FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - FAQs

The first step is to complete the online company profile and application. Once completed in its entirety, your application will be submitted for review to a member of the Most Loved Workplace team to verify. 

You will receive a URL in your account dashboard for your Love of Workplace Index™ Pulse Validation survey to distribute to your employees. 

A minimum of 33% or 1,000 employees must complete the Pulse Validation to be eligible for certification. 

The survey will stay open for ten days. Completion by the end of the calendar month is mandatory to reserve your certification spot. 

Upon completion, the Most Loved Workplace® team will review the complete certification application. You will receive a decision within two weeks from the final submission. 

To maintain the integrity of the research and be the most inclusive, we opened the process to everyone for free. 

No. We provide opportunities for branding, marketing, data, and reports once you have been certified if you wish to take advantage of them.  You are not obligated to purchase anything to become certified and considered for the Newsweek list.

Each month through June 2022, Most Loved Workplace®  releases a limited cohort of up to 100 certified companies. By limiting the number of companies each month, organizations can have the space and benefits to take full advantage of the opportunity to promote and brand themselves as a Most Loved Workplace®. 

Yes.

To ensure the integrity and quality of the data and legitimacy of each month's cohort, we require you to complete the process in one calendar month. Most people finish the process of registration, written application, interview, and survey collection within one to two weeks.

Newsweek's ranking of the Most Loved Workplaces® in 2021 pays tribute to companies that put respect, caring, and appreciation for their employees at the center of their business model and, in doing so, have earned the loyalty and respect of the people who work for them.

The list was created with the Best Practice Institute (BPI), a leadership development center, and think tank. BPI has conducted extensive research to identify the specific management practices that lead to employee motivation and satisfaction and to document the strong link between worker satisfaction and productivity and performance. Based on that research, BPI measured five basic areas, via surveys, to determine how employees feel about where they work to create the 2021 Most Loved Workplaces® list: the level of collaboration at the firm; how positive workers are about their future at the company; how much employer values align with employee values; respect at all levels; and career achievement.

In 2021, BPI surveyed more than 800,000 employees at companies ranging from less than 50 employees to more than 10,000; additionally, BPI interviewed several hundred company officials. 

Certified companies are evaluated and scored as follows:
- Thirty-five percent of the initial score is based on employee survey responses.
- Twenty-five percent derives from analyzing external public ratings from Comparably, Careerbliss, Glassdoor, Indeed, Google, and more.
- Forty percent came from direct interviews with and written responses from company officials.
Newsweek then conducts additional research into every company on the list and the top runners up to determine the final list of 100 companies and their ranking. (The list includes both U.S. firms and companies with a strong U.S. presence based overseas.)

The rankings combine quantitative and qualitative analysis that BPI developed and featured in the book In Great Company (McGraw-Hill, 2019) by BPI and Most Loved Workplace founder Louis Carter.

Best Practice Institute, Inc. owns the registered trademark and copyright to the Most Loved Workplaces® brand and the Love of Workplace Index™. Most Loved Workplace® is a registered trademark filed and patented by the U.S. Trademarks and Patents Office by Best Practice Institute, Inc.