The winners of the Canada GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards 2021 have been revealed.
The event is all about making the games industry a better place to work, and the awards themselves are decided by an in-depth survey of employees.
Revealed during a special 35-minute online ceremony, there were 17 Canada Best Places winners, and a series of special winners.
Square Enix and Eidos picked up three wins in total. Meanwhile, Vancouver’s Heidi Eaves, the COO of Relic Entertainment, was named Canada’s Best Boss after a huge number of nominations from the Age of Empires studio.
The highest scoring small companies (10 – 50 staff) are: Affordance Studio, Certain Affinity, Eidos Sherbrooke, Evolve PR, ManaVoid, Trebuchet Studio and Triple Boris.
The top sized companies (50 – 200 employees) are: Compulsion Games, EA Full Circle, Frima, Hyper Hippo, Phoenix Labs, Snowed In Studios and Square Enix Montreal.
And the best large companies (200+) are: Behaviour Interactive, Eidos Montreal and Relic Entertainment.
Alongside the badge winners, we also revealed a number of special awards. The winners of these categories were:
- The Health & Wellbeing Award: Hyper Hippo
- The Corporate Social Responsibility Award: Square Enix/Eidos
- The Environmental Award: Gameloft Montreal
- The Education Award: Behaviour Interactive
- Best Boss Award: Heidi Eaves, Relic Entertainment