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Symbol Employer Awards 2026

The Global Symbol of Employer Excellence

Part of the Symbol Awards, celebrating success worldwide since 2009, the Global Employer Awards recognize excellence in people strategy, culture, and employee experience, and honor organizations that inspire belonging and empower growth.

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100+ award categories

Infinite opportunities to shine

1.
Employers & HR Services
Celebrating organizations and partners that raise the standard for great workplaces through care, innovation, and people-centered practices.
2.
HR Strategies
Recognizing visionary frameworks and long-term initiatives that strengthen culture, brand, and employee development within organizations.
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HR Projects & Campaigns
Celebrating impactful projects and campaigns that bring HR strategies to life and create lasting change for people and culture in the workspace and beyond.
Organizational Leadership
Honoring individuals and teams who lead with purpose, vision, and empathy to shape thriving, people-first organizations.
Grand Prix Employers & HR Services
The highest honor for employer excellence, recognizing organizations and partners that redefine what it means to create workplaces where people and performance thrive together.
The highest honor for employer excellence, recognizing organizations and partners that redefine what it means to create workplaces where people and performance thrive together.
Grand Prix Employers & HR Services
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The highest honor for employer excellence, recognizing organizations and partners that redefine what it means to create workplaces where people and performance thrive together.
Grand Prix Employer
The highest recognition for organizations that set a true standard in leadership, culture, and employee experience.
The highest recognition for organizations that set a true standard in leadership, culture, and employee experience.
Grand Prix Employer
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The highest recognition for organizations that set a true standard in leadership, culture, and employee experience.
Grand Prix HR Service Supplier
The highest honor for HR service providers that redefine quality, reliability, and care in their field.
The highest honor for HR service providers that redefine quality, reliability, and care in their field.
Grand Prix HR Service Supplier
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The highest honor for HR service providers that redefine quality, reliability, and care in their field.
Employers – by industry
For leading employers who set benchmarks for culture, growth, and employee experience within their sectors.
For leading employers who set benchmarks for culture, growth, and employee experience within their sectors.
Employers – by industry
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For leading employers who set benchmarks for culture, growth, and employee experience within their sectors.
Employer – Accounting
For organizations that value precision, fairness, and steady professional growth while keeping people at the center of every number.
For organizations that value precision, fairness, and steady professional growth while keeping people at the center of every number.
Employer – Accounting
PREMIUM
For organizations that value precision, fairness, and steady professional growth while keeping people at the center of every number.
Employer – Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations
For creative companies that build strong teams, nurture talent, and make work feel alive with ideas and collaboration.
For creative companies that build strong teams, nurture talent, and make work feel alive with ideas and collaboration.
Employer – Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations
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For creative companies that build strong teams, nurture talent, and make work feel alive with ideas and collaboration.
Employer – Agriculture
Recognizing employers that cultivate sustainability, technology, and respect for the people who make growth possible.
Recognizing employers that cultivate sustainability, technology, and respect for the people who make growth possible.
Employer – Agriculture
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Recognizing employers that cultivate sustainability, technology, and respect for the people who make growth possible.
Employer – Apparel & Fashion
Employers bringing creativity and inclusion to fashion while supporting responsible production and positive work culture.
Employers bringing creativity and inclusion to fashion while supporting responsible production and positive work culture.
Employer – Apparel & Fashion
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Employers bringing creativity and inclusion to fashion while supporting responsible production and positive work culture.
Employer – Automotive
Employers driving innovation in the automotive industry with a focus on safety, progress, and their team.
Employers driving innovation in the automotive industry with a focus on safety, progress, and their team.
Employer – Automotive
PREMIUM
Employers driving innovation in the automotive industry with a focus on safety, progress, and their team.
Employer – Aviation & Aerospace
Companies in the Aviation & Aerospace sector that provide exceptional environments for growth, ethics, and performance.
Companies in the Aviation & Aerospace sector that provide exceptional environments for growth, ethics, and performance.
Employer – Aviation & Aerospace
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Companies in the Aviation & Aerospace sector that provide exceptional environments for growth, ethics, and performance.
Employer – Banking
For employers who build trust through integrity, opportunity, and a commitment to community.
For employers who build trust through integrity, opportunity, and a commitment to community.
Employer – Banking
PREMIUM
For employers who build trust through integrity, opportunity, and a commitment to community.
