• No ranking
• Monthly certification
• Valid for 12 months
• Mandatory Trust Index™ employee survey with approval rate of 65%.
• Mandatory completed Culture Brief™.

The next step after certification are the Best Workplaces™ - find out more here.

For certification, an average approval rating of at least 65% must be achieved in the Trust Index™ employee survey. In other words, how often the answers "Often true" and "Almost always true" were given.
The Culture Brief™ with general information and some key figures about the company must also be submitted.

To be certified, the minimum size of an organisation is 10 employees.

The certification is valid for 12 months. The logo includes the valid period.

You can find our current product packages with prices here.
Depending on your evaluation needs your offer can be compiled or upgraded.
If you have any questions, we would also be happy to advise you in a personal meeting.

The certification can be carried out throughout the year. You can participate whenever you want and it fits your agenda to promote your employer brand.

The time to certification is individual and depends on the scheduling and the size of the organisation. Depending on this, it takes between 5-6 weeks to complete the Trust Index™. The Culture Brief™ must be submitted on the last day of the Trust Index™ survey.

Accordingly, a project takes between 5-6 weeks, although the duration tends to be shorter for smaller companies.

On the specified dates, the standardised Trust Index™ questionnaire is sent to employees, who can answer it during two weeks.
The organisation must submit the Culture Brief™, which asks for general information and key figures about the company.
After the evaluation, the results are communicated. The evaluation also shows whether organisations have qualified for the certification.
At the same time, the certification communication measures are coordinated between the organisation and Great Place to Work.
The certification is communicated monthly on a company-specific basis. 

The Best Workplaces™ Switzerland are the optional next step after being Great Place to Work®-Certified™. Find out more about the Best Workplaces™ here.

No, participation requires the Trust Index™ employee survey to be conducted via Great Place to Work®.
This is the only way we can guarantee compliance with the Fairness Rules & Quality Standards for all participating companies.

If the criteria for certification are not achieved, the organisation will not receive an award. The non-achievement will not be mentioned publicly.
There is no guarantee of certification, so there is no reimbursement of costs in case of non-achievement. In addition to project management and the analysis of the results, the costs also consist of the evaluations and recommendations of our consultants.

The effort for the HR department regarding the Trust Index™ employee survey is minimal, as we provide support both in internal communication and in the efficient implementation of the project.

The effort required to complete the Culture Brief™ takes a maximum of 2-3 hours.

No, the decision for participating in the certification is up to the client before the start of the project. Once the project has started, the decision cannot be changed (e.g. a client realizes he won't get certified and therefore doesn't want to participate).

Organisations that do not achieve certification are not communicated. We don't want to point the finger at organisations that didn't make it, but rather promote those organisations that are good or even the best at what they do for their employees.

Great Place to Work complies with all data protection regulations of the GDPR and generally all laws concerning data protection. We are also data protection compliant with organisations with increased data protection regulations such as banking institutions.

Yes, we also survey employees internationally and offer certifications outside of Switzerland. 

We can thus:

• offer companies a seamless implementation for the international survey with a single point of contact (up to 40 languages at once for the employee survey).
• compare and prepare data between countries
• offer tailored approaches per country: for data sharing and participation in Best Workplaces™.
• offer local services with our local country affiliates to provide even more valuable insights
• compare with local benchmarks / data (what applies in Switzerland does not apply in Japan, for example)