"2007 accreditation is an outstanding achievement.

It confirms their commitment to the on-going journey of workplace engagement.

Our role is to set a rigorous benchmark so that organisations can become even better employers."

Jonathan Austin
Chief Executive
Best Companies

Success in achieving Star Status

We are very proud to have acheived the Best Companies 2007 accreditation. The firm is one of just 250 that has been awarded with this significant accolade which highlights the success of our business and our commitment to being a good employer.

The Accreditation, developed by Best Companies, is based on a star rating system where one star is first class, two stars is outstanding, and three stars are extraordinary. Organisational successes have been defined using data from the 2007 Best Companies to Work For survey which involved surveying over 100,00 employees from 434 companies.

The Best Companies survey is designed to measure employee engagement and uses 70 questions to gain a comprehensive view of employee engagement across eight factors. Every company that goes for Best Companies Accreditation is given a Best Companies Index score (BCI). This score (on a scale of 1 to 1000) is defined from employees responses to the sixteen key questions within the Best Companies survey. 'Star Status' is determined by the 'BCI' score and the specific cut-off points for One, Two and Three Star Accreditation remain constant year on year.

About Best Companies Ltd

Best Companies Ltd is dedicated to 'Helping make the World a better Workplace'. They achieve this by providing organisations that participate in their research with high quality data about how engaged their employees are with their business. The data is compiled by utilizing their highly academically rigourous methodology that has been created by asking over 400,000 employees about what they want from their workplace experience. Having surveyed over 1,900 organisations they have a unique ability to provide extremely strong benchmarks, both by industry sector as well as identifying best practice within the UK labour market.

Best Companies researches and compiles The Sunday Times Best Companies to Work for lists, and has a wealth of real-life examples of best practice, that can show you how to give your business a better chance in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

They have been providing the unique methodology for The Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For since 2001. The organisation also conducts a wide range of ongoing detailed research based on their authoritative and highly rigorous methodology.