Employer – Biotechnology
Forward-thinking biotech organizations known for innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Forward-thinking biotech organizations known for innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Employer – Biotechnology
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Forward-thinking biotech organizations known for innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Employer – Business & Professional Service
Business & Professional Service employers creating supportive, growth-oriented workplaces where professionalism and ethics go hand in hand.
Business & Professional Service employers creating supportive, growth-oriented workplaces where professionalism and ethics go hand in hand.
Employer – Business & Professional Service
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Business & Professional Service employers creating supportive, growth-oriented workplaces where professionalism and ethics go hand in hand.
Employer – Capital Markets
Financial institutions recognized for their leadership, integrity, and professional growth opportunities.
Financial institutions recognized for their leadership, integrity, and professional growth opportunities.
Employer – Capital Markets
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Financial institutions recognized for their leadership, integrity, and professional growth opportunities.
Employer – Civic & Social Organization
Civic & Social organizations driving community impact with workplaces built on compassion, fairness, and shared purpose.
Civic & Social organizations driving community impact with workplaces built on compassion, fairness, and shared purpose.
Employer – Civic & Social Organization
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Civic & Social organizations driving community impact with workplaces built on compassion, fairness, and shared purpose.
Employer – Clean Technology
For organizations using technology and teamwork to make progress sustainable and responsible.
For organizations using technology and teamwork to make progress sustainable and responsible.
Employer – Clean Technology
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For organizations using technology and teamwork to make progress sustainable and responsible.
Employer – Computer Hardware
For companies pushing technology forward through smart engineering, teamwork, and steady professional growth.
For companies pushing technology forward through smart engineering, teamwork, and steady professional growth.
Employer – Computer Hardware
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For companies pushing technology forward through smart engineering, teamwork, and steady professional growth.
Employer – Computer Software
Recognizing software companies where people grow fast, think freely, and build technology that actually matters.
Recognizing software companies where people grow fast, think freely, and build technology that actually matters.
Employer – Computer Software
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Recognizing software companies where people grow fast, think freely, and build technology that actually matters.
Employer – Construction, Engineering & Manufacturing Employer
For employers who value safety, skill, and teamwork in building complex projects and strong careers.
For employers who value safety, skill, and teamwork in building complex projects and strong careers.
Employer – Construction, Engineering & Manufacturing Employer
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For employers who value safety, skill, and teamwork in building complex projects and strong careers.
Employer – Consumer Electronics
Celebrating employers who design and deliver the devices that shape daily life and create workplaces where curiosity thrives.
Celebrating employers who design and deliver the devices that shape daily life and create workplaces where curiosity thrives.
Employer – Consumer Electronics
PREMIUM
Celebrating employers who design and deliver the devices that shape daily life and create workplaces where curiosity thrives.
Employer – CRO
Contract research organizations leading through integrity, scientific rigor, and a commitment to shared progress.
Contract research organizations leading through integrity, scientific rigor, and a commitment to shared progress.
Employer – CRO
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Contract research organizations leading through integrity, scientific rigor, and a commitment to shared progress.
Employer – Education
Honoring institutions that make learning fulfilling for students, teachers, and everyone who helps knowledge grow.
Honoring institutions that make learning fulfilling for students, teachers, and everyone who helps knowledge grow.
Employer – Education
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Honoring institutions that make learning fulfilling for students, teachers, and everyone who helps knowledge grow.
Employer – Engineering
Recognizing companies built on technical skill, creativity, and a culture of safety and problem-solving.
Recognizing companies built on technical skill, creativity, and a culture of safety and problem-solving.
Employer – Engineering
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Recognizing companies built on technical skill, creativity, and a culture of safety and problem-solving.
Employer – Entertainment
For companies where creativity, diversity, and collaboration come together to shape the stories and experiences people love.
For companies where creativity, diversity, and collaboration come together to shape the stories and experiences people love.
Employer – Entertainment
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For companies where creativity, diversity, and collaboration come together to shape the stories and experiences people love.
Employer – Finance
Employers driving growth through integrity, leadership, and inclusion in financial services.
Employers driving growth through integrity, leadership, and inclusion in financial services.
Employer – Finance
PREMIUM
Employers driving growth through integrity, leadership, and inclusion in financial services.
