Both Credit Acceptance Corp. and Prestige Financial Services each recently received honors for how great their workplaces are.

Credit Acceptance was among the 2016 Top Workplaces honored by The Detroit Free Press, having been named the No. 2 workplace in the large company category. This accolade marked the fifth year in a row that Credit Acceptance has won a Detroit Free Press Top Workplace honor.

Additionally, the finance company was one of five companies to receive a Circle of Excellence award for consistently ranking among the top workplaces in Michigan.

“Credit Acceptance was selected from among hundreds of companies vying for a place on the list,” the company said. “Our ranking was based solely on the results of a team member survey administered by WorkplaceDynamics, a leading research firm that specializes in organizational health and workplace improvement.

“Several aspects of our workplace culture were measured, including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few,” Credit Acceptance added.

Meanwhile, Prestige Financial Services was named a Top Workplace by the Salt Lake Tribune’s annual ranking of Utah businesses. Prestige placed No. 1 on the list of large companies in northern Utah. Nearly 100 businesses were surveyed with 20,624 employees completing anonymous questionnaires.

Prestige employees have rated it among the region’s best workplaces for three years in a row.

Prestige was founded in 1994 as an affiliate of the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies. Today, Prestige manages a portfolio of more than $1 billion contracts and does business with dealerships across the country.

In recent years, the Larry H. Miller Group has emphasized its founder’s vision of being the best place in town to work and the best place in town to do business. Prestige scored high marks as a happy, satisfying and rewarding place to work, according to an in-depth study conducted by WorkplaceDynamics.

“They treat you like family and really care about you and your personal growth,” one employee told WorkplaceDynamics pollsters. “I have been with this company for 15 years, and I could not imagine working anywhere else.”

Others at Prestige praised its caring environment, flexibility, sense of purpose and emphasis on learning — in an industry with a reputation of being hard-driving and focused only on results.

“The job is stressful; however, the atmosphere makes it easier to deal with the stress,” another Prestige employee said in the anonymous survey. “Managers care. You are treated like a human being, not just another employee.”

Prestige employees also stated they had the ability to work their way up in the company and were appreciative of special personal gestures by managers and its president, Bryant Henrie, a top executive with the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies.

“We try to live by the values exemplified in the lives of our founders, Larry and Gail Miller,” said Henrie, who tries to live and teach the company values are core to the group's culture which includes integrity, hard work, stewardship, service to others and enriching lives.

“We try to keep our focus on the individual, whether that's an employee or a customer," Henrie continued. “If our employees feel appreciated and valued, that translates directly to how our customers are treated.”

Prestige has grown to nearly 575 employees, up from 249 when Henrie took over Prestige at the request of chief executive officer Greg Miller in 2009. During the same period, turnover has dropped from 60 percent yearly to about 20 percent.

This spring, Prestige will relocate into a new 130,000-square-foot office in Draper, Utah, designed with employees in mind. The facility will include a fully equipped cafeteria and rooms devoted to wellness, games and quiet time.