Work Style - Great Place to Work Institute

The Great Place To Work ® Institute report lists the 50 Best Small
and Medium-Sized Workplaces (companies with less than 500
employees) and the 50 Best Large Workplaces in Europe this year.
The Great Place To Work ® Institute is an international organization which
has been identifying and evaluating great workplaces for the past 25
years, ever since Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz, two journalists
based in San Francisco (California), published their bestselling book,
100 Best Companies to Work for in America. Their first list of the Best
Workplaces in Europe was supported by the European Commission which
sought to help the European business community with developing great
workplaces, improving quality of life, and elevating the competitiveness
of industries in Europe.
38 Bristol-Myers Squibb
Greece, Poland
• Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
• 334
• www.bms.com
39 Psimitis
Greece
• Health Care
• 75
• www.psimitis.gr
40 Grupo Visual MS
Spain
• Information Technology
• 51
• www.visualms.com
41 Tandberg
Norway
• Information Technology
• 473
• www.tandberg.no
42 Centiro Solutions
Sweden
• Information Technology
• 59
• www.centiro.se
43 Ormit
The Netherlands
• Management Consulting
• 152
• www.ormit.nl
Legend
Country winners
• Business sector
• Employees
• Web site
44 Novia Finland Oy
Finland
• Professional Services
• 90
• www.noviafinland.fi
45 Webstep
Norway
• IT Consulting
• 180
• www.webstep.no
46 House of Performance
The Netherlands
• Management Consulting
• 54
• www.hofp.nl
47 Worthington Cylinders
Austria
• Manufacturing & Production
• 368
• www.worthingtoncylinders.com
48 Impact International
UK
• Professional Services
• 103
• www.impact-dtg.com
49 Jones Lang LaSalle
Ireland
• Real Estate
• 74
• www.joneslanglasalle.ie
50 Accuracy
France
• Consulting-Actuarial, Risk Assessment
• 77
• www.accuracy.fr
suggestions” states Arnt R Aasen,
Director of Communications / Adviser.
The ideas are disparate
and often applied to
entire processes.
In Danone UK for example, Melanie
Lejette tells us “This process
has been used for: Reviewing the
flexible benefits choices, changing
a company policy, improve our
Active Health Programme, sharing
the results and the actions following
the feedback on the various
surveys”.
Sometimes the ideas of the employees
contribute to the naming
of the company, as in the Autisme
Center Sjælland Denmark. “The
name was adopted and put into
service in 2003 and in this context,
a competition was held to create a
new beautiful and distinctive logo.
The contestants were both residents
and staff” says Arnt R Aasen,
Director of Communications /
Adviser.
Other ideas have been implemented
to improve a service or to better
plan activities: “Just now there has
been a wish from the employees
to centralise customers with losses
and a new employee has been
hired to fulfil this job” states Bente
Graae from Frøs Herreds Sparekasse
Denmark.
Another example comes from
Psimitis Greece, when the personnel
recommended a new system to
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twsm — GPTW Special Issue 2010