Employer – Fintech
For companies blending technology and finance in workplaces where ideas move quickly and people grow with them.
For companies blending technology and finance in workplaces where ideas move quickly and people grow with them.
Employer – Fintech
PREMIUM
For companies blending technology and finance in workplaces where ideas move quickly and people grow with them.
Employer – Fitness & Wellness
Honoring organizations that bring energy, balance, and personal growth to every part of their workplace culture.
Honoring organizations that bring energy, balance, and personal growth to every part of their workplace culture.
Employer – Fitness & Wellness
PREMIUM
Honoring organizations that bring energy, balance, and personal growth to every part of their workplace culture.
Employer – FMCG
Recognizing fast-moving companies that move fast, think sustainably, and give people the space to grow and lead.
Recognizing fast-moving companies that move fast, think sustainably, and give people the space to grow and lead.
Employer – FMCG
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Recognizing fast-moving companies that move fast, think sustainably, and give people the space to grow and lead.
Employer – Food & Beverage
Food & Beverage employers who combine quality, care, and teamwork to create great products and welcoming workplaces.
Food & Beverage employers who combine quality, care, and teamwork to create great products and welcoming workplaces.
Employer – Food & Beverage
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Food & Beverage employers who combine quality, care, and teamwork to create great products and welcoming workplaces.
Employer – Games / Games-Related
Studios that make creativity, teamwork, and inclusion part of the daily game plan.
Studios that make creativity, teamwork, and inclusion part of the daily game plan.
Employer – Games / Games-Related
PREMIUM
Studios that make creativity, teamwork, and inclusion part of the daily game plan.
Employer – Health Product & Service
Health Product & Service employers improving lives through innovation, empathy, and a genuine commitment to employee care.
Health Product & Service employers improving lives through innovation, empathy, and a genuine commitment to employee care.
Employer – Health Product & Service
PREMIUM
Health Product & Service employers improving lives through innovation, empathy, and a genuine commitment to employee care.
Employer – Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure
Employers who make hospitality a people business, valuing both their teams and the guests they welcome.
Employers who make hospitality a people business, valuing both their teams and the guests they welcome.
Employer – Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure
PREMIUM
Employers who make hospitality a people business, valuing both their teams and the guests they welcome.
Employer – Human Resources
Honoring HR teams and organizations that put people first through fairness, creativity, and everyday care.
Honoring HR teams and organizations that put people first through fairness, creativity, and everyday care.
Employer – Human Resources
PREMIUM
Honoring HR teams and organizations that put people first through fairness, creativity, and everyday care.
Employer – Insurance
Recognizing insurance companies that balance trust, stability, and professional growth to create rewarding careers.
Recognizing insurance companies that balance trust, stability, and professional growth to create rewarding careers.
Employer – Insurance
PREMIUM
Recognizing insurance companies that balance trust, stability, and professional growth to create rewarding careers.
Employer – IT
Celebrating employers that make technology work smarter through collaboration, workplace flexibility, and curiosity.
Celebrating employers that make technology work smarter through collaboration, workplace flexibility, and curiosity.
Employer – IT
PREMIUM
Celebrating employers that make technology work smarter through collaboration, workplace flexibility, and curiosity.
Employer – Law & Legal Service
Legal organizations upholding ethics and teamwork, helping people grow through collaboration and mentorship.
Legal organizations upholding ethics and teamwork, helping people grow through collaboration and mentorship.
Employer – Law & Legal Service
PREMIUM
Legal organizations upholding ethics and teamwork, helping people grow through collaboration and mentorship.
Employer – Luxury Goods
Recognizing brands that honor craft, heritage, and respect for people while fostering growth and pride in every role.
Recognizing brands that honor craft, heritage, and respect for people while fostering growth and pride in every role.
Employer – Luxury Goods
PREMIUM
Recognizing brands that honor craft, heritage, and respect for people while fostering growth and pride in every role.
Employer – Manufacturing
Celebrating manufacturing employers who combine precision, innovation, and people-first practices to build lasting success.
Celebrating manufacturing employers who combine precision, innovation, and people-first practices to build lasting success.
Employer – Manufacturing
PREMIUM
Celebrating manufacturing employers who combine precision, innovation, and people-first practices to build lasting success.
Employer – Materials & Supplies
Employers building safe, efficient, and supportive workplaces in production and supply sectors.
