Best Company Studies

The Great Place to Work^® Institute Australia is dedicated to building a better society by helping organisations to transform their workplaces.

Our work is based on the major findings of more than 20 years of research - that trust between managers and employees is the primary defining characteristic of the best workplaces. We offer services and tools to help companies build trust and become more effective organisations.

Each year, we work with a respected Media Partner to conduct a detailed study of workplace culture across a wide range of Australian organisations. We share the detailed results of this study with all participating organisations, and we also identify and honour the  ‘Best Companies to Work For in Australia’ in order to recognise organisations in which employees are provided with a great work environment, and to encourage other organisations to become great workplaces.

Companies are selected as a Best Company primarily on the basis of their employees' responses to the Great Place to Work^® Trust Index^®, a proprietary employee survey developed by the Great Place to Work^® Institute.

Further information used for selection process is provided by completion of the Great Place to Work^® Culture Audit^©, a two part management questionnaire, also developed by the Great Place to Work^® Institute.

We take pride in maintaining the highest level of integrity in our evaluation process. Great Place to Work^® Institute and its media partners will only publicise information about companies that are identified as great workplaces and, in addition, only publicise positive aspects of each company.

Each year, the Great Place to Work(r) Institute produces Best Companies to Work For lists, representing workplaces in 40 countries around the world.

These annual surveys are widely considered to be the most important and comprehensive studies of workplace culture undertaken throughout the world.