been determined by independent judging panels assembled each year from some of the most respected national and local newspapers, TV and radio outlets, and business, consumer, technology, and trade publications in North America. Thanks to the expertise and experience of the editors and reporters serving as judges and the impressive diversity of outlets they represent, Best in Biz Awards judging panels are uniquely suited to objectively determine the best of the best from among the hundreds of competitive entries. The 2023 judging panel included, among others, writers and contributors to Ad Age, Computerworld, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc., Portland Tribune, and Washington Post.
"As in years past, determining winners in some categories was a matter of selecting the very best from among the very good and came down to the smallest details," said Best in Biz Awards staff. "Each year, the judges are impressed by the innovations, growth, and change emanating from the winning companies and permeating across layers of society, from their employees through clients to local and global communities."
About EngageSmart
EngageSmart is a leading provider of vertically tailored customer engagement software and integrated payments solutions. At EngageSmart, our mission is to simplify customer and client engagement to allow our customers to focus resources on initiatives that improve their businesses and better serve their communities. EngageSmart offers single instance, multi-tenant, true Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") vertical solutions, including SimplePractice, InvoiceCloud, and DonorDrive, that are designed to simplify our customers’ engagement with their clients by driving digital adoption and self-service. As of September 30, 2023, EngageSmart serves 116,200 customers in the SMB Solutions segment and 3,400 customers in the Enterprise Solutions segment across several core verticals: Health & Wellness, Government, Utilities, Financial Services, and Giving. For more information, visit www.engagesmart.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
About Best in Biz Awards
Since 2011, Best in Biz Awards has been the only independent business awards program judged by a who’s who of prominent reporters and editors from top-tier publications from North America and around the world. Over the years, judges in the prestigious awards program have ranged from Associated Press to the Wall Street Journal and winners have spanned the spectrum, from blue-chip companies that form the bedrock of the global economy to some of the world’s most innovative start-ups and nimble local companies. Each year, Best in Biz Awards honors are conferred in two separate programs: North America and International, and in 100 categories, including company, team, executive, product, and CSR, media, PR and other categories. For more information, visit: http://www.bestinbizawards.com.
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