Best Workplaces for Wellbeing in the UK

Looking for the best workplaces for wellbeing in the UK? Great Place To Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, with a mission to help every place become a great working environment. It gives leaders and organisations the recognition and tools to create a consistently and overwhelmingly positive employee experience, helping them to foster cultures that are proven to drive business, improve lives, and better society.

By working with Great Place To Work, businesses not only have the opportunity to be accredited and placed on one of our sector lists, but also gain real insight into their businesses in order to improve and grow their internal culture.

The list results are based on what employees have anonymously reported via the Trust Index™ Survey about their workplace experience. The size categories within the list are based on number of employees:

• Companies with 20–50 employees are eligible for the Small category
• Companies with 51–250 employees, the Medium size category
• Companies with 251–1000 employees, the Large size category
• Companies with 1001+ employees were considered for the Super Large size category.

This is the largest list we’ve ever recognised in the wellbeing space.

To determine the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing™, Great Place To Work analysed confidential survey feedback representing more than 140,000 UK employees. The Best Workplaces for Wellbeing list focuses on employees’ holistic experiences of wellbeing at work, including their work-life balance, sense of fulfilment, social support, job satisfaction, and financial security, to reveal the best workplaces for wellbeing in the UK.

Particular attention was paid to how these employee experiences varied depending on job role, gender, age, and other characteristics, to ensure that companies are creating a great workplace for all.

To be considered eligible for wellbeing recognition, companies first had to meet the Great Place To Work-Certified™ standard of accreditation, achieving a minimum of 65 per cent scoring on specific questions shown to have the most impact on wellbeing in the Great Place To Work Trust Index employee survey.

Once certified, each company undergoes a rigorous assessment of their culture, during which we review any anomalies in survey responses, news, and financial performance of the business, to ensure there aren’t any extraordinary reasons to believe we couldn’t trust a company’s survey results.

We’ve been listening to employee voices for over 40 years, and it’s helped us to determine what makes a truly great working environment.

What matters to employees

We wanted to find out what’s really important to employees when searching for the best workplaces for wellbeing in the UK. In our Trust Index Survey, we asked how employers could best support their employees’ personal wellbeing. Common themes were:

1. People Management

By far the most talked about theme was people management, which encompasses the way people would like to be managed, and the interactions they have with their manager.

2. Work-Life Balance and Hybrid Working

This theme featured strongly again this year, with the majority of respondents looking for remote and hybrid working models to support a healthy work-life balance.

3. Financial Support and Security

It’s no surprise as we live through the cost-of-living crisis that financial wellbeing is a concern (which can be improved via job security, pay rises and other benefits to promote financial wellbeing).

Great Place To Work asked employees:

‘What is the best way for your organisation to support your personal wellbeing?’

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1. People Management:

‘Supportive managers really make a difference when team members are going through a hard time in their personal life, as personal situations happen in life that can put you on a high or a low. With the right understanding and support through the hard times, managers truly make a difference in bringing you back up and allowing you to breathe. As an employee, you thrive to do your best when you feel valued and supported.’

2. Work-Life Balance and Hybrid Working:

‘By understanding that everyone has their own issues, be it health or issues at home, and by supporting flexible working, you enable that employee to feel that they are able to complete their work effectively and have time and headspace to deal with personal issues. When people feel they are being productive and valued at work, they are better able to deal with life outside of it.’

3. Financial Support and Security:

‘Showing understanding of the current cost-of-living crisis, especially the rising cost of fuel, and how this affects colleagues, really benefits employees’ sense of wellbeing.’

What do the employers say?

Great Place To Work also asks companies to share – from the management perspective – how they believe they are creating a best workplace. Here are some examples of best practice:

1. People Management:

To complement more formal annual reviews, managers hold one-to-one ‘walks in the woods’ with team members every month, to give employees an opportunity to have regular conversations, and break away from their usual working environment. These more casual one-to-ones on the move often encourage employees to speak more freely, whether in person with managers or separately on a phone call in a change of scenery.

2. Work-Life Balance and Hybrid Working:

My Flexible Environment™ allows employees to take a more flexible approach when considering where and when they work based on a few core principles: (i) Focus on results and not hours; (ii) Employees determine how they can achieve the best results; (iii) Employees have flexible schedules and locations; (iv) Employees understand that flexibility includes making themselves available for client and company needs.

3. Financial Support and Security:

With increasing living costs front and centre of minds, all employees were offered paid financial coaches to provide independent financial planning advice, from simple budgeting through to debt management plans and arranging mortgages.

As well as the free text comments supplied through the survey, the respondents are also asked to rank their employer on a series of statements. It may be interesting to look at how highly the businesses that made it into the top five of the list compare against those that don’t in relation to the following statements, again linking into that number-one theme of People Management:

‘Management shows a sincere interest in me as a person, not just an employee.’

