To determine the 2021 Best Workplaces for Parents™ list, Great Place to Work® collected and analyzed confidential survey feedback representing more than 6 million U.S. employees.
Parents and non-parents responded to over 60 survey questions describing the extent to which their organization is a great place to work For All™. To be considered, companies had to be a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and have at least 50 responses from parents.
Eighty-five percent of the list evaluation was based on what parents say about their experiences of trust and reaching their full human potential at work, no matter who they are or what they do for the business. Our analysis focused on parents' feedback, analyzing how their workplace experiences compare to those of their non-parent colleagues and determining whether their job level, race/ethnicity or any other personal characteristic changed the level of support they received as a working parent.
The remaining fifteen percent was based on how parenting status influenced the degree to which employees from all backgrounds are equally involved in innovation opportunities, believe company values are lived and breathed, and believe management is effective.
Finally, we took into account each company’s parental leave, adoption, flexible schedule, childcare and dependent health care benefits.
To ensure survey results truly represent all employees, Great Place to Work required that Trust Index© survey results were accurate to a 95% confidence level with a 5% margin of error or better. We also reviewed any anomalies in survey responses, news and financial performance to ensure there aren’t any extraordinary reasons to believe we couldn’t trust a company’s survey results.
