Best Workplaces™ in
New Zealand List

Great Place To Work® Certified™ companies are automatically eligible for any relevant Best Workplace lists.

Start your journey to Great Place To Work Certification™ today, for your chance to appear on the next list!

How Do You Get Certified?

STEP 1

Survey Your Employees

Select a 2-week period to launch the Trust Index™, our research-backed employee experience survey.

STEP 2

Complete the Culture Brief™

Fill out a short questionnaire about your company’s history and demographics

STEP 3

Celebrate your Certification

Meet our 65% Trust Index™ survey benchmark and you’re Certified! You'll have access to a suite of employer branding tools and promotional assets.

What makes a great workplace?

A great workplace is one where employees trust the people they work for, have pride in the work they do, and enjoy the people they work with. To be truly great, that experience must be consistent for every employee, no matter who they are, what they do, or where they work. This consistent experience is what we call “For All™.”

The Most Respected Recognition Program

Great Place To Work® is a national recognition program based on a rigorous methodology and validated employee feedback.

Our approach to recognising the Best Workplaces™ is based on 30 years of data science and 100 million employee surveys.

Think You’ve Got What it Takes to Make the Best Workplaces in New Zealand™ List?

Appear on the list along with the market leaders in workplace culture.

Best Workplaces in New Zealand™ list FAQs

Great Place To Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue and increased innovation. We help companies around the world survey their employees, benchmark their results, identify gaps and improve their workplace culture. Ours is the only national recognition program based on a rigorous methodology and validated employee feedback.

In general, companies in New Zealand that:

  • Have at least 10 full- and/or part-time employees
  • Are Great Place To Work Certified™ 
  • To become Certified, companies must survey their employees using our flagship assessment, the Trust Index™, and complete a Culture Brief™. 

The process is very easy and straight-forward. To Get Certified, businesses will run our Trust Index™ Survey with their employees and will complete a short 30-minute questionnaire, in order to Get Certified. 

We use our Great Place To Work Model and Methodology to evaluate our pool of Great Place To Work-Certified™ companies. Top performing companies are recognised as Best Workplaces™. To become Certified, companies must survey their employees using our flagship assessment, the Trust Index™, and complete a Culture Brief™.

First, rest assured, we keep results completely confidential. We never disclose the names of companies who participate in the process but do not get recognised. You have nothing to lose.

You gain the benefits of employee feedback and can use our helpful reports and analytics to gain actionable insights about your business. You also get to Celebrate being Certified!

How to Apply for the List

Step 1. Tell us about your company

One of our team will review your details and be in contact shortly.