Great Place To Work® Certification
The Trusted Benchmark for Workplace Excellence
Talent war is increasing, and so is the demand for a great workplace culture. Great Place To Work® Certification™ is proof that your culture stands out and your employees are the voice behind it. Become the employer of choice – attract talent, boost engagement, and drive growth.
How to earn Great Place To Work Certification?
Great Place To Work is a global authority on workplace culture. We acknowledge organizations that excel in providing a positive work environment for their employees. You have to follow two simple steps that include surveying your employees and completing a short questionnaire about your workforce. Once we have your employee responses, our experts analyze the data, and if your organization meets the set threshold, then you earn the Great Place To Work Certification
Survey Your Employees
Select a two-week period to launch Trust Index™ – our research-backed employee survey that captures the real voice of your employees.
Complete the Culture Brief
Fill out a simple questionnaire to share insights about your company culture and workforce.
Celebrate Your Certification
Once you meet the eligibility criteria, congratulations! You’ll become a Great Place To Work® Certified organization – ready to showcase your royalty-free certification badge to the world. With this, you also become eligible to be recognized as India’s Best Companies To Work For.
Testimonials
Benefits of Certification
- Accelerate Business Growth
Culture isn’t just about people – it’s a business advantage.
India’s Best Workplaces have delivered 14X returns since 2008–09, outperforming major stock indices by more than 3X.
Great workplaces prove that when employees thrive, businesses scale faster, stay resilient, and create lasting value for shareholders.
- Attract & Retain Top Talent
In today’s war for talent, a strong culture is your edge.
At Certified workplaces, employees are almost 50% less likely to consider leaving and are more likely to recommend their company to friends and family.
Certification gives you a powerful employer brand that helps fill your talent pipeline with people who don’t just join – they stay, grow, and go the extra mile.
- Build Trust & Well-Being at Work
Trust is the foundation of high-performing workplaces.
Employees in Certified organizations report 20% higher confidence in executive leadership and 28% lower levels of burnout.
Certification helps you create a workplace where people feel safe, supported, and energized to give their best every day.
- Spark Innovation with Clear Insights
The ability to adapt and innovate quickly sets thriving businesses apart.
But innovation isn’t just about speed – it’s about direction. Great Place To Work Certification equips you with clear, actionable data to benchmark your culture against the best.
This means your people generate stronger ideas, your teams execute them faster, and your organization becomes more resilient to whatever tomorrow brings.
Want to Know How Certification Works?
See a step-by-step walk-through of the Certification process.
Learn More About Partnering With Us
Ready to hear what your employees think?
Tell us a little about your company, and someone from our team will get in touch with you.
We take a lot of pride in partnering with Great Place To Work. The company loves it. It’s our way to continue improving and thriving together as a business.
Annette Alexander,
chief people officer at WP Engine
Certification is the start of something greater
Once certified, you open doors to a lot of opportunities.
Early Access to the For All Summit
Eligibility for Best Workplace Recognition
Celebrate Certification Nation Day
Become a Webinar Speaker
Brand Amplification Opportunities
Conduct Study Missions with Us
Join the League of Great Place To Work Certified Companies
Frequently Asked Questions
Great Place To Work Certification is a recognition award earned by companies that meet specific employee experience benchmarks. It highlights organizations with a positive, engaging workplace culture. Working with Great Place To Work gives you a competitive advantage by providing crucial insight on improving your culture as well as greater brand exposure in the employer market.
Organizations partner with Great Place To Work to understand how effectively their leaders create the conditions for an overwhelmingly positive employee experience. Great Place To Work offers best-in-class data about the employee experience, sourced from surveys taken by millions of employees globally. This data offers organizations invaluable insight into how their workers will interact with the workplace and establishes benchmarks for working conditions around the world.
The Certification is the gold standard in workplace culture assessment. It helps organizations recruit and
etain great talent with the badge that says it all. Great Place To Work gives leaders & organizations the recognition, data and tools to create a consistently and overwhelmingly positive employee experience that
fuels financial performance.
Your Certification is valid for 12 months. If your workplace meets participation requirements for our lists, once Certified, your company will be automatically considered for all the Best Workplaces lists that you’re eligible for over the following 12-month period.
The investment is towards participating in the process using the Great Place To Work model & assessment framework and receiving actionable insights from this engagement. The investment will vary depending on the number of employees in an organization. Our team can provide a quote based on a discussion.
No, Certification is earned, not given. It is granted only to organizations that meet specific thresholds, including the minimum participation requirement, achieving at least 70% positive responses in the Trust Index™ survey while successfully completing the audit on survey responses, and submitting a factual company profile.
To undertake The Great Place to Work® assessment and certification, a company should have the employee strength of at least 10 employees in India. Organizations having 10-99 employees must be in existence and operating for over 2 years to be a part of the assessment and certification.
Great Place To Work is the global authority on workplace culture. Organizations around the world partner with Great Place To Work to understand how effectively their leaders create conditions for an overwhelmingly positive employee experience. We offer best-in-class data about employee experience, sourced from research-backed surveys taken by millions of employees globally. This data offers organizations invaluable insight into how their workers will interact with the workplace and establish benchmarks for working conditions around the world.