Unveiling the Finalists for the 2022 Canada Best Places To Work Awards
The contenders for the 2022 Canada Best Places To Work Awards have been unveiled. Electronic Arts and Relic Entertainment are nominees in four categories, while Behaviour Interactive has received three nominations. These finalists are for the Special Awards, which recognize excellence in specific areas. The winners of these awards, along with the main Best Places badge winners, will be revealed on October 18th during a digital awards ceremony. Our special categories aim to highlight exceptional work by companies in areas such as combating climate change, supporting charitable causes, promoting a healthy workforce, fostering diversity, and collaborating with educational institutions. We also present an award for the Canada games industry's Best Boss, previously won by Relic's Heidi Eaves. Over 50 Canada-based games companies participated in the awards, with each having the opportunity to win one of these special prizes. For information on the judging process, please click here. The Best Places To Work Awards Canada is presented in partnership with MEGAMIGS and La Guilde du jeu vidéo du Québec. The 2022 Awards finalists are: The Corporate Social Responsibility Award: Behaviour Interactive, Electronic Arts, Gameloft Montreal, Hyper Hippo, and Virtuos. The Health and Wellbeing Award: Compulsion Games, Electronic Arts, Inflexion Games, Kano, and Relic Entertainment. The Environmental Award: Behaviour Interactive, EA Motive, Gearbox Québec, Relic Entertainment, and Virtuos. The Education Award: Amber, Behaviour Interactive, Blackbird Interactive, Manavoid, and Relic Entertainment. The DEI Award: Affordance Studios, EA Motive, Inflexion Games, Relic Entertainment, and Timbre. Canada Best Boss: Casey Hudson of Humanoid, Heather Price of This Game Studio, Jean-Sylvain Sormany of Snowed In Studio, Marc Beaudet of Turbulent, Rémi Racine of Behaviour Interactive, and Sarah MacKay of Hyper Hippo.