Top Local Workplaces 2025 Official Social Contest Rules

The Top Local Workplace Awards winners were selected from Homebase’s active U.S. customer database (as of January 1, 2025) based on key criteria like flexibility, employee engagement, personal connection, transparency, and smart use of tools that support accuracy and automation.

CONTEST DESCRIPTION:

The Top Local Workplaces 2025 social celebration (the “Contest”) is a recognition-based campaign hosted by Homebase, where local businesses and their teams can enter by sharing public social posts that celebrate their team culture. Entries must tag Homebase and a local business to be eligible for prize consideration.

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TERM & CONDITIONS:

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE THE CHANCES OF WINNING.

  1. Sponsor: The Sponsor for this Contest  is Pioneer Works, Inc dba Homebase (“Homebase”).
  1. Eligibility: To be eligible, participants must post a public message on Instagram, LinkedIn, X, or Facebook between May 6–30, 2025 Pacific  Time, tag Homebase and tag another local business, based in the United States. Multiple entries allowed, but each must meet criteria.  
  1. Agreement to rules:  By entering the Contest, the contestant (“You”) agree to comply with and abide by these Rules and the decisions of Homebase, and you represent and warrant that you meet the eligibility requirements. In addition, You agree to accept the decisions of Homebase as final and binding as it relates to the Contest. Entrants should look solely to the Sponsor with any questions, comments or issues related to the contest.
  1. Entry Period: The Contest begins on 06 May, 2025 at 8:00AM EDT and ends on 30 May, 2025 at 11:59PM PST. Entries submitted before or after the Entry Period will not be eligible.
  1. How to Enter: 

To enter, participants must post publicly on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, or X between May 6 and May 30, 2025 Pacific Time. Eligible entries must:

  • Tag Homebase
  • Tag another local business, based in the United States

Entries may be photo, video, or written caption-based. Participants may enter multiple times with unique posts. Entries must remain publicly viewable for the duration of the Contest period. No purchase is necessary to enter or win.

  1. Prizes: The winners of the Contest will receive the following prizes:
    • One (1) grand prize winner and their tagged business will each receive $2,500.

    • Three (3) additional weekly winner pairs will each receive $500 per business

    • U.S. winners receiving $600 or more in total prize value will be required to complete a W-9 form and may be issued a 1099-NEC. 
  1. Winner Selection and Notification: Winners will be selected by a panel set by Sponsor and based on originality, clarity, team spirit, and relevance to the Top Local Workplaces 2025 theme. Winners will be notified via DM or email. If a potential winner cannot be contacted within five (5) days, an alternate may be selected.
  1. Rights Granted by the Entrant: By entering the Contest, You understand and agree that the Sponsor and anyone acting on behalf of the Sponsor or its respective licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the Contest, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes without any further compensation, notice, review, or consent. By entering this content, you represent and warrant that your entry is an original work of authorship, and does not violate any third party’s proprietary or intellectual property rights. If your entry infringes upon the intellectual property right of another, you will be disqualified at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. If the content of your entry is claimed to constitute infringement of any proprietary or intellectual proprietary rights of any third party, you shall, at your sole expense, defend or settle against such claims. You shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Sponsor from and against any suit, proceeding, claims, liability, loss, damage, costs or expense, which Sponsor may incur, suffer, or be required to pay arising out of such infringement or suspected infringement of any third party’s right.
  1. Terms and Conditions: The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest should virus, bug, non-authorized human intervention, fraud, or other cause beyond the Sponsor’s control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, or proper conduct of the Contest.  In such cases, the Sponsor may select a winner(s) from eligible entries received before and/or after the action taken by the Sponsor if appropriate. The Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual who tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or violates these Terms & Conditions. The Sponsor will provide any Winner with a prize valued above $600 with a 1099-MISC. The Sponsor  will need the Winner's Social Security number or taxpayer identification number to file the 1099-MISC form. Failure to provide the required information in a timely manner may result in your prize being forfeited. Any prize winner of any amount is solely responsible for any taxes. 
  1. Limitation of Liability: By entering the Contest you agree to release and hold harmless Sponsor and its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers and directors from any liability, illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from (i) such entrant’s participation in the Contest and/or his/her acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof; (ii) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the Contest; (iii) electronic or human error in the administration of the Contest  or the processing of entries; (iv) technical errors of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunction of any computer, cable, network, hardware, or software, or other mechanical equipment; (v) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions, telephone, or Internet service; (vi) printing errors; (vii) lost, late, postage due, misdirected, or undeliverable mail.
  1. Disputes: This Contest is governed by the laws of United States, without respect to conflict of law doctrines. By participating in this Contest, you agree that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before either American Arbitration Association or Judicial Alternatives and Mediation Service unless you have notified Sponsor of opting out of arbitration within seven (7) days of entering the Contest.  In the event of arbitration opt out, matters must be settled in court located in the appropriate US jurisdiction.  Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances shall You be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorney’s fees, or actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e. costs associated with entering the Contest). You further waive all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
  1. Winners List: To request a copy of the winners list please contact the Sponsor. Requests must be sent within four (4) weeks of the end of the Contest period.
  1. No Endorsement: The Contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook, X, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, LinkedIn or any other social networks that are used to share the Contest. You understand that you are providing your information to the owner of the Contest and not to Facebook, X, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, LinkedIn or any other social networks.
  1. Acceptance of Rules: By participating in the Contest, You have affirmatively reviewed, accepted, and agreed to all of the Official Rules, Terms and Conditions.

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