Why these companies are Australia’s best places to work in 2025
Management consultancy Empact Group is crowned the 2025 Financial Review BOSS Best Place to Work.
“We start with the assumption that everything is solvable when it comes to the way that you want to work,” says Claire Thomas, founder of Empact Group. Dominic Lorrimer
Guidelines that ensure all of Empact Group’s employees uphold the purpose and values of the management consultancy have enabled the firm to accommodate staff from a wide array of backgrounds, including neurodiverse individuals, underpinning the decision to award the Canberra-based firm the 2025 Financial Review BOSS Best Place to Work, which is presented in collaboration with Bendelta.
From the outset, Empact founder Claire Thomas wanted to create a company where staff felt they could individually and collectively feel empowered to act, a goal she recognised could only be achieved if she did more than merely pay lip service to diversity of thought, background and experience.
Sally PattenBOSS editorSally Patten edits BOSS, and writes about workplace issues. She was the financial services editor and personal finance editor of the AFR, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. She edited business news for The Times of London. Connect with Sally on Twitter. Email Sally at spatten@afr.com
