Nominate Your Workplace
Nominate Your Workplace

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There’s no cost to nominate, participate, or win awards. One survey, dozens of award opportunities. Start by nominating your company now:

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Why Is Top Workplaces Based on an Employee Survey? Credibility.

The only judges that matter are already on your payroll. Prove your workplace is truly great with the only methodology that counts: anonymous, validated employee feedback. Stop guessing how they feel. Just ask.

Participation is confidential and it’s free to win awards. Start by nominating your workplace now.

A Simple Process. Powerful Results.

  1. Deploy the Survey: We provide a research-backed, short, anonymous employee engagement survey. It takes minutes for your team to complete.
  2. Analyze the Data: We crunch the numbers against regional, industry, culture, and national benchmarks. You get immediate access to high-level results.
  3. Earn the Award: If your survey score meets the benchmark, you are named a Top Workplace for any award (national, regional, industry, culture) you qualify for and published by the award media partner (e.g. Chicago Tribune, LA Times, USA TODAY, and 60 others) and on the Top Workplaces website. No judges, no fees to win, just data.
  4. Leverage the Win: Optionally, purchase your badge licenses, media assets, and deeper data insights to fuel your employer branding and HR strategy.

What If We Don't Win the Award?

Then you win something even more valuable: The truth.

Not every company meets the benchmark on their first try, and that’s okay. Results are confidential and you still receive the high-level survey data. You’ll know exactly where your culture stands and where you need to improve. The survey provides the roadmap so you can improve your culture and win next year.

Zero risk. Total confidentiality. Only winners are announced. If you don’t make the list, your participation remains private.

It’s a win-win: You either get the badge, or you get the blueprint to earn it, including optional consulting and talent management tools.

Top Workplaces Awards Are Your Best Brand and Recruiting Asset

Job seekers and customers are more selective than ever. For 20 years, Top Workplaces awards, backed by employee feedback, provide proven employer brand credibility. Don’t just tell your employer brand story — show customers and job seekers that your company is one of the few elite Top Workplaces. 

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Awards That Attract Top Talent, Win Loyal Customers, and Fuel Growth

One survey unlocks 80+ regional, national, industry, and culture excellence awards.

Top Workplaces awards are published by more than 60 of the nation’s leading media outlets, including:

Learn the Benefits of Participating in Top Workplaces

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Participate in Top Workplaces and you can achieve the same success.

“Job seekers today are more informed than ever, thoroughly researching potential employers. We’ve recognized that receiving Top Workplaces awards has enhanced our ability to attract strong talent. These awards provide candidates with the credibility and confidence they seek, as they recognize the standards Top Workplaces represent."
Andrea Trofiumuk
Andrea TrofiumukCEO at Sinclair North America
“Top Workplaces awards have been extremely impactful for getting the opportunity to hire quality candidates. Having Top Workplaces awards is important to hear about because they speak volumes to not only the work that we do but also our care for our employees.”
Feliece Murrell
Feliece MurrellCorporate People and Culture Officer, Endeavors
"Top Workplaces helps us continue to recruit amazing talent. It's a differentiator that sets us apart from our competition. It's a critical component of our promotional strategy!"
Tom Goris
Tom GorisManaging Partner, Northwestern Mutual Greater Chicago
“Being recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in the country is an honor, but what makes it even more exciting is that this award is based on our team members’ genuine feedback about our culture. We have always had a people first mentality in everything that we do, because our people are the key to our success.”
Morgan Permuy
Morgan PermuyVP of Engagement, Power Design
"Being recognized as a Top Workplace is a major accomplishment. It is critical to our talent acquisition marketing and process. Our employees feel a great sense of pride knowing they work for a top employer in the DC area, which helps with retention."
Paula Staudt
Paula StaudtDirector of HR, Tantus Technologies
"Top Workplaces is a badge of honor we advertise to all recruits, vendors, customers, etc. It is a differentiator amongst our competitors."
Hugh Henderson
Hugh HendersonCEO and Owner, Capstone Hospice
"There is a direct correlation between our Top Workplaces awards and employee recruitment and retention. People started reaching out when they heard we are a Top Workplace. Top Workplaces brings validation that our mission to put employees first and build a positive company culture is working."
Julie Fry
Julie FryChief HR Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage
"Top Workplaces gives our employees pride in where they work and ownership in the direction of our culture. It is a differentiator in the market to attract and retain employees and unifies our team with a sense of accomplishment. We love the bragging rights it offers as well!"
Julie Harrison
Julie HarrisonVP of HR, PCS Software
“Job seekers today are more informed than ever, thoroughly researching potential employers. We’ve recognized that receiving Top Workplaces awards has enhanced our ability to attract strong talent. These awards provide candidates with the credibility and confidence they seek, as they recognize the standards Top Workplaces represent."
Andrea Trofiumuk
Andrea TrofiumukCEO at Sinclair North America
“Top Workplaces awards have been extremely impactful for getting the opportunity to hire quality candidates. Having Top Workplaces awards is important to hear about because they speak volumes to not only the work that we do but also our care for our employees.”
Feliece Murrell
Feliece MurrellCorporate People and Culture Officer, Endeavors
"Top Workplaces helps us continue to recruit amazing talent. It's a differentiator that sets us apart from our competition. It's a critical component of our promotional strategy!"
Tom Goris
Tom GorisManaging Partner, Northwestern Mutual Greater Chicago
“Being recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in the country is an honor, but what makes it even more exciting is that this award is based on our team members’ genuine feedback about our culture. We have always had a people first mentality in everything that we do, because our people are the key to our success.”
Morgan Permuy
Morgan PermuyVP of Engagement, Power Design
"Being recognized as a Top Workplace is a major accomplishment. It is critical to our talent acquisition marketing and process. Our employees feel a great sense of pride knowing they work for a top employer in the DC area, which helps with retention."
Paula Staudt
Paula StaudtDirector of HR, Tantus Technologies
"Top Workplaces is a badge of honor we advertise to all recruits, vendors, customers, etc. It is a differentiator amongst our competitors."
Hugh Henderson
Hugh HendersonCEO and Owner, Capstone Hospice
"There is a direct correlation between our Top Workplaces awards and employee recruitment and retention. People started reaching out when they heard we are a Top Workplace. Top Workplaces brings validation that our mission to put employees first and build a positive company culture is working."
Julie Fry
Julie FryChief HR Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage
"Top Workplaces gives our employees pride in where they work and ownership in the direction of our culture. It is a differentiator in the market to attract and retain employees and unifies our team with a sense of accomplishment. We love the bragging rights it offers as well!"
Julie Harrison
Julie HarrisonVP of HR, PCS Software

Build a reputation that brings customers and top talent to you.

Take the next step in gaining credible employer recognition — nominate your organization for Top Workplaces today.

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