Employers building safe, efficient, and supportive workplaces in production and supply sectors.
Employer – Materials & Supplies
PREMIUM
Employers building safe, efficient, and supportive workplaces in production and supply sectors.
Employer – Medical Practice & Devices
Companies leading the way in healthcare innovation while supporting quality care and a healthy, motivated team.
Companies leading the way in healthcare innovation while supporting quality care and a healthy, motivated team.
Employer – Medical Practice & Devices
PREMIUM
Companies leading the way in healthcare innovation while supporting quality care and a healthy, motivated team.
Employer – Oil & Energy
Energy companies working toward safer, cleaner, and more sustainable operations while taking care of their team.
Energy companies working toward safer, cleaner, and more sustainable operations while taking care of their team.
Employer – Oil & Energy
PREMIUM
Energy companies working toward safer, cleaner, and more sustainable operations while taking care of their team.
Employer – Pharmaceuticals
Pharma companies that combine ethics, innovation, and a strong workplace culture where people thrive.
Pharma companies that combine ethics, innovation, and a strong workplace culture where people thrive.
Employer – Pharmaceuticals
PREMIUM
Pharma companies that combine ethics, innovation, and a strong workplace culture where people thrive.
Employer – Telecommunication
For companies that connect people and ideas through technology, collaboration, and shared purpose.
For companies that connect people and ideas through technology, collaboration, and shared purpose.
Employer – Telecommunication
PREMIUM
For companies that connect people and ideas through technology, collaboration, and shared purpose.
Employer – Tobacco
Organizations leading change in the tobacco industry through responsibility, transparency, and care for their teams.
Organizations leading change in the tobacco industry through responsibility, transparency, and care for their teams.
Employer – Tobacco
PREMIUM
Organizations leading change in the tobacco industry through responsibility, transparency, and care for their teams.
Employer – Transport and Logistics
Recognizing employers who keep the world moving through efficiency, coordination, and care for their team.
Recognizing employers who keep the world moving through efficiency, coordination, and care for their team.
Employer – Transport and Logistics
PREMIUM
Recognizing employers who keep the world moving through efficiency, coordination, and care for their team.
Employer – Wine and Spirits
Recognizing brands that balance innovation and positive workplace culture in the Wine & Spirits sector.
Recognizing brands that balance innovation and positive workplace culture in the Wine & Spirits sector.
Employer – Wine and Spirits
PREMIUM
Recognizing brands that balance innovation and positive workplace culture in the Wine & Spirits sector.
Employers – By type
Recognizing organizations of all sizes and structures that demonstrate exceptional commitment to their team, purpose, and performance.
Recognizing organizations of all sizes and structures that demonstrate exceptional commitment to their team, purpose, and performance.
Employers – By type
PREMIUM
Recognizing organizations of all sizes and structures that demonstrate exceptional commitment to their team, purpose, and performance.
Employer – Small Business
Celebrating small teams that think big, stay close-knit, and build workplaces where creativity and care go hand in hand.
Celebrating small teams that think big, stay close-knit, and build workplaces where creativity and care go hand in hand.
Employer – Small Business
PREMIUM
Celebrating small teams that think big, stay close-knit, and build workplaces where creativity and care go hand in hand.
Employer – Medium Business
Recognizing mid-sized businesses that balance growth and agility by fostering high employee engagement and stimulating career progress.
Recognizing mid-sized businesses that balance growth and agility by fostering high employee engagement and stimulating career progress.
Employer – Medium Business
PREMIUM
Recognizing mid-sized businesses that balance growth and agility by fostering high employee engagement and stimulating career progress.
Employer – Large Business
Honoring large-scale businesses that offer stability, opportunity, and a workplace culture that keeps evolving.
Honoring large-scale businesses that offer stability, opportunity, and a workplace culture that keeps evolving.
Employer – Large Business
PREMIUM
Honoring large-scale businesses that offer stability, opportunity, and a workplace culture that keeps evolving.
Employer – Corporation
Celebrating corporate organizations that bring structure, culture, and social responsibility together in a way that helps people do their best work.
Celebrating corporate organizations that bring structure, culture, and social responsibility together in a way that helps people do their best work.
Employer – Corporation
PREMIUM
Celebrating corporate organizations that bring structure, culture, and social responsibility together in a way that helps people do their best work.
