FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®
Nomination and Application Process
Is my company eligible to participate?
Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible, an organization must meet all of the following requirements:
- Have a minimum of 1,000 regular full- and part-time U.S employees for the duration of the selection process. ("Regular" employees does not include temporary employees, interns etc.)
- Have been in operation for at least seven (7) years by the nomination deadline. If the organization existed in a different form (e.g. part of another company, under a different name) they are eligible to participate as long as there are employees who have been working at the company for seven years or more.
- Government agencies are not eligible. A governmental agency is defined as an arm of the government or an organization where any leaders are appointed by government official or are elected by the community.
If your organization is a private company or a non-profit whose leaders are appointed by government officials or elected by the public, this would make you ineligible.
- A company is not eligible if it is going through a merger/acquisition that adds 25% or more to their U.S. employee population at any time throughout the year in which the process occurs. Any company who has recently undergone a merger/acquisition that added 25% to their U.S. employee population must have closed on the merger/acquisition by the December before the nomination deadline (e.g., by December 31, 2007 to participate in the list published in January 2009). If your company goes through a divestiture impacting more than 25% of your U.S. employee population at any time during the selection process, we request that you bring this to our attention and we will follow-up with you for more information.
- Companies must apply on behalf of the whole organization. In other words, subsidiaries of larger organizations are typically only eligible for participation along with the parent organization. For example, if a parent company owns two independently operating U.S. subsidiaries in the same industry, they will need to apply as the parent organization, including both subsidiaries. If a hospital is owned by a larger Health System, the Health System will need to apply as a whole, including all hospitals, nursing homes and any other entities that are owned by the larger organization.
- To protect the integrity of our Best Companies lists and ensure that no one participating company will have an unfair advantage and/or insider information regarding the selection process, any company that currently is or in the past has collaborated with Great Place to Work® Institute, Inc. to produce one of our U.S Best Companies lists and/or has served as a vendor with direct access to proprietary instruments, processes, or data, will be ineligible to participate in either of our U.S. Best Companies list processes. Please note: we anticipate that this restriction is only applicable to a very small number of organizations. If you have questions as to whether this applies to your organization, we invite you to contact the Best Companies Team.
If you are unsure if your company meets all of the above requirements, we encourage you to fill out the nomination form so we can review the specific details of your organization’s circumstances. We are generally unable to provide a definitive answer until we’ve gathered and carefully reviewed all the details.
»» How do I nominate my company?
Submit your Nomination Form Now!
We are accepting nominations for the 2010 100 Best list until March 31, 2009.
Click the green arrow to access the online nomination form:
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