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Caring as Competitive Advantage

drivers of revenue outperformance by looking at the relative impact of the 58 questions from Great Place To Work’s Trust Index© Employee Survey. At the very top was “Management hires people who fit in well here,” followed closely by “People care about...

Survey Fatigue Is a Bad Excuse

than one source of data to inform your people programs and practices. (For the record, adding the Great Place to Work® Trust Index® survey into your employee engagement and talent management strategies is a best practice, too. It allows you to quantify...

Golden Handcuffs: What Employee Survey Responses Reveal About Burnout

is poor, especially with management Using this definition from WHO, we created a “burnout risk factor index” of nine Trust Index survey statements. When an employee responds positively to only six or fewer statements, they are likely experiencing...

In Their Own Words: LGBTQ+ Employees Share Their Experiences

ideas. Every year, we are proud to partner with thousands of organizations that share our vision. Together, we launch our Trust Index™ Survey, a tool designed to gather and analyze genuine feedback from employees. This effort empowers Certified™...

Can Working in Finance Have Meaning and Purpose? Hell, Yes! Say Employees at the Best Workplaces

company to push for a better, more inclusive America. A dramatic gain of 10 percentage points on the Great Place To Work Trust Index™ employee survey in 2020 was partly about the company living up to its mission and values in a difficult year, says Gale...

4 Research-Backed Ways to Improve Employee Retention in Retail

From Our CEO: Our Chief People Officer Led the Way

the world. After afew weeks on the job, I started to connect with the data and demographics that were a part of our Trust Index© survey that our customers used to collect employee experience feedback from their employees. We asked about gender. We asked...

How Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Drives Pride in Its Workplace Culture

“Our employees think we’re a great place to work and we think we’re a great place to work but we wanted to administer the Trust Index™ survey to validate our assumptions.” And they certainly did: Children’s earned a spot on the 2006 Fortune 100 Best...

LGBTQIA+ Inclusion in the Workplace: How to Spot if Your Company Is Holding Back LGBTQ Employees

as LGBTQ+. But underneath the rainbow Pride flags, is this true? One of the things that businesses value about our Trust Index™ employee survey is that it uncovers the “masked” workplace experiences for different employee groups, including those who...

Corporate Culture: Love Is All You Need

research behind the importance of love in the workplace, recent Great Place To Workresearch reveals that high scores on Trust Index Survey assessment statements such as “People care about each other here” coincide with the highest profit centers, while...

How Often Should You Survey Employees?

to better understand why they’re having a less positive experience. Here at Great Place To Work®, we take our own Trust Index™ survey once a year and run pulse surveys on an as-need basis: Our leadership team rolled out a pulse survey in March to better...

How to Analyze Employee Survey Results

Getting Started on a DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging) Strategy: A Guide for SMBs

hall meetings as well as department meetings, videos and other forms of communication. Conducting pulse surveys, like our Trust Index™, every 90 days to understand perceptions of progress. Providing regular, company-wide reporting on metrics/progress....

The Ultimate Guide to Performance Management: What It Is and How To Do It Right

also help leaders to become more accountable for their team culture. For example, Wellstar used the Great Place To Work® Trust Index™ Survey to help leaders make informed, data-driven decisions about how to best support their teams. Each month, the...

Global Employee Engagement Benchmarks Study Insights

Unlocking the Power of HR Metrics and Analytics to Drive Workplace Success

powerful method to gather actionable feedback, assess culture, and refine policies. Platforms like Great Place To Work’s Trust Index Survey provide organizations with valuable insights into workplace strengths and improvement areas, helping HR teams...

Defining and Living Your Company Core Values: A Roadmap to Building a Purpose-Driven Culture

example, when employees identified issues like “management has a clear vision” as an area for improvement based on their Trust Index™ Survey responses, leadership enacted a three-year plan with transparent progress updates. Wegmans Grocer Wegmans Food...

Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: Why It’s a Game-Changer for Effective Management

the heart of effective leadership and a great company culture, but how do you measure and improve it at scale? With the Trust Index™ Survey and Manager Access feature, leaders gain real-time insights into their own teams' experiences, helping them...

Creating a Culture of Recognition: Tips for Driving Loyalty

best work. See the complete results in the chart below: By narrowing in on several statements in Great Place To Work® Trust Index™ survey that measure how much employees feel recognized at work, we were able to see the impact of recognition culture on...

New Western’s Rahul Yodh on the Importance of Culture for Recruiters

our ongoing efforts to shape a thriving workplace culture. Join the ranks of top workplaces like New Western by using the Trust Index Survey and insights from Great Place To Work What is the No. 1 lesson you have learned about what it means to be a...

Understanding Revenue Per Employee: What Is a Good Revenue Per Employee Ratio & How to Calculate It

— a list of 100 organizations that outperform their peers on metrics of employee trust measured by Great Place To Work’s Trust Index™ survey. These companies far exceed the typical RPE, with an average RPE of $883,928. This outperformance is true...

Week in Review

Company Culture vs. Business Strategy A few weeks ago, Fast Company blogger Shawn Parr, set off a debate that wages on weeks later with his entry, Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch. At its crux is the argument that culture trumps strategy when it comes...

Undercover Boss: A bottom-up approach to realizing profits

Communication is a two-way street Undercover Boss last week featured CEO Sam Taylor of Oriental Trading Company. The company is the largest producer of party supplies, toys and novelties and has over 2,000 employees. The company's mission is to make it...

How Great Workplaces Support Work-Life Balance

named to the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For list this year and the list contenders were their results for thisTrust Index® Employee Survey statement: “Management shows a sincere interest in me as a person, not just an employee.” On average, at...

Does Leading Like Amazon Yield Great Performance?

to excel and seeks to earn their trust in return. "One of the things we watch closely here," Goodnight told me, "is our Trust Index Survey. Every year we ask employees to tell us whether they trust their manager – and whether they have trust in us."...

Client Story: Management Actions In First 6 Months

than those we desire in our personal lives (also those built on trust). My colleague likes to joke about pulling our Trust index© Survey out of the workplace setting to take it with your spouse or partner. She imagines there could be some lengthy...

Is There a Relationship Between Return-to-Office Mandates and Employee Retention?

your team transitions back to the office or continues working remotely? Partner with Great Place To Work and access our Trust Index™ Survey. It’s an effective tool for deeply understandingyour employees' needs and concerns. By working together, we can...

How to be a Profitable Company and a Great Place To Work: A Conversation with Jim Kavanaugh, CEO & CO-Founder of World Wide Technology

Jim Kavanaugh is the CEO and Co-Founder of World Wide Technology (WWT), a technology solutions provider with more than $11.3 billion in annual revenue and more than 6,000 employees globally. It serves the technology needs of large public and private...

Why Smaller Companies Fosters Fairer Workplaces

workplace – a critical element of trust. Among the largest differences favoring small and medium companies were for the Trust Index© Employee Survey statements: Promotions go to those who best deserve them (an average 87% of employees across Small &...

Why Shared Values Triumph Over Rules and Policies in the Workplace

trust-based work environment Actively evaluate and reinforce shared values in your organization The Great Place To Work® Trust Index Survey™ helps gauge and scrutinize the extent of employees' connection to company values, amongst other facets of...