Employer – Multicultural
Celebrating organizations that bring together people from many backgrounds and build real inclusion into everyday work.
Celebrating organizations that bring together people from many backgrounds and build real inclusion into everyday work.
Employer – Multicultural
PREMIUM
Celebrating organizations that bring together people from many backgrounds and build real inclusion into everyday work.
Employer – NGO
For nonprofits that lead with purpose, value their people, and make mission-driven work sustainable and rewarding
For nonprofits that lead with purpose, value their people, and make mission-driven work sustainable and rewarding
Employer – NGO
PREMIUM
For nonprofits that lead with purpose, value their people, and make mission-driven work sustainable and rewarding
Employer – Outsourcing
Celebrating service providers who build trust through teamwork, reliability, and clear communication across every project.
Celebrating service providers who build trust through teamwork, reliability, and clear communication across every project.
Employer – Outsourcing
PREMIUM
Celebrating service providers who build trust through teamwork, reliability, and clear communication across every project.
Employer – Public Sector
Recognizing public institutions that serve their communities with transparency, care, and respect for their workforce.
Recognizing public institutions that serve their communities with transparency, care, and respect for their workforce.
Employer – Public Sector
PREMIUM
Recognizing public institutions that serve their communities with transparency, care, and respect for their workforce.
Employer – Remote work
For companies that make distributed teams feel united through smart collaboration and a strong digital culture.
For companies that make distributed teams feel united through smart collaboration and a strong digital culture.
Employer – Remote work
PREMIUM
For companies that make distributed teams feel united through smart collaboration and a strong digital culture.
Employer – Startup
For startups in their early stages, built on bold ideas, smart risk-taking, and a fast-paced culture that helps people grow with the business.
For startups in their early stages, built on bold ideas, smart risk-taking, and a fast-paced culture that helps people grow with the business.
Employer – Startup
PREMIUM
For startups in their early stages, built on bold ideas, smart risk-taking, and a fast-paced culture that helps people grow with the business.
HR Services & Suppliers
Celebrating exceptional HR partners and providers whose expertise and innovation elevate workforce strategies and business success.
Celebrating exceptional HR partners and providers whose expertise and innovation elevate workforce strategies and business success.
HR Services & Suppliers
PREMIUM
Celebrating exceptional HR partners and providers whose expertise and innovation elevate workforce strategies and business success.
Career Development Service
Celebrating services that guide people through learning, growth, and meaningful career progress.
Celebrating services that guide people through learning, growth, and meaningful career progress.
Career Development Service
PREMIUM
Celebrating services that guide people through learning, growth, and meaningful career progress.
Daycare at Work Supplier
Recognizing services that make work and family life easier to balance through reliable, on-site childcare options.
Recognizing services that make work and family life easier to balance through reliable, on-site childcare options.
Daycare at Work Supplier
PREMIUM
Recognizing services that make work and family life easier to balance through reliable, on-site childcare options.
Employee Insurance Supplier
For insurers who design workforce coverage that fits real needs, from health and safety to peace of mind.
For insurers who design workforce coverage that fits real needs, from health and safety to peace of mind.
Employee Insurance Supplier
PREMIUM
For insurers who design workforce coverage that fits real needs, from health and safety to peace of mind.
HR Consulting Service
Recognizing advisory firms that help organizations shape practical, people-centered HR strategies that work in real life.
Recognizing advisory firms that help organizations shape practical, people-centered HR strategies that work in real life.
HR Consulting Service
PREMIUM
Recognizing advisory firms that help organizations shape practical, people-centered HR strategies that work in real life.
HR Management Service
For companies that deliver complete HR solutions, from compliance and engagement to day-to-day people operations.
For companies that deliver complete HR solutions, from compliance and engagement to day-to-day people operations.
HR Management Service
PREMIUM
For companies that deliver complete HR solutions, from compliance and engagement to day-to-day people operations.
HR Software Supplier
Recognizing developers of digital tools that make managing teams simpler, faster, and more connected.
Recognizing developers of digital tools that make managing teams simpler, faster, and more connected.
HR Software Supplier
PREMIUM
Recognizing developers of digital tools that make managing teams simpler, faster, and more connected.
Job Board Service
For platforms that bring employers and job seekers together with clarity, fairness, and smart matching features.
For platforms that bring employers and job seekers together with clarity, fairness, and smart matching features.
