Recognition
Earn Best Workplaces Recognition and Become an Employer of Choice
Employees want to work for companies that value and celebrate their contributions. Our Best Workplaces™ awards deliver third-party validation that job seekers trust and create opportunities for current employees to celebrate your exceptional workplace culture.
How the Best Workplaces Lists Work
Best Workplace List winners see better business results across the board - it's a powerful way to
build trust, attract talent, and showcase your culture.
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Earn Certification
Earning Great Place To Work Certification™ is the first step to qualifying for a Best Workplaces award. Certification is based on the Trust Index™, our research-backed employee experience survey, giving job seekers and employees trusted proof of your outstanding workplace culture.
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Qualify for Lists
Certified companies are automatically considered for our Best Workplaces Lists, including the India's Best Companies To Work For®. For 30+ years, these prestigious awards have delivered recognition and publicity that help companies stand out and attract talent.
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Get Recognized & Enjoy the Benefits
Receiving a Best Workplaces award is a tremendous honor. It's also an achievement that yields real-world business impact, including increased attention from job seekers. Our research shows the Best Workplaces™ deliver 14X higher returns than major stock indices.
How Does Recognition Add Value to
Your Organization?
Strengthen Your Business
High-trust workplaces don't just benefit employees; they drive real business results. Companies recognized as Best Workplaces see stronger retention, greater innovation, and higher profits: stocks at the 100 Best Companies outperform the market by a factor of nearly four times. The work you put into earning (and re-earning) a Best Workplaces award is an investment in the long-term health of your company.
Attract Top Talent
The best workers have their choice of employers, and every company claims to care about the employee experience. Earning a spot on a trusted Best Workplaces List shows your commitment to creating a great company culture for all employees. It's third-party validation that sets you apart in a competitive job market and helps you attract and hire top talent.
Strong Competitive Advantage
When employees see their workplace recognized on a Best Workplaces List, it reinforces a sense of pride and belonging, and it highlights your efforts to foster a workplace where people feel valued. 85% of employees at Certified companies say they plan to stay with their companies for a long time - compared to just 67% at other companies.
Earn Publicity
A Best Workplaces award is more than a badge: it's proof that your company is doing a lot of things right. Earning a spot on a Best Workplaces List helps elevate your brand in national, local, and industry media. The PR opportunities created can provide a valuable boost for your reputation as an employer of choice.
Transform Your Workplace Culture
Earning a Best Workplaces award is more than recognition - it's a catalyst for positive change. Use employee feedback to strengthen your culture, build trust, and create a workplace where people thrive.
Survey
Powered by our proprietary Trust Index, easily survey your employees using the Great Place To Work Trust Index Survey to better understand your workplace culture.
Insights & Benchmarking
Using data-backed insights, you will be able to make more informed decisions and get a benchmarked view of your organization, creating a thriving culture.
Certification
Great Place To Work Certification evaluates workplace culture from the perspective that matters most - the employee - providing a clear signal to the world about your culture and commitment to employee experience.
Best Workplaces™ Lists
Once Great Place To Work Certified™, companies are automatically eligible for the Best Workplaces lists, earning recognition for the culture you built.
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"Over the last 15 years, we've used our experience with Great Place To Work® to gather insights and transform on how we communicate, recognize, and grow our people. From townhalls and digitized R&R to AI driven employee grievance chatbots and AI driven Learning Management System, everything we've built stems from the voice of our people. Being certified for 15 consecutive years and three straight years in the Top 25 BFSI in India - reflects not just consistency, but evolution. The Great Place To Work's TRUST Framework isn't just a model - it's a lived reality for our teams across the country."
- Chandralekha, CHRO at Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Limited
Frequently Asked Questions
Great Place To Work is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue and increased innovation. We help companies around the world survey their employees, benchmark their results, identify gaps and improve their workplace culture. Ours is the only national recognition program based on a rigorous methodology and validated employee feedback.
We use our For All Model and Methodology to evaluate our community of Great Place To Work-Certified companies. Top-performing companies are recognized as Best Workplaces.
First, rest assured that we keep results completely confidential. We never disclose the names of companies who participate in the process but do not get recognized – you have nothing to lose. While it’s disappointing not to make a list you’re interested in, going through the process is still extremely valuable. You gain the benefits of employee feedback and can use our helpful reports and analytics to gain actionable insights about your business. We have Culture Coaches available if you’d like a little expert support along the way. And when you’re ready, try again!
In broad terms, the Great Place To Work Trust Index Survey measures the level of trust in your organization and the consistency of the employee experience. More specifically, it measures individual employee experiences of five dimensions of a high-trust company culture through 60 statements and two open-ended questions. Three dimensions are connected to the actions of leaders and building trust – credibility, respect, and fairness. The other two measure the workplace experience of employees in relation to their colleagues and the wider organization – pride and a sense of belonging. Survey answers are assessed on a five-point scale, revealing the most common experience of employees in the organization.
Any organization that is Great Place To Work-Certified is automatically considered for our Best Workplaces Lists. We recognize organizations of all sizes, across all sectors and locations. Eligibility for specific lists (such as industry, size, or demographic-based lists) depends on the criteria for that list.