List Application and Evaluation Steps

Leveraging our 25 years of workplace culture insight, we help support you in your efforts to improve your workplace culture and set your business apart from your competitors. That’s why our Best Companies lists are much more than publicity and rankings. The reports and feedback they generate provide practical knowledge and tools to help you transform your workplace.

In addition to our gold-standard recognition and publicity, our best companies lists provide the raw material for reports that deliver:

• Employee trust and engagement measures and benchmarks
• Workplace culture assessment
• Best practices in hiring, two-way communication, employee development, work-life balance, recognition and more

The information below includes important deadlines and steps to participate in one of our upcoming Best Companies List programs.

If you have any questions about the list programs, please contact the Best Companies Team at: (415) 844-2500 ext. 390 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

STEP 1: REGISTRATION DEADLINES & ELIGIBILITY
 

Start your company’s application today!

STEP 2: ASSESSMENT

We distribute our Trust Index^© Employee Survey either on-line or in paper format. (Note that all employee surveys are completely anonymous.) You submit information about your organization’s programs and policies through our Culture Audit^©. Approximately, two-thirds of your results are based on the Trust Index^© employee survey and one-third on the Culture Audit^©.

Note that it is to your benefit to apply as early as possible to take advantage of the multiple survey windows and to allow the most amount of time to complete your Culture Audit^©.  Contact the Best Companies Team at: (415) 844-2500 ext. 390 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you have any questions about the timing for the list process.

STEP 3: EVALUATION

Our best companies evaluators analyze your employee survey data and Culture Audit^© including your programs and policies and judge your results according to the Great Place to Work^® Model.

STEP 4: FEEDBACK

Most organizations decide to use the benchmarks, analysis and survey results generated through this assessment process to measure the health and success of their workplace and pinpoint steps to take that will help them improve their culture and business results. The Trust Index^© Feedback Report and other survey results can be provided within weeks of the survey closing.

STEP 5: RESULTS AND AWARDS

While not all applicants find themselves on a list, all organizations have access to the Feedback Report and other survey results. Successful organizations will be notified if they are recognized as a Best Company and which media partner will be publishing the list. In many countries, recognition also is available through prestigious gala awards ceremonies and through Best Companies-specific executive events, conferences, and presentations.

OUR APPROACH

Integrity, Confidentiality and Positive Recognition

Integrity is the foundation on which our evaluation processes are built.  Without it, there could be no competition, period. It is of utmost importance to us that we "walk our own talk" and foster a strong sense of trust with all participants. This includes our promise to never disclose any information to outside parties should your company not be selected for the "100 Best" list, as well as our commitment to never use employee email addresses for anything other than the survey administration.

"Our Approach" describes our commitment to integrity, confidentiality and positive recognition. It also serves as our non-disclosure document.

Click here to download the document describing Our Approach.

If you are interested in centrally coordinating your list application across several countries, please contact  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  who will assist you with a global applications process.