Great Place To Work® has been surveying employees around the world about their workplaceexperiences for 30 years. We have developed a set of themes and metrics that not only reveal whetheremployees feel their workplace is great, but also predict retention, agility, and overall business success. Using our proprietary Trust Index™ survey, we measure the core of what we know creates greatworkplaces — key behaviors that drive trust in management, connection with colleagues, and loyalty tothe company.
The survey enables employees to share confidential quantitative and qualitative feedback about theirorganization’s culture by responding to 60 statements on a five-point scale and answering two open-ended questions.
Employees tell us whether leaders are accessible, communicate honestly and clearly, and if their actionsmatch their words. They tell us whether they feel respected as individuals, if they receive trainingbenefits, appreciation, support for their well-being and opportunities to contribute. They tell us whetherthey believe their company is fair related to pay, profits, promotions, recognition, favoritism andopportunities. They tell us if they are proud of their work, their team, and their company and if they feelthey make a difference, and their work is meaningful. And they tell us whether they enjoy the peoplethey work with, feel cared for and can be themselves.
List rankings are based on this employee feedback, which we analyze to determine the extent to whichthis experience is shared by the full workforce. To determine the Best Workplaces for Women, GreatPlace To Work measures self-identified women’s survey responses, compares them to those of theirpeers, and analyzes the extent to which women’s demographic backgrounds or position within theorganization change that experience. Statements are weighted according to their relevance in describingthe most important aspects of an equitable workplace for women.
The best companies create great work experiences for women not just for female full-time managers,but also for female part-time employees on the front lines, for those who’ve just joined and thosewho’ve spent their whole career there, for women of every race and ethnicity, neurotype, or otherdemographic in the organization – we look at it all. Companies with the broadest set of women whoreport positive workplace experience receive the highest rankings on the list
In order to analyze employee feedback in context, we collect information from each company includingtheir industry, revenue, size, and employee demographics. We identify the organizations that offer themost generous, caring and innovative cultures reflecting a genuine commitment to meet the diversity oftheir people’s needs inside and outside the workplace as validated by what employees themselvesreport in survey results. To determine the Best Workplaces for Women list, Great Place To Workanalyzes the gender balance of each workplace, how it compares Bureau of Labor Statistics industrydata, and how representation changes as women rise from front-line positions to the board of directors
Because employee feedback drives these rankings, surveys must meet strict requirements for how theyare distributed and the percentage of employees who respond to ensure they accurately representhonest feedback from the company’s full population. At a minimum, to be considered for the FortuneBest Workplaces for Women, companies must be Great Place to Work-Certified™ and must have at least50 female employees, at least 20 percent of non-executive management must be women, and at leastone C-Suite executive must be a woman. Companies with 50 to 999 people are considered for the smalland medium category; companies with 1,000 employees or more are considered for the large category
In the last year, Great Place To Work surveyed companies employing 8.2 million people in the U.S. andreceived 1.3 million survey responses. Of those, nearly 600,000 responses were received from femaleemployees at companies who were eligible for the 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women and thislist is based on their feedback.
