Great Place To Work® – Sri Lanka
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Great Place To Work® – Sri Lanka
Great Place To Work® helps companies attract and retain top talent, improve productivity, enhance reputation, and gain valuable insights into their workplace culture. Here’s everything you need to know about participating in the Great Place To Work Certification™ process and being featured on Best Workplaces™ Lists.
Great Place To Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience and the leadership behaviours proven to deliver improved revenue and increased innovation. We help companies around the world survey their employees, benchmark their results, identify gaps, and improve their culture. Ours is the only national recognition program based on a rigorous methodology and validated employee feedback.
A minimum of 10 Sri Lankan based employees to undertake the trust index survey employees. To be certified, you need to score a minimum of 70%.
Yes, we charge a fee for the propriety products, platforms, and services. Our solutions are tailored to the specific business needs that are relevant to your organization. Get in touch with one of our Great Place to Work® experts to discuss your requirements.
To also be eligible for our Best Workplaces™ Programme, you will need to earn a certification and pass a rigorous assessment of your organisation’s workplace culture.
An organization that has completed the survey process of the year may receive certification if they have met the minimum required threshold in the trust index employee survey and submitted their culture brief telling us about their organizations culture.
All certified workplaces in a given cycle are pooled and the best workplaces™ are selected in merit order using the rigorous process based on the outcome of the Trust Index™ and culture brief.
Great Place to Work® provides recognition of workplace culture via the certification programme and Best Workplaces™ list which are published throughout the year. We have an unique methodology in measuring, baselining and benchmarking organisation’s culture across similar sizes and industries.
We provide organizations with recognition opportunities in organizations at industry, national and global level.
Great Place To Work® Certification™ recognises employers who create an outstanding employee experience. Certification is a two-step process that includes surveying your employees and completing a short questionnaire about your workforce.
Certification is a two-step process that includes surveying your employees and completing a short questionnaire about your workplace history and demographics. Soon after the survey has closed, and provided you have submitted your Culture Brief™ questionnaire and earned an overall survey score of 70% or higher, you will receive your official Certification digital badge, valid for 12 months.
At Great Place To Work ®, we provide three comprehensive packages: Assess, Analyse, and Accelerate, all based around our employee survey. Each package offers different levels of data analysis and guidance, along with the opportunity to achieve Certification and earn recognition as one of the Best Workplaces. The pricing for these packages is determined by various factors, including the organisation’s size, whether it requires a national or international survey, and any specific requirements your organisation may have for the survey and follow-up process.
We typically suggest a 2-week window to launch your survey – and with our survey platform, you’re able to view and analyse the results of your survey as soon as the survey closes. Shortly after the survey has closed, and provided you have submitted your Culture Brief™ questionnaire and earned an overall survey score of 70 % or higher, you will receive your official Certification digital badge, valid for 12 months.
Being a Certified great workplace has several benefits for an organisation. It serves as a valuable external validation of your company’s commitment to its employees which, in turn, will enhance your reputation as an employer of choice. It can also attract and retain high-quality talent, improve employee engagement and satisfaction, and contribute to overall business success.
No, the status of Great Place To Work® Certification™ is not permanent. The certification is valid for a maximum of 12 months from the date the employee survey is completed. The certification badge provided will indicate the 12-month period of validity.
To continue being recognized after 12 months, an organization must undergo reassessment again. This involves conducting a new employee survey to gather updated feedback, as employee experiences and perceptions can change over time. An organization can only be recertified if it meets the global threshold again.
Yes. We take our ethical obligation to survey takers very seriously. Employees can rest assured that their participation is completely confidential and voluntary. Survey responses come directly to Great Place To Work®. Employers cannot see who has or who has not completed the survey while the survey is live. We remove unique identifiers once the survey closes. For employers, company participation in the Certification program and the survey results are completely confidential. We do not publish the details of any organisations who do not achieve Certification or Best Workplaces™ recognition.
