Is strong leadership a core pillar of your company? If so, find out how you can receive Glassdoor’s Best-Led Companies Award in 2025.
What to know about Best-Led Companies:
Glassdoor’s Best-Led Companies Award honors employers with best-in-class leadership. Unlike other workplace awards, there is no self-nomination process and no cost involved. Winners are determined solely based on reviews provided by those who know a company best — the employees.
Company reviews and ratings from current and former employees submitted between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025 will be considered for the award. Reviews and ratings submitted after June 30, 2025 will not be eligible for the 2025 awards.
While Glassdoor accepts reviews from former employees within five years of leaving a company, the Best-Led Companies 2025 will only consider reviews from former employees who left the company in 2025 or 2024. The winners of Best-Led Companies 2025 are based solely on local-country employee feedback shared on Glassdoor.
Eligibility Requirements for the Best-Led Companies:
To determine the winners of the Best-Led Companies 2025, Glassdoor’s proprietary algorithm, created by Glassdoor’s Economic Research team, considers the quantity, quality and consistency of employee reviews during the eligibility time frame.
The awards also take into account various types of employment status, including full-time, part-time, contract and freelance, however, intern reviews are not considered. Reviews from employees at universities, religious organizations, multi-level marketing agencies, the armed forces and staffing/outsourcing agencies are not considered.
- For the quantity of reviews, at least 75 ratings are required across two leadership attributes that employees can rate when submitting a company review on Glassdoor. They include overall CEO job performance and senior management. A company will not be eligible if there are not enough ratings across all of these leadership attributes.
To be considered for a specific category, an employer must meet the following requirements during the eligibility time frame:
50 Best-Led Companies - U.S. Large Companies
At least 75 ratings across each of the two leadership attributes from U.S.-based employees; at least 1,000 employees at the end of the eligibility time frame. - For quality of reviews, Glassdoor’s proprietary awards algorithm also takes into account what employees have to say that shows winning senior leadership that truly outshine the rest in the eyes of their employees. Quality reviews are those that help job seekers by offering insights and feedback into what it’s really like to work with the CEO and her/his leadership team, as well as at the company itself, including what’s working well, what needs improvement and advice to management, which employees are asked to share when completing a company review. Additionally, Review Intelligence™, a Glassdoor sentiment analysis tool that reads, analyzes, and categorizes reviews to surface topics, insights, and trends was leveraged to score company reviews that mention “senior leadership” and “management” topics.
- For the consistency of reviews, Glassdoor’s proprietary awards algorithm also looks at trends over time as they relate to both quantitative and qualitative insights shared by employees. Both the volume of reviews throughout the entire eligibility period and the consistency of the content in the reviews themselves are considered. In some cases, if an employer lacks quality and/or consistency of reviews, it can impact results and/or eligibility.
Commitment to integrity for all employers:
As part of determining award winners, Glassdoor is committed to the highest level of data integrity and reviews quality, including considering all employers who meet the eligibility requirements, regardless of whether they are customers of Glassdoor. An employer may be excluded from awards consideration if Glassdoor suspects and/or determines company representatives have attempted to influence employee reviews or have tampered with the process of collecting authentic, unbiased reviews, including intentional or unintentional acts that violate the Glassdoor Community Guidelines and/or Terms of Use. Exclusion from eligibility can be triggered by such acts as, but not limited to, management (1) attempts to leave false reviews, (2) coercion of employees to submit positive reviews, (3) attempts to suppress reviews or other activities and/or events which could ultimately damage employees' faith in the employer, its senior leadership and/or adversely affect its overall rating on Glassdoor.
Best-Led Companies 2025 winners will be announced in September 2025.
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