Job Board Service
PREMIUM
For platforms that bring employers and job seekers together with clarity, fairness, and smart matching features.
Payroll Software Supplier
For providers of payroll systems that keep things accurate, efficient, and easy for teams to trust.
For providers of payroll systems that keep things accurate, efficient, and easy for teams to trust.
Payroll Software Supplier
PREMIUM
For providers of payroll systems that keep things accurate, efficient, and easy for teams to trust.
Social Benefits Supplier
Celebrating providers that help companies offer flexible, personalized benefits — from wellness and insurance to everyday perks.
Celebrating providers that help companies offer flexible, personalized benefits — from wellness and insurance to everyday perks.
Social Benefits Supplier
PREMIUM
Celebrating providers that help companies offer flexible, personalized benefits — from wellness and insurance to everyday perks.
Talent Acquisition Supplier
For partners who raise the bar in recruitment through smart tools, clear insight, and genuine understanding of the market.
For partners who raise the bar in recruitment through smart tools, clear insight, and genuine understanding of the market.
Talent Acquisition Supplier
PREMIUM
For partners who raise the bar in recruitment through smart tools, clear insight, and genuine understanding of the market.
People's Choice Employers & HR Services
Voted by the public, honoring employers and HR partners that inspire admiration, trust, and loyalty through their impact on people.
Voted by the public, honoring employers and HR partners that inspire admiration, trust, and loyalty through their impact on people.
People's Choice Employers & HR Services
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Voted by the public, honoring employers and HR partners that inspire admiration, trust, and loyalty through their impact on people.
People's Choice Employer
Chosen by the public, this award celebrates companies admired for their fairness, values, and workplace spirit.
Chosen by the public, this award celebrates companies admired for their fairness, values, and workplace spirit.
People's Choice Employer
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Chosen by the public, this award celebrates companies admired for their fairness, values, and workplace spirit.
People's Choice HR Service Supplier
Publicly chosen HR providers who earn lasting trust through great service and real results.
Publicly chosen HR providers who earn lasting trust through great service and real results.
People's Choice HR Service Supplier
PREMIUM
Publicly chosen HR providers who earn lasting trust through great service and real results.
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Grand Prix HR Strategies
The highest honor for strategic HR excellence, celebrating transformative frameworks that build resilient, inclusive, and thriving workplaces.
The highest honor for strategic HR excellence, celebrating transformative frameworks that build resilient, inclusive, and thriving workplaces.
Grand Prix HR Strategies
PREMIUM
The highest honor for strategic HR excellence, celebrating transformative frameworks that build resilient, inclusive, and thriving workplaces.
Grand Prix HR Strategy
The highest recognition for effective HR strategies that align people, purpose, and performance.
The highest recognition for effective HR strategies that align people, purpose, and performance.
Grand Prix HR Strategy
PREMIUM
The highest recognition for effective HR strategies that align people, purpose, and performance.
General HR Strategies
For holistic HR approaches that strengthen engagement, performance, and organizational growth through innovation and care.
For holistic HR approaches that strengthen engagement, performance, and organizational growth through innovation and care.
General HR Strategies
PREMIUM
For holistic HR approaches that strengthen engagement, performance, and organizational growth through innovation and care.
Change Management Strategy
For approaches that guide people smoothly and confidently through organizational change.
For approaches that guide people smoothly and confidently through organizational change.
Change Management Strategy
PREMIUM
For approaches that guide people smoothly and confidently through organizational change.
Future of Work Strategy
Recognizing forward-thinking strategies that prepare organizations for evolving roles, tools, and ways of working.
Recognizing forward-thinking strategies that prepare organizations for evolving roles, tools, and ways of working.
Future of Work Strategy
PREMIUM
Recognizing forward-thinking strategies that prepare organizations for evolving roles, tools, and ways of working.
HR Digital Transformation Strategy
Celebrating strategies that modernize HR through digital tools, improving both efficiency and employee experience.
Celebrating strategies that modernize HR through digital tools, improving both efficiency and employee experience.
HR Digital Transformation Strategy
PREMIUM
Celebrating strategies that modernize HR through digital tools, improving both efficiency and employee experience.
People Analytics Strategy
Recognizing data-driven strategies that turn workforce information into smarter organizational decisions.
Recognizing data-driven strategies that turn workforce information into smarter organizational decisions.
