Description
Great Place to Work is the global authority on building, sustaining and recognizing high-trust, high-performing workplace cultures.
Great Place to Work has crafted its perspective by learning from great leaders, surveying millions of employees, and examining thousands of the best workplaces around the globe.W
Great Place to Work serves businesses, non-profits, and government agencies in more than 60 countries, across all six continents. It thrive on sharing the insights they have gleaned from its work with companies of all industries and sizes, in order to help organizations around the world, build, sustain and scale their great culture.
History
Great Place to Work® began with an unexpected discovery. In 1981 a New York editor asked two business journalists – Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz – to write a book called ‘The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America’. Though the pair were skeptical of finding 100 companies that would qualify, they agreed, starting a journey that would lead to more than 30 years of researching, recognizing, and building great workplaces.
What was the core insight uncovered by the pair’s extensive research? It was that the key to creating a great workplace was not a prescriptive set of employee benefits, programs, and practices, but the building of high-quality relationships in the workplace — relationships characterized by trust, pride, and camaraderie. These relationships weren’t a “soft” activity, but key drivers that help improve an organization’s business performance. The role of trust in the workplace became core not only for that first, pioneering 1984 book, but its 1988 sequel, A Great Place to Work: What makes some employers so good – and most so bad.
These insights led to the founding of Great Place to Work® Institute. Business leaders around the world adopted the Institute’s models and methodology as a valuable way to measure and create great workplaces. In 1997, FORTUNE (in the United States) partnered with the Institute’s research arm to produce the world’s first 100 Best Companies to Work For workplace rankings. Great Place to Work® gradually opened doors in more than 60 countries around the world with more growth slated in the coming years.
