Top Workplaces 2025: How the winners were selected

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are still working from home, at least for a couple of days each week.

Hybrid and remote work weren’t just pandemic solutions. They’ve become foundational to how people work. In fact, many employees actively seek out flexible work arrangements, and businesses that offer them are seeing stronger retention and higher productivity.

Our annual Top Workplaces report spotlights the rise of remote and hybrid work. We examine how the most effective workplaces support remote workers and make in-office days productive and purposeful. After hastily making work-from-home arrangements during the height of the pandemic, many organizations are now perfecting their approaches.

Flexible work arrangements aren’t an option for every industry. Construction