2023 – Top 5 – 94.0%
2023 – Not Top 5 – 81.2%

‘I can ask management any reasonable question and get a straight answer.’

2023 – Top 5 – 93.7%
2023 – Not Top 5 – 81.8%

‘This is a psychologically and emotionally healthy place to work.’

2023 – Top 5 – 93.7%
2023 – Not Top 5 – 77.5%

Best workplaces for wellbeing in the UK: winners

• Super Large: Cisco
• Large: xDesign
• Medium: Elements Talent Consultancy
• Small: edison365

Best workplaces for wellbeing UK: Super Large (1001+ employees)

1. Cisco
2. Baringa
3. Salesforce
4. Version 1
5. Softcat plc
6. Hilton
7. First Central Group
8. DHL Express
9. BUUK Infrastructure
10. Home Group Ltd.
11. AbbVie
12. The Prince’s Trust
13. Vodafone UK
14. Admiral Group
15. Verisk
16. Insight Direct (UK) Ltd.
17. KBR
18. Experian Ltd.
19. Capgemini UK plc
20. Utilita
21. Deloitte LLP
22. Gleeds UK
23. Flight Centre Travel Group
24. Childbase Partnership
25. TeamSport Indoor Karting
26. Sopra Steria Ltd.
27. Coventry Building Society
28. Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) Ltd.
29. Hyperoptic
30. Bright Horizons Family Solutions
31. Santander UK
32. Irwin Mitchell
33. Computacenter
34. Gowling WLG (UK) LLP
35. Accenture
36. TrustFord
37. Abbott Laboratories Ltd.
38. McCarthy & Stone
39. Shared Services Connected Ltd.
40. Dimensions
41. Places for People
42. IRIS Software Group
43. L&Q
44. HomeServe Membership Ltd.
45. Bromford
46. Northumbrian Water Group

Best workplaces for wellbeing UK: Large (251–1000+ employees)

1. xDesign
2. Xero
3. Credera UK
4. Slalom
5. The Trade Desk
6. Nvidia
7. CrowdStrike
8. Biogen Idec Ltd.
9. Smart Pension
10. Thoughtworks
11. Intuit QuickBooks
12. Student Beans
13. Ansys
14. Phoenix Software
15. Discover Financial Services
16. Red Hat UK Ltd.
17. Oxford PharmaGenesis
18. Ares Management
19. Lindt & Sprüngli UK Ltd.
20. Liberty IT
21. Robert Half
22. Mimecast
23. Confused.com
24. W.L. Gore & Associates (UK) Ltd.
25. Secure Trust Bank Group
26. Ombudsman Services
27. Natilik
28. REL Field Marketing
29. Microlise Ltd.
30. Stryker
31. General Mills
32. Citadel Enterprise
33. Rygor Commercials
34. Egress
35. Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
36. De Lage Landen Leasing Ltd.
37. The All England Lawn Tennis Club
38. UST
39. Farnborough Airport Group
40. PKF Francis Clark
41. Fittleworth Medical Ltd.
42. Appreciate Group plc
43. Chiesi
44. RiverStone International
45. Ipsen Bath Road
46. Bytes Software Services
47. TIP Group
48. Kin + Carta
49. Mobilize Financial Services
50. Broadridge Financial Services
51. Moneypenny
52. TransUnion
53. Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd.
54. Ethos Farm
55. L’Occitane en Provence
56. Active Prospects
57. Borders College
58. Elavon
59. Checkatrade
60. Learning Pool
61. BHP LLP
62. Laithwaites
63. ClearCourse Partnership
64. BPHA
65. The Oldham College
66. Bacardi
67. Camlin Group
68. Ipsen Wrexham
69. Geodis FF UK
70. Charlie Bigham’s
71. HML
72. Assurant
73. Brayleys Cars Ltd.
74. Norton Way Motors Ltd
75. ProCook Ltd.
76. Webbs Garden Centre Ltd.
77. SC Johnson
78. AlphaSights
79. Alliance Homes

Best workplaces for wellbeing UK: Medium (51 – 250 employees)

