This nationwide workplace survey honours and celebrates the UK’s top employers and acknowledges the best workplaces for everyone including women, LGBTQIA+ community, disabled employees, ethnic minorities, younger and older workers, and wellbeing.
The Sunday Times partnered with employee-experience platform WorkL to deliver fresh insights into what makes a Best Place to Work. The awards uses 26 questions from WorkL’s employee engagement survey, developed by behavioural scientists, data analysts, psychologists, business leaders, academics and other independent parties to most accurately monitor employee engagement, wellbeing and discretionary effort in the workplace. To achieve a high overall engagement score, an organisation must score well across WorkL’s six-step framework:
- Reward and Recognition
- Instilling Pride
- Information Sharing
- Empowerment
- Wellbeing
- Job Satisfaction
Bal Johal, Co-CEO, commented
“MML is only ever as successful as its people, with happy and engaged team members we make better investment decisions. We’re proud of our diverse and inclusive culture. It is no coincidence that we have provided leading private equity returns to our investors over a long, long time – the two-go hand in hand. We look forward to making MML an even better place to work in the future.”
Zoe Thomas, editor of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work, said:
“The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025 employers have brought clever and inventive ideas to bear on their workforces: whether entrusting every employee with a company credit card, extending the dog-friendly office policy to include pet bereavement leave, or simply training employees sensibly so they feel empowered and enthused about their jobs. These are companies where staff have a spring in their step on Monday mornings and a willingness to go the extra mile. Why have a job just anywhere when you could be carving out a career at a Sunday Times Best Place to Work?”
