Since the late 1980’s, Great Place to Work has identified the best places to work.
The firm’s mission is to improve society by helping companies transform workplace environments, as well as provide benchmarks, frameworks, and expertise for creating and maintaining exceptional cultures.
In a unique twist, winners are chosen exclusively based on employee input.
The Best Workplaces in Canada, an annual list from Great Place to Work, was released this month.
The list breaks down Canada’s top workplaces by company size, ranking those with fewer than 100 employees distinctly from those with up to 999 employees and from enterprises with more than 1,000 workers.
Among the <100 employee firms are Ottawa’s PureLogic IT Solutions, Concord’s Blazesoft, and Vancouver’s ImageX.
In the mid-size category are international tech titans like NVIDIA and Adobe alongside Canadian entities such as Edmonton’s Jobber and Toronto’s Achievers.
The enterprise category features mostly U.S. firms, such as SAP, Salesforce, and Accenture, with non-tech Canadian entities such as RBC and Scotiabank making the list.
Organizations were selected based on Great Place to Work’s Trust Index Survey, which measures the employee experience at each company.
Each year, 20 million employees are asked how frequently they experience behaviours that create a great workplace, including, transparency, collaboration, benefits, professional development, and work-life balance. This data is then put through Great Places’ proprietary algorithm.
Companies with a strong culture of trust consistently outperform competitors in financial growth and market resilience, according to research by Great Place to Work, experiencing lower voluntary turnover rates and higher workforce stability.
Financial performance of companies ranked by Great Places have also out-performed broader markets since the 90’s, data shows.
