Ocean Tomo Recognized for Exemplary Workplace Practices

<p><location value="LU/us.il.chicgo" idsrc="xmltag.org">Chicago, IL</location> (PRWEB) <chron>August 24, 2011</chron></p><p><a href="http://oceantomo.com/">Ocean Tomo</a>, the Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc™ firm, has been honored with the 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility for its use of flexibility as an effective workplace strategy to increase business and employee success.</p><p>This prestigious award, part of the national <a href="http://www.whenworkworks.org/">When Work Works</a> project, recognizes employers of all sizes and types in the <location value="LU/us.il.chicgo" idsrc="xmltag.org">Chicago</location> area and across the country.</p><p>“We are thrilled to receive this recognition for our workplace practices,” said <person>Mary Lou Chuinard</person>, Ocean Tomo’s Director of Operations. “Ocean Tomo’s culture is a key differentiator when recruiting new professionals.”</p><p>At Ocean Tomo, workplace flexibility—such as flextime, part-time work and compressed workweeks—has been demonstrated to help businesses remain competitive while also benefiting employees as well.</p><p>“Ocean Tomo has enabled me to design a career path that is geared specifically toward my goals and expectations, allowing me to achieve a work/life balance,” states <person>Sheryl Mikols</person>, a Managing Director in Ocean Tomo’s Expert Services Practice.</p><p>“Our research consistently finds that employees in effective and flexible workplaces have greater engagement on the job and greater desire to stay with their organization. In addition, they report lower stress levels and better overall health,” states <person>Ellen Galinsky</person>, president of <a href="http://www.familiesandwork.org/"><org>Families and Work Institute</org> (FWI)</a>, a research think tank on workforce and workplace trends that administers the awards.</p><p>The Sloan Awards are unique for their rigorous, two-step selection process, which involves an evaluation of employers’ flexibility programs and practices, and a confidential employee survey. All applicants are measured against national norms from FWI’s National Study of Employers.</p><p>“As a recipient of the 2011 Sloan Award, Ocean Tomo ranks in the top 20% of employers nationally in terms of its programs, policies and culture for creating an effective and flexible workplace,” states Galinsky. “In addition, what makes this honor so special is that their employees have corroborated this, affirming that it is indeed an effective and flexible workplace.”</p><p>Ocean Tomo was recently selected as a <a href="http://www.corporatevoices.org/our-work/flexcampaign">Business Champion for Workplace Flexibility</a> by Corporate Voices for Working Families. In 2007, Ocean Tomo was named one of 20 small and mid-sized firms recognized as the Best Places to Work in <location value="LS/us.il" idsrc="xmltag.org">Illinois</location>.</p><p>About <org>Ocean Tomo, LLC</org><br /> Established in 2003, <org>Ocean Tomo, LLC</org>, is the Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc™ firm. The company provides financial products and services related to Intellectual Property, including expert testimony, valuation, research, ratings, investments, risk management and transactions. Ocean Tomo assists clients – corporations, law firms, governments and institutional investors – in realizing Intellectual Capital Equity® value broadly defined.</p><p>Headquartered in <location value="LU/us.il.chicgo" idsrc="xmltag.org">Chicago</location>, Ocean Tomo has offices in Greenwich, <location value="LU/us.ca.orange" idsrc="xmltag.org">Orange County</location> and <location value="LU/us.ca.sanfrn" idsrc="xmltag.org">San Francisco</location>. Subsidiaries of Ocean Tomo include: <org>Ocean Tomo Risk Management, LLC</org>; <org>Ocean Tomo Asset Management, LLC</org>; <org>OTI Data Networks, LLC</org>; <org>Patent Marking, LLC</org>; and <org>Ocean Tomo Capital, LLC</org> – publisher of the Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index family. Ocean Tomo is the founder of the <org>Intellectual Property Exchange International (IPXI), Inc.</org> as well as the exclusive licensee and distributor of PatentRatings® system. Visit OceanTomo.com for more details. @OTInsights</p><p>ABOUT WHEN WORK WORKS <br /> When Work Works is a leading national initiative to help businesses of all sizes and types become more successful by transforming the way they view and adopt effective and flexible workplaces. When Work Works is one of the foremost providers of rigorous research and employer best practices on workplace effectiveness and flexibility in the nation, and administers the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility annually, which recognize exemplary employers for using flexibility as an effective workplace strategy to increase business and employee success. <a href="http://www.whenworkworks.org">http://www.whenworkworks.org</a> @FWInews</p><p>###</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/8/prweb8668385.htm">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/8/prweb8668385.htm</a></p>