McConkey is a best place to work because we strive to be. We listen to our employees’ feedback, monitor industry trends and continuously evaluate how we can be better. Our employees have enjoyed the minimum 15 days of PTO, plus 2 extra inclement weather days and even 4 hours of Vaccine Time Off. Everyone enjoys profit sharing. They appreciate their 37.5-hour work week, for which there are four schedules to choose from to provide better work-life balance for our employees. All insurance-related continuing education and materials are paid for. It all goes back to our idea that if you take care of your team, they’ll take care of your clients, and the rest will take care of itself. It’s a culture we have fostered for 131 years. Unique to our industry, all employees are salary-based, meaning our entire team from owners to admin to account executives work as a team, not competing with each other. Our intentional focus on our core values nurtures an environment where everyone is approachable, engaged and accessible. Everyone knows one another by name, and we work side-by-side to provide customized solutions for our clients. At McConkey, we work hard and we play hard. From company outings to Escape Rooms, family snow tubing to parking lot cookouts, Christmas parties to First Friday breakfasts, McConkey likes to bring fun and show appreciation for everyone’s hard work and effort. When COVID-19 sent us all to work from home, the fun continued remotely because not even a pandemic can stand in the way of our culture. In the interest of maintaining the culture that we’ve all come to know and love, McConkey has offered virtual happy hours, Bingo games, caricature contests, lunchtime cooking shows, a surprise musical performance, a magic show and more. In lieu of our normal annual Christmas party, McConkey made sure all 100+ employees were sent “party kits” and we enjoyed a virtual Christmas party with a bartending lesson, holiday songs, a visit from Santa for the kids and more. McConkey is the Best Place to Work because we don’t know of one other company who has gone even a comparable distance amid a global pandemic to ensure their culture and company atmosphere never wavered.