People Analytics Strategy
PREMIUM
Recognizing data-driven strategies that turn workforce information into smarter organizational decisions.
People Evaluation Strategy
Recognizing fair, data-informed systems for assessing performance and supporting growth.
Recognizing fair, data-informed systems for assessing performance and supporting growth.
People Evaluation Strategy
PREMIUM
Recognizing fair, data-informed systems for assessing performance and supporting growth.
Remote Workforce Strategy
For strategies that help distributed teams stay productive, compliant, and connected across locations.
For strategies that help distributed teams stay productive, compliant, and connected across locations.
Remote Workforce Strategy
PREMIUM
For strategies that help distributed teams stay productive, compliant, and connected across locations.
Succession Planning Strategy
For programs that ensure leadership continuity and readiness when roles or responsibilities shift.
For programs that ensure leadership continuity and readiness when roles or responsibilities shift.
Succession Planning Strategy
PREMIUM
For programs that ensure leadership continuity and readiness when roles or responsibilities shift.
Learning & Development Strategies
Celebrating strategies that enable and foster continuous learning, skills growth, and career advancement across all employee levels.
Celebrating strategies that enable and foster continuous learning, skills growth, and career advancement across all employee levels.
Learning & Development Strategies
PREMIUM
Celebrating strategies that enable and foster continuous learning, skills growth, and career advancement across all employee levels.
Career Mobility Strategy
For strategies that help employees build new skills and move into fresh roles or opportunities, whether through promotions, lateral shifts, or transitions across departments or industries.
For strategies that help employees build new skills and move into fresh roles or opportunities, whether through promotions, lateral shifts, or transitions across departments or industries.
Career Mobility Strategy
PREMIUM
For strategies that help employees build new skills and move into fresh roles or opportunities, whether through promotions, lateral shifts, or transitions across departments or industries.
Corporate E-Learning Strategy
Celebrating initiatives that build effective digital learning environments and improve training accessibility.
Celebrating initiatives that build effective digital learning environments and improve training accessibility.
Corporate E-Learning Strategy
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Celebrating initiatives that build effective digital learning environments and improve training accessibility.
Early Careers Strategy
Recognizing programs that guide young professionals through structured development and mentorship.
Recognizing programs that guide young professionals through structured development and mentorship.
Early Careers Strategy
PREMIUM
Recognizing programs that guide young professionals through structured development and mentorship.
Identification of Training Needs Strategy
For approaches that use data and feedback to ensure training aligns with real organizational needs.
For approaches that use data and feedback to ensure training aligns with real organizational needs.
Identification of Training Needs Strategy
PREMIUM
For approaches that use data and feedback to ensure training aligns with real organizational needs.
Learning & Development Strategy
For comprehensive plans that encourage continuous learning, reskilling, and professional grow
For comprehensive plans that encourage continuous learning, reskilling, and professional grow
Learning & Development Strategy
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For comprehensive plans that encourage continuous learning, reskilling, and professional grow
Learning Digitalization Strategy
For strategies that bring technology into learning to make education more engaging and scalable.
For strategies that bring technology into learning to make education more engaging and scalable.
Learning Digitalization Strategy
PREMIUM
For strategies that bring technology into learning to make education more engaging and scalable.
Technical Skills Development Strategy
Recognizing strategies that strengthen essential and specialized technical skills across teams.
Recognizing strategies that strengthen essential and specialized technical skills across teams.
Technical Skills Development Strategy
PREMIUM
Recognizing strategies that strengthen essential and specialized technical skills across teams.
Culture Development Strategies
Celebrating initiatives that nurture positive, values-driven cultures where employees across all levels feel included, empowered, and connected.
Celebrating initiatives that nurture positive, values-driven cultures where employees across all levels feel included, empowered, and connected.
Culture Development Strategies
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Celebrating initiatives that nurture positive, values-driven cultures where employees across all levels feel included, empowered, and connected.
Employee Empowerment Strategy
Celebrating strategies that give employees real voice, autonomy, and ownership in their work.
Celebrating strategies that give employees real voice, autonomy, and ownership in their work.
Employee Empowerment Strategy
PREMIUM
Celebrating strategies that give employees real voice, autonomy, and ownership in their work.
Employee Engagement Strategy
Recognizing strategies that strengthen motivation, connection, and pride in the workplace.
