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Buffalo Lodging Associates Named 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award Winner
Buffalo Lodging Associates, LLC, a growing hotel management company, has received the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for employee engagement. This award recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world.
Despite ongoing disruption and rapid change across the workplace, Gallup found that Buffalo Lodging Associates continues to set the standard for building a thriving, high-performance culture. The organization creates an environment where employees feel valued, heard and equipped to do their best work, even amid complexity and uncertainty.
“Winning the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award is incredibly meaningful because it reflects the culture our teams build every day,” said Ashley Yawn, Corporate Director of Human Resources. “Engagement doesn’t happen by accident, it comes from investing in our managers, listening to our employees, and making sure everyone feels valued and empowered to do their best work every day. This recognition is really about our people and the passion they bring to what they do. When employees feel heard, supported, and connected to their work, great things happen for our teams, our guests, and our company.”
Gallup’s research consistently shows that organizations that prioritize both people and performance are better positioned for long-term success. Gallup’s meta-analysis on team engagement and performance is the most comprehensive workplace study ever conducted, with data on more than 3.3 million employees in 347 organizations across 53 industries and 90 countries. Highly engaged organizations significantly outperform their peers on important business outcomes, including customer ratings, profitability, productivity, turnover, safety incidents, shrinkage, absenteeism, quality, wellbeing and organizational citizenship.
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