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What’s standing between you and a world-class reputation?

  • The Trust Gap: Without an independent “seal of approval,” your culture claims often come across as corporate propaganda rather than authentic truth.
  • The Insight Gap: You’re operating in a vacuum. Without global benchmarking, you can’t prove how your employee experience actually stacks up against the world’s best.
  • Silent Exhaustion: A workforce that is “present but checked out” lacks the energy and innovation required to sustain a gold-standard reputation.
  • Candidate Skepticism: Top-tier talent no longer takes job ads at face value; they demand verified, third-party proof before they’ll even apply.
  • Vision Friction: High-speed growth and AI adoption are impossible to lead if your workforce is too fatigued or misaligned to follow the vision.
  • Market Noise: It’s harder than ever to stand out. Without a recognised credential, you remain just another name in a crowded, competitive market.

The Washington Post Best Places to Work Awards, powered by WorkL

Your team deserves the recognition they’ve earned. Enter the 2026 Best Place to Work awards today - open to US organisations with 10+ people. Deadline: 18th September 2026.

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The Benefits

  • Broader Recognition: Earn national exposure through The Washington Post’s Best Places to Work list.
  • Meaningful Insights: Access advanced analytics that measure engagement, retention, and employee sentiment.
  • Competitive Edge: Strengthen your employer brand to attract and retain top talent nationwide
  • Stronger Engagement: Increase employee retention and boost morale by acting on meaningful workplace insights.

Become a Best Place to Work

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.

If you’d like any support with entering, please contact us or book a meeting with one of our team.

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FAQs

  • Get recognition by The Washington Post 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 Awards Entry Engagement Survey contains 35 core questions that take each employee about 3-5 minutes to answer. 

Designed by WorkL’s team of behavioural scientists, psychologists, and academics the survey questions covers 6 key areas shown to effectively measure engagement and happiness at work : 

  • Reward and Recognition
  • Information Sharing
  • Empowerment
  • Wellbeing
  • Instilling Pride
  • Job Satisfaction 

If you need more information about the specific questions please contact us on wpbestplacestowork@workl.com 

  • Surveys must be completed 18th September 2026.
  • There are 4 main categories:
    • Best Places to Work: Small Organisation (10-49 Employees)
    • Best Places to Work: Medium Organisation (50-249 Employees)
    • Best Places to Work: Big Organisation (250-1,999 Employees)
    • Best Places to Work: Very Big Organisation (2,000+ Employees)
Additionally, The Washington Post may recognise the Best Places to work for women, younger workers and industries; this is to be confirmed for 2026.
  • Select your entry package based on how many employees you have:
    • Small organizations (10-49 Employees): $3,750
    • Medium organizations (50-249 Employees): $6,500
    • Big organizations (250-1,999 Employees): $9,750
    • Very Big organizations (2,000+ Employees): $14,500
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