Building Resilient and People Centric culture for Construction, Infrastructure and Real Estate Workplaces in India

Empower your workforce to develop culture built on trust, enhance pride in your brand and enable them to experience inclusive growth in a dynamic, future-ready industry.

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150+

organizations assessed in India

1.5L+

employees surveyed

30+

years of research

What Matters in Your Sector?

A practical view of what leaders need to win with workforce, contractors, and critical talent.

Attracting and Retaining the Best Talent

Creating Inclusive Culture for All Employees

Developing Managerial Capability

Benchmark your culture with the best workplaces from your industry

Enhancing Pride in Your Brand

Great Place To Work® provides deep insights, industry benchmarking, consultative support to enhance people practices,
build unique employee value proposition, partner with leaders as they navigate mindset shifts.

Industry-Related Insights

Trust and Pride Drive Retention on Site and in HQ

Construction and real estate organizations that invest in trust see stronger retention across project, sales, design and on-site teams - reducing dependency on constant hiring cycles.

Industry-Related Insights

The Real Gaps Are Systemic, Not Symbolic

The biggest gaps between Best Workplaces and typical workplaces sit in core systems - fair performance evaluation, action on feedback, career growth and leadership development - not surface-level engagement activities.

Certified Workplaces Outperform on Belonging

Great Place To Work® Certified™ construction and real estate organizations perform better than peers on trust, belonging, flexibility and psychological safety - including for women and next-generation talent.

Managerial Capability Is the Multiplier

Site managers, project leads and sales heads are the single biggest influence on employee experience. Building this manager layer accelerates the culture agenda across geographies.

Inclusion Across Corporate, Site and Contract Workforce

High-trust construction organizations treat corporate, on-site and contract employees as one workforce - closing gaps in safety, dignity, communication and career growth.

Pride in Brand Attracts Critical Talent

In a sector where reputation drives hiring, employer brand and cultural pride help attract the design, engineering and leadership talent that fuels large, complex projects.

How We Can Help?

Diagnose Culture

We help you capture candid employee feedback through our flagship Trust Index™ Survey - a tested, validated model across industries and geographies. We also diagnose through:

  • Focus Group Discussions
  • Readiness Pre-Survey
  • People Practice Evaluation
  • Manager Level Insights
  • On-site and Frontline Employee Assessment
  • Appreciative Inquiry (1 on 1) Meetings with Leaders

Build Culture

We support culture building by taking diagnosed feedback to action through structured presentations and programs such as:

  • Results & Insights presentation to HR, Leadership and Board
  • Data cuts & deep-dive on Emprising™ (demographic cuts, heatmaps, comment analysis, benchmarks)
  • People Philosophy (EVP) Intervention
  • People Practices Intervention
  • People Managers Intervention
  • Action Planning at an Org / Region / Project level

Support a High-Trust Culture

We help you ensure a continuous listening and learning mechanism through:

  • Quarterly / Monthly Pulse Surveys - Self or GPTW Administered
  • Governance Check-In Sessions
  • For All Leadership Summit, Construction & Real Estate CXO Roundtables
  • Trust Playbook - Best People Practice Report

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Identify and Interpret cultural strengths and gaps
  • Build action plans for improving inclusion, leadership effectiveness, and overall employee experience.
  • Strengthen people practices framework and talent management through culture transformation solutions.

To undertake the Great Place To Work Assessment and achieve Certification, an organization must have at least 10 employees in India. All employees who are active in the organization’s system must be included in the assessment.

The assessment measures employee experience through an anonymous Trust Index Survey conducted for employees.

To earn Certification, an organization must achieve 70% or more positive responses on the Trust Index Survey.

For organizations with an employee strength of up to 5,000, 100% of employees are invited to participate. When employee strength exceeds 5,000, a random sample of 5,000 employees is selected, with an option to increase survey coverage to 100%.

Yes. Great Place To Work follows the For All philosophy, which ensures that every employee—regardless of role or background—is included in the assessment.The survey can be administered through multiple modes such as email, kiosk, or SMS, and is available in major Indian and international languages to enable seamless participation. Please reach out to your Great Place To Work Advisor for additional guidance.

Once certified, organizations become eligible for national and global Best Workplaces Lists. To participate in these lists, organizations need to complete the Culture Audit, which is a qualitative evaluation of people practices, leadership values, and overall cultural philosophy.