Every year, more than 10,000 organizations from over 60 countries partner Great Place to Work® Institute for assessment, benchmarking and planning actions to strengthen their workplace culture. Great Place to Work® Institute’s methodology is recognized as rigorous and objective and is considered as the gold standard for defining great workplaces across business, academia and government organizations.

All organizations that nominate themselves for India’s Best Companies to Work For list undergo an assessment. As part of this assessment, all organizations are studied through two lenses. The first lens measures the quality of employee experience through our globally validated survey instrument known as Trust Index©. The survey helps in seeking anonymous feedback from employees and carries 2/3rd weightage. The second lens is called Culture Audit© is a proprietary tool of the Institute that evaluates the quality of people practices of an organization, covering the entire employee life-cycle. This carries 1/3rd weightage. The institute also considers whether an organization that has met the criteria defined by the institute on employee experience and people practices is also a ‘Great Place to Work for ALL’ i.e all employees in the organization irrespective of their tenure, age, gender, role etc. are experiencing a great workplace culture. In this criteria, any demographic group that forms 10% or more of the company’s employee strength, should not have a significantly different experience (Trust Index© score) from the average score of the entire organization. More than 1000 organizations applied to the assessment in the study and 869 organizations made the final base that was evaluated to identify the 100 Best.

The Institute undertakes a robust validation process on the data gathered through the assessment process. The cumulative score of Trust Index© and Culture Audit© determines an organization’s position in the ranking scoreboard and helps in identifying ‘India’s 100 Best Companies to Work For’. No individual or jury has a say in who makes it to the Top 100 list – only employee feedback and quality of people practice determine if an organization is a great workplace.

Disclosure:

There is no fee charged for participation in ‘India’s Best Companies to Work For’ Study. All participant organizations have the option of subscribing to various data insights and reporting options at their own discretion/ need.

Great Place to Work® Institute, India also has a Consulting Practice. The total consulting revenue of Great Place to Work® Institute, India from the 100 Best Companies to Work For 2020 in the financial year 2019-20 is less than 10% percent of the total revenue of the Institute in India. Great Place to Work® Institute, India has a stated policy of not soliciting business from the India’s Best Companies to Work For.

Note: All the assessments for identifying the 100 Best Companies to Work for 2020 were conducted before 15th February 2020, prior to any impact of COVID-19 across the country.