Best Employers Award: Excellence in Health & Well-being FAQs

Best Employers Award: Excellence in Health & Well-being FAQs

The 2025 Best Employers Award: Excellence in Health & Well-being application opens September 5, 2024.

The Best Employers Award: Excellence in Health & Well-being criteria honors the importance of strategic, thoughtful approaches to well-being and health equity. The application is designed to reflect leading and innovative practices in the following core areas:

  • Leadership, Culture and Well-being Strategy
  • Holistic Well-being
  • Engagement and the Employee Experience
  • Equitable Benefits and Social Determinants of Health
  • Metrics and Evaluation
  • Local, national and global recognition as a company that values the health and well-being of its employees
  • Brand recognition as an employer of choice
  • Elevation of health and well-being internally with senior leaders and employees
  • Individual benchmarking report
  • Digital award seal to use for promotional and recruitment purposes
  • Press release template
  • Recognition at the awards ceremony during Business Group’s Annual Conference
  • Discounted Annual Conference registration rate
  • Listing on Business Group on Health website

Both Business Group on Health members and non-member companies can apply. Non-member companies must meet at least one of the following criteria:

  • Fortune 500 Company;
  • Top 100 of Forbes America's Largest Private Companies;
  • Forbes Global 2000; or
  • A workforce with at least 5,000 employees.

Companies headquartered in and outside the U.S. can apply.

The Business Group will allow one parent and one sub-unit/division to apply.

Each application is reviewed by both peer health and well-being leaders at large employers and members of the Business Group on Health team. If you are interested in volunteering as a judge, please email [email protected].

No. All applications must be submitted electronically through the online system.

For first time applicants, it can take up to 80-100 hours total to complete the application in full. This can include an extensive review period from project managers, public relations and communications teams. Most applicants work on it weekly starting opening day (September 5, 2024 - November 15, 2024). We share a PDF of the application in July so applicants can get a head start on compiling responses before the SurveyMonkey application opens. For companies that are returning applicants, we estimate it may take up to 40-50 hours to complete the application. We highly recommend applicants start as early as possible.