What makes a workplace a great home for its employees? The simple answer is that the best places are those where the employees are happy and most engaged in what they do.
Happiness and being engaged in their work have become synonymous. The list of The Australian’s Best Places to Work is in fact a result of measuring employee happiness. The Australian, in its quest to find the Best Places to Work, has partnered with WorkL, which has a proven methodology based on six key drivers of workplace engagement: Reward and Recognition; Information Sharing; Empowerment; Wellbeing; Instilling Pride; and Job Satisfaction.
WorkL founder Lord Mark Price says workplaces with happy and highly engaged employees typically experience higher productivity, reduced staff turnover and sick absence, and higher profits. These workplaces also find it easier to retain employees and recruit new staff.
The workplaces in the list of The Australian Best Places to Work 2024 have excelled in creating the magic of employee happiness, without which businesses cannot thrive.
■ The full list of The Australian Best Places to Work 2024 is below.
■ Spotlight winners and the list of the best of the best are here.
■ The six-step framework behind the methodology is here - it is also outlined in Lord Mark Price’s commentary.
Each of the workplaces in the list, presented below in alphabetical order, has scored 70 per cent or more in total employee engagement. They have scored strongly across all the six key drivers underpinning WorkL’s methodology, which emphasises the importance of stellar all-round performance.
They have worked hard to get their workplace strategies right, keeping their staff engaged and happy, and in return are ready to reap the rewards and financial successes that accrue to workplaces which go above and beyond the old-fashioned higher-pay-for-more-work plan.
These workplaces reward their employees and recognise their efforts; they ensure information is shared within the team and across teams; they empower their staff to be innovative and develop their skills; they take care of their staff’s physical and mental wellbeing; they set a high value on pride about the workplace and the sense of belonging that the employees feel; and they make sure their employees feel a sense of satisfaction in doing the work they do.
In the list are small firms with staff numbers below 50, medium-sized firms with 50-249 staff and big and very big firms with more than 250 employees. This page names the winners in these categories by organisation size, on the basis of their overall scores.
‘They have worked hard to get their workplace strategies right, keeping their staff engaged and happy, and in return are ready to reap the rewards and financial successes.’
Many of the workplaces in The Australian Best Places to Work are winners in separate demographic categories: they have been chosen the best places to work for women; for disabled employees; for ethnic minorities; for LGBTQ+ employees; for employees aged 16-34; and for employees aged 55+.
The workplaces in the list can feel justifiably proud of being the Best Places to Work. They are winners of the best kind of accolade possible. They have developed strategies that have demonstrated that employees’ happiness is the best answer to increasing their innovative ability and productivity.
Congratulations to all those included in The Australian’s list of the Best Places to Work 2024. It takes a lot to be the best. And it isn’t easy to keep making the elixir of happiness. The Australian wishes every one of these firms all the best for a happy and engaged future. workplaces in the list of The Australian Best Places to Work 2024 have excelled in creating the magic of employee happiness, without which businesses cannot thrive.
Each of the workplaces in the list, published in alphabetical order across three pages of this report, has scored 70 per cent or more in total employee engagement. They have scored strongly across all the six key drivers underpinning WorkL’s methodology, which emphasises the importance of stellar all-round performance.
They have worked hard to get their workplace strategies right, keeping their staff engaged and happy, and in return are ready to reap the rewards and financial successes that accrue to workplaces which go above and beyond the old-fashioned higher-pay-for-more-work plan.
These workplaces reward their employees and recognise their efforts; they ensure information is shared within the team and across teams; they empower their staff to be innovative and develop their skills; they take care of their staff’s physical and mental wellbeing; they set a high value on pride about the workplace and the sense of belonging that the employees feel; and they make sure their employees feel a sense of satisfaction in doing the work they do.
In the list are small firms with staff numbers below 50, medium-sized firms with 50-249 staff and big and very big firms with more than 250 employees. This page names the winners in these categories by organisation size, on the basis of their overall scores, which are derived from the responses to survey questions provided by their employees.
Many of the workplaces in The Australian Best Places to Work are winners in the categories by demographics: they have been chosen the best places to work for women; for disabled employees; for ethnic minorities; for LGBTQ+ employees; for employees aged 16-34; and for employees aged 55+.