1. Elements Talent Consultancy
2. Evolved Search
3. Braze
4. Silver Cloud HR
5. Impression
6. Banked
7. Synthesia
8. Person Centred Software
9. Tomorrow
10. Practicus Ltd.
11. Alnylam UK Ltd.
12. Intersoft
13. Scandit
14. Sellick Partnership
15. Mercator Digital
16. World Wide Technology
17. Zifo Technology
18. Index
19. Coeo
20. Xpedition
21. Uptake Strategies
22. Wise
23. PEN Partnership
24. Ryan
25. Nomios UK&I
26. Tanium
27. Goodman Masson
28. Xledger
29. Redkite
30. KnowBe4
31. Collaborative Solutions
32. Technology Management (Midlands) Ltd.
33. National Grid Metering
34. Astound Commerce
35. Airwalk Reply
36. Strata
37. Simpson Associates
38. Touch Medical Media
39. Catalyst Care Group
40. Blue Light Card
41. Cameron Homes
42. Grace’s Day Nursery
43. Edrington UK Distribution
44. 360 Insights
45. Alternative Airlines
46. SLC Rail
47. Bazaarvoice
48. Synthace
49. Aventum Group
50. Medneo Diagnostics
51. Figma
52. Yext
53. Rimini Street
54. Instil
55. Wollens
56. AXON
57. Project One
58. SII Services Limited
59. Moose Toys
60. Administrate
61. HomeServe Ltd
62. Acquia
63. Santen UK
64. Western Global
65. Jumar
66. Garrison Technology Ltd.
67. Elucidat
68. Tractable Ltd.
69. Beckett Investment Management Group Ltd.
70. Hive & Pollen Health
71. Brown-Forman UK
72. Infinity Group
73. Sysmex UK Ltd
74. Channel 3 Consulting
75. Wavestone
76. Yapily
77. Methods Analytics
78. Insulet International
79. WP Engine
80. Consilient Health
81. Cadence
82. Al-Dabbagh Group
83. Cvent Europe
84. Trek Bicycle Corporation
85. CloudCall
86. Mason Advisory
87. ITC Secure
88. Wazoku
89. Retail Insight
90. Workplace Interiors Company Cheltenham
91. Muse Developments
92. Lansons
93. Bruichladdich Distillery
94. Gorilla Glue Europe Ltd.
95. Powerforce Field Marketing and Retail Services Ltd.
96. Sharing in Growth
97. Treasury Wine Estates
98. Logicalis UK&I
99. The Point Company
100. Branding Science UK Ltd.

Best workplaces for wellbeing UK: Small (20 – 50 employees)

1. edison365
2. Word Monster
3. ResourceiT
4. ID Comms
5. Monday.com
6. Kingston Barnes
7. Signify Technology
8. Thryve Talent
9. Forward Role
10. Macrium Software
11. Aspire Scientific
12. Law 365
13. Propellernet
14. The Marketing Pod
15. UP3 Services Ltd.
16. Domo Group
17. Lupin Healthcare UK Ltd.
18. Blacklist Creative
19. esynergy
20. Ntegra
21. Walr
22. Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries
23. 15 Marketing
24. Cartwright Communications
25. Keon Homes
26. Stiebel Eltron UK Ltd.
27. Avignon Capital
28. Deltra Group
29. Volvo Penta UK
30. Healthier Business Group
31. Peru Consulting
32. Evo
33. LACE Partners
34. Cowry Consulting
35. The Recruitment Crowd (TRC Group)
36. Distinctly
37. Uponor
38. Mantle
39. Climate X
40. Enovation Controls Ltd
41. 383 Project
42. Beyond Analysis
43. JGA Recruitment Group
44. Green Gourmet Ltd.
45. Cyara
46. Emerchantpay
47. Basis Technologies
48. Citipost Mail
49. Achievers
50. Schlesinger Group UK
51. Serve and Protect Credit Union
52. IEMA
53. Sullivan & Stanley
54. PhoreMost
55. Something Big
56. Red Ant Digital Ltd.
57. Wondr Medical
58. Active International
59. Ecology Resources
60. Consilium Recruit
61. Richard Nelson LLP
62. Centor Insurance & Risk Management
63. Consultant Connect
64. Infigo Software Ltd.
65. Open Systems
66. ProMedical
67. Firstlight Group
68. Zoocha
69. Glassmoon Services
70. Katté & Co
71. Mayer Environmental
72. Culture Shift
73. Wild Nutrition Ltd.
74. ATA Garryson Ltd.
75. Maped Helix
76. Aer Studios
77. Calabrio
78. ICRTouch
79. Computer Task Group UK
80. Business Continuity Institute (BCI)
81. ELSE
82. Ethical Trading Initiative
83. ZIM Integrated
84. EnableX Ltd.
85. Pearn Kandola
86. In Digital
87. saintnicks
88. Global Lingo
89. Ebix Europe Ltd.
90. Lupa Foods
91. Multivitamin Group
92. International Chamber of Shipping Ltd.
93. VTG Rail UK
94. GlobalStep
95. Silence Therapeutics
96. PAG
97. UK Connect
98. TruTac Ltd.
99. Florence Nightingale Foundation
100. Odigo

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