HOW TO FIND A WORKPLACE THAT LOVES YOU BACK

Insights from America's Top Most Loved Workplaces

- LOUIS CARTER

WE SPEND TOO MUCH of our lives working to waste our time at a toxic job. I founded the Best Practice Institute, a research organization, to find a better way forward. Drawing on our research, BPI created the America's Top Most Loved Workplaces®, an annual research project in partnership with Newsweek that dives into how employees really feel about the places where they work. This year, more than 1,200 companies were accepted to apply to be Most Loved Workplace certified, but only 500 were certified, and 200 made it to America's Top Most Loved Workplaces list in this special Newsweek issue.

The project showed that when employees love their workplace, it can have major benefits for their companies.

These organizations vary widely, ranging in size from less than 50 employees to over 100,000, and serve their customers with anything from delicious breakfasts to cloud-based platforms.

But despite their differences, the qualifying companies all found ways to make their employees feel love for their workplace. The companies saw a 94 percent increase in employee performance and four times the retention of other companies. They share a common understanding that seeing their people succeed is one of their most important goals.