CIBER's Global Solution Center in Tampa Receives Prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Award
December 15 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The CIBER, Inc.
(NYSE:CBR) Global Solution Center in Tampa has been awarded the
Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace
Flexibility. This award is given to organizations of all sizes and
all types across the country that are using workplace flexibility
as a strategy to increase workplace effectiveness and yield
positive business results. Having received this award, CIBER will
also be recognized nationally and be featured in next year's
edition of the Guide to Bold New Ideas for Making Work Works,
published by Families and Work Institute. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010927/CBRLOGO) The Alfred P.
Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility are
part of the When Work Works project, an ongoing initiative of
Families and Work Institute, the Institute for a Competitive
Workforce (an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce), and the
Twiga Foundation. Through When Work Works, these partner
organizations provide research, resources, and recognition to
employers nationwide. The project shares the results of research on
creating effective and flexible workplaces that meet the needs of
the 21st century. "From new forms of flexible work arrangements
that minimize lay-offs, to creative cost-cutting that retains core
medical benefits, to providing financial information and support to
employees, these employers are braving the economic storm through
innovative policies that prevent undue shock to their workplaces
and their employees," said Ellen Galinsky, President, Families and
Work Institute. "We are thrilled to be a second-time winner of the
Alfred P. Sloan award," said Clif Daniel, CIBER Tampa Global
Solution Center Director. "Being flexible is a business necessity
in the current economic climate, allowing us to create a work
environment that supports challenges and rewards our employees,
from hiring on through to retirement. By thinking outside the box,
we are able to recruit and retain top caliber staff that come
on-board and stay on-board because of the culture we've created. In
recognizing that our employees have varied family and life
situations, and respecting those differences, we position ourselves
to help our employees contribute in ways that work for them, all
without confining someone to a cubicle from 9-5 and without
compromising our business model." Now in its fifth year, the
prestigious awards program expanded its application base to
organizations nation-wide for the first time in 2009. With the
introduction of an "at-large" category and 30 participating
communities across the country, any organization in the U.S. was
eligible for the award. Applicants were evaluated in a rigorous
two-step process, first comparing the employer's application to
nationally representative data from Families and Work Institute's
National Study of Employers, and then corroborating the employer
responses through a survey of employees. The Families and Work
Institute (FWI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization
that studies the changing workforce, family and community. As a
preeminent think tank, FWI is known for being ahead of the curve,
identifying emerging issues, and then conducting rigorous research
that often challenges common wisdom and provides insight and
knowledge. As an action tank, FWI conducts numerous studies that
put its research into action and then evaluates the results. Its
purpose is to create research to live by. For more information, see
http://www.familiesandwork.org/. The Institute for a Competitive
Workforce (ICW) is a 501(c)3 affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce and is working to ensure that businesses have access -
today and tomorrow - to an educated and skilled workforce. ICW's
primary responsibilities for the When Work Works project are to
provide support to the communities and connect local initiatives to
national Chamber efforts. For more information, visit
http://www.uschamber.com/icw. The Twiga Foundation is dedicated to
inspiring, promoting and maintaining a family consciousness at
home, in the workplace and in the community. Twiga's primary
responsibilities for the When Work Works project are to provide
support to the communities, acting as a liaison to key stakeholders
in the When Work Works communities to build a broad local
leadership constituency for creating better workplaces that meet
the needs of employees, employers and communities. For more
information, visit http://www.twigafoundation.org/ About CIBER,
Inc. CIBER, Inc. (NYSE:CBR) is a pure-play international system
integration consultancy and outsourcing provider with superior
value-priced services and reliable delivery for both private and
government sector clients. CIBER's services are offered globally on
a project- or strategic-staffing basis, in both custom and
enterprise resource planning (ERP) package environments, and across
all technology platforms, operating systems and infrastructures.
Founded in 1974 and headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colo.,
CIBER now serves client businesses from over 60 U.S. offices, 25
European offices and seven offices in Asia/Pacific. Operating in 18
countries, with more than 8,500 employees and annual revenue of
approximately $1.2 billion, CIBER and its IT specialists
continuously build and upgrade clients' systems to "competitive
advantage status." CIBER is included in the Russell 2000 Index and
the S&P Small Cap 600 Index. CIBER, the Reliable Global IT
Services Partner. http://www.ciber.com/. CIBER Forward-Looking and
Cautionary Statements Statements contained in this release may
constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements
involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially, as discussed in
the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
CIBER undertakes neither intention nor obligation to publicly
update or revise any forward-looking statements. CIBER and the
CIBER logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of CIBER, Inc.
Copyright© 2009.
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