Great Place to Work Institute

Great Place to Work® Institute has been listening to employees and evaluating employers since 1980 in order to understand what makes a workplace great.

In 1980, Robert Levering, co-founder of Great Place to Work® Institute and author of the original 100 Best Companies to Work For, set out to interview thousands of employees at companies who had reputations for being good employers. These interviews revealed that more than salary and benefits, what really set great workplaces apart was the quality of the interactions employees had with management, with each other, and with their jobs and communities. Levering defined a great workplace as one where employees trust the people they work for, have pride in what they do, and enjoy the people with whom they work.

From these employee interviews, the Great Place to Work® Model© was born and later, the Trust Index© survey was developed in partnership Amy Lyman, PhD, co-founder of the Institute. The Institute’s employee-centric model and survey is used around the world to identify Best Companies to Work For and to provide guidance to companies seeking to build better workplaces.

How We Select the Best Companies

Great Place to Work® Institute selects the Best Companies to Work For based on the results of the Trust Index(c) Employee Survey and the Culture Audit(c) Questionnaire. Hundreds of companies are rigorously evaluated each year in our search for the very best.

Significant Competetive Advantages

Being a great place to work creates significant competitive advantage for an organization.

• Perform better financially and be better prepared to weather economic downturns
• Receive more qualified job applications for open positions
• Experience less voluntary turnover
• Reduce the negative effects of stress on your employees
• Enjoy higher levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty
• Foster greater innovation, creativity and risk taking