How happy is your office?

Organisations can enter The Australian’s Best Places to Work awards and be in the running one for one of 10 award categories. They will need to send a survey to their employees via a link.

Put in your entry for The Australian Best Places to Work awards

More than 22,000 Australians have headed to WorkL.com to nominate their employer for the Best Places to Work awards, completing a similar short survey to the one entering organisations will share with their staff.In just a few weeks, more than 5000 organisations have been nominated, covering 26 different sectors from architecture and design to wholesale. So far 570 retailers have been listed, from Coles, Woolworths and Bunnings in the very large category to small florists, shoe shops and independent stores in the small company category.

In financial services, employees have put forward 243 businesses so far, from banks to pension funds. Public service and government workers have nominated 228 organisations, including local and city councils as well as most state and national government departments.

The Australian, working with WorkL, has launched its search to find the best places to work in Australia with the aim to recognise them with an award and feature them online and in a special supplement.

How happy is your workplace? Find out

Organisations can enter for the awards here: https://business.workl.co/workplace-awards/the-australian-au

Organisations entering for the awards will need to send a survey to their employees via a personalised link.

The survey features 35 questions centred around WorkL’s widely approved employee engagement framework, which incorporates its six steps to workplace happiness, which includes reward & recognition, which are integral to retaining talent.

Developed by behavioural scientists, data analysts, psychologists, business leaders, academics and other independent parties, the survey accurately monitors employee engagement and wellbeing in the workplace.

To achieve a high overall engagement score, a company must consistently perform well across its six-step framework, which encompasses these categories: reward and recognition, instilling pride, information sharing, empowerment, wellbeing and job satisfaction.

Each of WorkL’s six steps consists of between three and five key elements, which are measured on a 0-10 scale.

The awards will recognise organisations with the highest levels of employee engagement, wellbeing and satisfaction, and businesses will be recognised by company size and by the following categories as well:

● Best small place to work

● Best medium place to work

● Best big place to work

● Best very big place to work

● Best places to work for women

● Best places to work for ethnic minority employees

● Best places to work for disabled employees

● Best places to work for age ranges 16-34 and 55+

● Best places to work for LGBTQ+ employees

● Best places to work for employee wellbeing

The deadline for entry is December 15, with results announced in February 2024.

Entering for the award is easy and takes no longer than 10 minutes to complete. Email [e-mail].