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Announcing the 2025 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award Winners
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Announcing the 2025 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award Winners

Since 2007, Gallup has recognized world-class organizations with the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award. Learn more here.

Workplace challenges didn’t ease in 2024.  Amid shifting work location policies, AI’s rapid advancement, and a continued decline in U.S. employee engagement, many workers felt disconnected from their roles. Despite these obstacles, the 2025 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award winners set themselves apart by intentionally creating environments where employees feel valued and heard.

This year’s 70 winning organizations differ in industry, size, and customer base, but they share a core belief: people are their greatest asset. Whether a multinational corporation or a regional business, each has made employee engagement and development a priority, unlocking the potential of their teams. Some organizations have even discovered the power of combining engagement with a strengths-based approach.

Whatever their specific strategies, these winning organizations have elevated the employee experience while strengthening business outcomes, demonstrating that investing in people fuels long-term success.

In an evolving workplace landscape, these organizations set the standard for excellence, proving that when employees thrive, businesses do too.

2025 GEWA Winners by the Numbers: Engagement

Engagement among Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award engagement winners is 70%, based on Q12 employee engagement surveys administered between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2024. On average, these 62 world-class organizations have 14 engaged employees for every one actively disengaged employee -- eight times the rate in the U.S. and 12 times the global average.

Exceptionally high levels of employee engagement allowed these organizations to adapt and adjust in response to the challenges last year held. Gallup's engagement meta-analysis found that top- and bottom-quartile business units and teams had the following differences in business outcomes:

  • 81% in absenteeism
  • 58% in patient safety incidents (mortality and falls)
  • 18% in turnover for high-turnover organizations
  • 43% in turnover for low-turnover organizations
  • 28% in shrinkage (theft)
  • 64% in safety incidents (accidents)
  • 41% in quality (defects)
  • 10% in customer loyalty/engagement
  • 18% in productivity (sales)
  • 23% in profitability

Congratulations to the 2025 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award winners for engagement:

2025 GEWA Winners by the Numbers: Strengths

Previously known as the Don Clifton Strengths-Based Culture Award, winners of the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for strengths are unique in their ability to create thriving cultures and achieve outstanding business outcomes while investing in the strengths of their people to maximize the potential of their employees and teams. These 12 organizations achieve more by helping employees focus on what they do best and integrating strengths-accelerated development into their mission, vision and values.

Companies that incorporate strengths into their culture experience:

  • 23% higher employee engagement
  • 29% higher profit
  • 19% higher sales
  • 72% lower turnover

Congratulations to the 2025 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award winners for strengths:

Learn more about the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award criteria.

 


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