Yes! Our Trust Index™ survey is available in over 50 languages, and they’re all available for you to use at no additional cost.
You don’t have to wait for annual list recognition to begin your journey towards creating a better workplace for all! Some organisations partner with us on an annual basis, supplementing main measures with additional pulse surveys throughout the year as a temperature check on their actions. Other clients make frequent pulse checks on a quarterly or even monthly basis. Ultimately, we believe that measures should only be taken at a frequency where you feel important change may happen.
You can add custom questions at some subscription tiers. While our core Trust Index statements must remain unedited in order to consider you for Great Place To Work Certification and our awards, we offer different subscription tiers that allow you to add your own open-ended questions, demographic questions, and survey statements. Any additional survey statements which are not required for a specific Best Workplaces List will not be evaluated as part of our awards, so you can collect the feedback you find most relevant to your business without it impacting your Certification result.
Yes. Once your survey is closed, you will immediately get (at minimum) an overview of your scores so you can see how your employee experience measures against our key evaluation areas, and how you stack up against our Best Workplaces benchmarks.
You will not lose previous data. We are highly experienced in ensuring the smooth transition from an existing questionnaire to our Trust Index™ employee survey. Being able to track’ trend’ comparisons on individual questions across time is a crucial requirement if you already have employee data from your current survey. This is true for many of our clients, who have an established survey that has been used for several years. Customisation of our Trust Index™ format allows you to track and compare data on bespoke historic engagement questions.
Your individual survey responses will never be shared with your employer in a way that identifies you. Your employer will only receive a summary of aggregated percentage of de-identified responses based on demographic groups.
Your answers in the survey will remain confidential, and your employer will never be granted access to the raw responses. However, please note that verbatim responses to open-ended questions will be grouped and provided anonymously to your employer in a collective document.
The survey can be conducted through two methods: online and/or physical hard copies.
The online survey offers two options for accessing the survey link: email (default) and/or kiosk mode. Responses to the online survey, once submitted, are anonymized, grouped by demographic categories, and stored directly on the Great Place To Work® Global secure platform.
Please note that while employees receive direct survey links via email, their email addresses are not used to collect responses. Once submitted, an individual’s responses cannot be identified through their email address.
The online survey is designed for convenience, taking approximately 20 minutes to complete, and can be accessed anytime, anywhere during the active survey period.
For the physical hard copy method, Great Place To Work® has implemented a robust methodology to protect employees from being identified. Contact us for more details.
Yes, the survey is completely anonymous and confidential. All responses are logged anonymously and cannot be accessed by anyone, including Great Place To Work® Sri Lanka or the client organization. To further protect anonymity, results are aggregated and displayed as percentages based on demographic groups.
Results for demographic groups with fewer than five responses are not displayed separately, to protect small groups from being identified.
Additionally, whether an individual has completed the survey is never disclosed, ensuring complete privacy for all participants. However, aggregate percentages of survey completions by demographic group (with more than five responses) are made available to client organizations to encourage sufficient participation for statistical validity.
To ensure fairness and transparency, clear administration guidelines are provided to participating organizations, emphasizing that while employees can be encouraged to participate, they should not be influenced in any way regarding how they respond to the survey.
Client organizations are supplied with materials to communicate information to employees through both written and verbal channels, ensuring understanding. These materials include flyers, notices, messages from senior management, awareness presentation decks, and videos in all three languages. Additionally, client organizations can arrange live employee awareness sessions conducted by Great Place To Work® representatives, including Q&A sessions to address any employee concerns.
An anonymous hotline (+94 114 545 594) is available for employees to report any concerns or violations of the process. Employees can also report concerns via email or by scanning a QR code: LK_General@greatplacetowork.com / Report Your Concerns
Depending on the need, post-survey audits may be conducted. These can include phone calls to randomly selected employees to verify their experience and the authenticity of the results, while strictly maintaining anonymity.
Client organizations found tampering with results, based on evidence provided by employee whistleblowers, will be disqualified from the recognition programme.
