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The Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards – South Africa, powered by WorkL

Entries for 2025 are now live.

Sunday Times South Africa Best Places to Work Awards recognises organisations who have consistently high levels of employee experience and wellbeing in South Africa. The survey completion for the 2025 awards is required by midnight on the 17th October. 

Awards for the best small, medium, big and very big organisations plus best workplaces for women, LGBTQ+ community,disabled employees, ethnic minorities, younger and older workers and for wellbeing.

Receive employee insights instantly via a dynamic dashboard including benchmark industry data, flight risk and net promoter score.

How to enter The Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards - South Africa, powered by WorkL

Enter The The Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards – South Africa, powered by WorkL 

Attract, recruit and retain employees.

Click Enter Now to sign up, then follow this simple four-step guide:

1. Select your organisation size

Select if you are a small, medium, big or very big organisation based on your number of employees.

2. Set up your Survey

Select when you’d like your survey to start end and how many employees you have.

3. Purchase your Awards package

Pay by card or generate an invoice to purchase your package and be able to send your survey out.

4. You're entered!

Once your survey results have been collected and the entry period closes, our panel of experts will evaluate your results and determine the final lists, based on organisation size.

The process will only take no more than 10 minutes and you will need your company card or relevant details to generate an invoice.

The Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards - South Africa, powered by WorkL FAQs

  • Get recognition by the Sunday Times and WorkL for the employee experience you provide
  • Retain employees
  • Attract new talent
  • Build your brand as a great place to work
  • Each organisation will receive access to their own dynamic dashboard with their engagement survey results
  • Organisations will receive an overall score, scores for the six engagement drivers, but also action plans and resources to drive change in your organisation

The 35 survey questions measure employee experience, covering WorkL’s six key drivers of engagement; Reward and Recognition, Information Sharing, Empowerment, Pride, Job Satisfaction and Wellbeing. If you need more information about the specific questions please contact us on stzabestplacestowork@workl.com

  • Surveys must be completed Friday 17th October 2025
  • Companies will be recognised for having the best overall engagement scores and also by company size. Other areas that the Sunday Times South Africa may choose to recognise are the best workplaces for Women, disabled employees, ethnic minority employees, LGBTQ+ employees, 16-34 year olds, 55+ year olds and for wellbeing. Please see FAQs for more information
  • Select your entry package based on how many employees you have: 
    • Small Organisations (10-49 Employees): ZAR 7,500
    • Medium Organisations (50-249 Employees): ZAR 25,000
    • Big Organisations (250-1,999 Employees): ZAR 55,000
    • Very Big Organisations (2,000+ Employees): ZAR 90,000

Get started today.