For more information, please visit: Whistle Blower Policy
No, the professional fee charged by Great Place To Work® is solely for the use of copyrighted, global-standard tools, levels of reporting, and the type of survey administration.
The survey results are entirely based on employee feedback and are not influenced by the fee or any external factors. No organization can pay to obtain certification. Once submitted to the platform, employee responses cannot be manipulated and cannot be accessed individually by your employer or by anyone at Great Place To Work® Sri Lanka.
Great Place To Work® encourages maximum participation by designing the survey to be convenient and accessible, allowing employees to complete it anytime, anywhere during the active survey period.
Collective demographic response numbers are automatically summarized by the Great Place To Work® platform throughout the survey period. This supports monitoring and encouraging participation to ensure enough responses are captured for statistically valid results.
For online, email-based surveys, the Great Place To Work® platform can send bulk reminder emails to non-respondents only, while preserving anonymity. Steps have been taken to ensure that individual participation cannot be identified through this process.
Additionally, Great Place To Work® provides organizations with pre-approved awareness materials and clear guidelines to motivate employees to participate and share their honest feedback, fostering inclusivity and engagement.
Employees to participate and share their honest feedback, fostering inclusivity and engagement.
If any violations are reported, Great Place To Work® investigates the matter thoroughly and if there is evidence on tampering or undue influence of results participating organization will be disqualified from the certification process
Employees can report concerns through an anonymous hotline (+94 114 545 594) or email us at Lk_general@greatplacetowork.com. You may also fill out the annoymous form below: Report Your Concerns.
Post-survey audits are also conducted at random to ensure the integrity of the process and employees can report issues at that point as well.
To further protect confidentiality, results for groups with fewer than five responses are not displayed separately. This ensures that small groups cannot be identified or targeted and can provide honest and open feedback.
Prior to launching the survey, and in order to enable you to respond to it, your employer is required to provide us with information to contact you, some of which is likely to identify you, like email address, contact number and therefore constitutes personal data. This personal data is determined by your employer, who inturn should have obtained permission internally to undertake the Great Place To Work® survey.
During the survey process, you also have the opportunity to provide us, directly via the survey platform, with some additional demographic information about yourself, based on your free and informed consent. This information cannot be used to identify you individually and will only be used to categorize survey results into key demographic groups to produce a more accurate and refined survey result for better understanding and post survey action by your employer.
We only use your personal data as part of the performance of our services (legal basis for processing) during the survey period, to configure the platform which hosts the survey, to enable you to access and complete the survey, and to manage and administer the survey until its completion.
Your personal data will not be kept beyond the period strictly necessary for the purposes pursued as set out in this Confidentiality Disclosure, and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable laws.
Your answers to this survey, once de-identified, aggregated and processed, are summarized and provided to your employer to understand high and low employee perceptions as well as areas of strength and areas for improvement within the organization (possibly across demographic groups) in order to take action to leverage those strengths better and address shortcomings thereafter.
If your employer registers to participate in the Great Place To Work® Recognition Programme, the employee survey results passing the global thresholds additionally enables your employer earn a 12 month Great Place To Work® Certification. Once certified, an employer can be additionally selected and recognized in one or many of the various Best Workplaces™ lists based on employee feedback and organization submission of people practices that contribute to creating a great place to work.
Great Place To Work is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience and the leadership behaviours proven to deliver improved revenue and increased innovation. We help companies around the world survey their employees, benchmark their results, identify gaps, and improve their culture. Ours is the only national recognition program based on a rigorous methodology and validated employee feedback.
A minimum of 10 Sri Lankan based employees to undertake the trust index survey employees. To be certified, you need to score a minimum of 70%.
Yes, we charge a fee for the propriety products, platforms, and services. Our solutions are tailored to the specific business needs that are relevant to your organization. Get in touch with one of our Great Place to Work® experts to discuss your requirements.
To also be eligible for our Best Workplaces™ Programme, you will need to earn a certification and pass a rigorous assessment of your organisation's workplace culture.
An organization that has completed the survey process of the year may receive certification if they have met the minimum required threshold in the trust index employee survey and submitted their culture brief telling us about their organizations culture.
All certified workplaces in a given cycle are pooled and the best workplaces™ are selected in merit order using the rigorous process based on the outcome of the trust index and culture brief.
Great Place to Work® provides recognition of workplace culture via the certification programme and Best Workplaces™ list which are published throughout the year. We have an unique methodology in measuring, baselining and benchmarking organisation’s culture across similar sizes and industries.
We provide organizations with recognition opportunities in organizations at industry, national and global level.
Great Place To Work® Certification™ recognises employers who create an outstanding employee experience. Certification is a two-step process that includes surveying your employees and completing a short questionnaire about your workforce.
Certification is a two-step process that includes surveying your employees and completing a short questionnaire about your workplace history and demographics. Soon after the survey has closed, and provided you have submitted your Culture Brief questionnaire and earned an overall survey score of 70% or higher, you will receive your official Certification™ digital badge, valid for 12 months.
At Great Place To Work ®, we provide three comprehensive packages: Assess™, Analyse™, and Accelerate™, all based around our employee survey. Each package offers different levels of data analysis and guidance, along with the opportunity to achieve Certification and earn recognition as one of the Best Workplaces. The pricing for these packages is determined by various factors, including the organisation’s size, whether it requires a national or international survey, and any specific requirements your organisation may have for the survey and follow-up process.
We typically suggest a 2-week window to launch your survey – and with our survey platform, you're able to view and analyse the results of your survey as soon as the survey closes. Shortly after the survey has closed, and provided you have submitted your Culture Brief questionnaire and earned an overall survey score of 70 % or higher, you will receive your official Certification™ digital badge, valid for 12 months.
Being a Certified great workplace has several benefits for an organisation. It serves as a valuable external validation of your company’s commitment to its employees which, in turn, will enhance your reputation as an employer of choice. It can also attract and retain high-quality talent, improve employee engagement and satisfaction, and contribute to overall business success.
Yes. We take our ethical obligation to survey takers very seriously. Employees can rest assured that their participation is completely confidential and voluntary. Survey responses come directly to Great Place To Work®. Employers cannot see who has or who has not completed the survey while the survey is live. We remove unique identifiers once the survey closes. For employers, company participation in the Certification program and the survey results are completely confidential. We do not publish the details of any organisations who do not achieve Certification or Best Workplaces recognition.
Yes! Our Trust Index™ survey is available in over 50 languages, and they’re all available for you to use at no additional cost.
You don't have to wait for annual list recognition to begin your journey towards creating a better workplace for all! Some organisations partner with us on an annual basis, supplementing main measures with additional pulse surveys throughout the year as a temperature check on their actions. Other clients make frequent pulse checks on a quarterly or even monthly basis. Ultimately, we believe that measures should only be taken at a frequency where you feel important change may happen.
You can add custom questions at some subscription tiers. While our core Trust Index statements must remain unedited in order to consider you for Great Place To Work Certification and our awards, we offer different subscription tiers that allow you to add your own open-ended questions, demographic questions, and survey statements. Any additional survey statements which are not required for a specific Best Workplaces List will not be evaluated as part of our awards, so you can collect the feedback you find most relevant to your business without it impacting your Certification result.
Yes. Once your survey is closed, you will immediately get (at minimum) an overview of your scores so you can see how your employee experience measures against our key evaluation areas, and how you stack up against our Best Workplaces benchmarks.
You will not lose previous data. We are highly experienced in ensuring the smooth transition from an existing questionnaire to our Trust Index™ employee survey. Being able to track 'trend' comparisons on individual questions across time is a crucial requirement if you already have employee data from your current survey. This is true for many of our clients, who have an established survey that has been used for several years. Customisation of our Trust Index™ format allows you to track and compare data on bespoke historic engagement questions.
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