Recognizing strategies that strengthen motivation, connection, and pride in the workplace.
Employee Engagement Strategy
PREMIUM
Recognizing strategies that strengthen motivation, connection, and pride in the workplace.
Inspiring Workplace Strategy
For initiatives that create environments where people feel energized, included, and proud to contribute.
For initiatives that create environments where people feel energized, included, and proud to contribute.
Inspiring Workplace Strategy
PREMIUM
For initiatives that create environments where people feel energized, included, and proud to contribute.
Mental Health Support Strategy
For programs that promote openness, care, and lasting support for mental well-being at work.
For programs that promote openness, care, and lasting support for mental well-being at work.
Mental Health Support Strategy
PREMIUM
For programs that promote openness, care, and lasting support for mental well-being at work.
Remote/Hybrid Work Strategy
Recognizing strategies that help distributed teams stay productive, connected, and genuinely engaged.
Recognizing strategies that help distributed teams stay productive, connected, and genuinely engaged.
Remote/Hybrid Work Strategy
PREMIUM
Recognizing strategies that help distributed teams stay productive, connected, and genuinely engaged.
Teambuilding Strategy
For approaches that build trust, improve communication, and bring people together through collaboration.
For approaches that build trust, improve communication, and bring people together through collaboration.
Teambuilding Strategy
PREMIUM
For approaches that build trust, improve communication, and bring people together through collaboration.
Work-life balance strategy
Celebrating strategies that support flexibility, well-being, and a healthy rhythm between work and life.
Celebrating strategies that support flexibility, well-being, and a healthy rhythm between work and life.
Work-life balance strategy
PREMIUM
Celebrating strategies that support flexibility, well-being, and a healthy rhythm between work and life.
Employer Brand Strategies
Recognizing forward-thinking approaches to employer branding that attract, engage, and retain exceptional talent.
Recognizing forward-thinking approaches to employer branding that attract, engage, and retain exceptional talent.
Employer Brand Strategies
PREMIUM
Recognizing forward-thinking approaches to employer branding that attract, engage, and retain exceptional talent.
Employee Benefits Strategy
Celebrating thoughtful benefits that genuinely improve employees’ quality of life and work.
Celebrating thoughtful benefits that genuinely improve employees’ quality of life and work.
Employee Benefits Strategy
PREMIUM
Celebrating thoughtful benefits that genuinely improve employees’ quality of life and work.
Employee Feedback & Voice Strategy
Recognizing systems that invite open feedback and give employees real influence in shaping company culture.
Recognizing systems that invite open feedback and give employees real influence in shaping company culture.
Employee Feedback & Voice Strategy
PREMIUM
Recognizing systems that invite open feedback and give employees real influence in shaping company culture.
Employer Branding Strategy
Recognizing strategies that clearly define and communicate what makes an organization a great place to work.
Recognizing strategies that clearly define and communicate what makes an organization a great place to work.
Employer Branding Strategy
PREMIUM
Recognizing strategies that clearly define and communicate what makes an organization a great place to work.
Onboarding Experience Strategy
For structured, welcoming approaches that make joining a company smooth, informative, and engaging.
For structured, welcoming approaches that make joining a company smooth, informative, and engaging.
Onboarding Experience Strategy
PREMIUM
For structured, welcoming approaches that make joining a company smooth, informative, and engaging.
Talent Acquisition Strategy
For strategies that attract the right people through authentic communication and smart, data-informed hiring.
For strategies that attract the right people through authentic communication and smart, data-informed hiring.
Talent Acquisition Strategy
PREMIUM
For strategies that attract the right people through authentic communication and smart, data-informed hiring.
Talent Retention Strategy
For programs designed to keep top talent engaged, motivated, and growing over time.
For programs designed to keep top talent engaged, motivated, and growing over time.
Talent Retention Strategy
PREMIUM
For programs designed to keep top talent engaged, motivated, and growing over time.
Workers' Rights Strategy
For strategies that uphold fairness, inclusion, and ethical labor practices across all levels of the workplace.
For strategies that uphold fairness, inclusion, and ethical labor practices across all levels of the workplace.
Workers' Rights Strategy
PREMIUM
For strategies that uphold fairness, inclusion, and ethical labor practices across all levels of the workplace.
People's Choice HR Strategies
Honoring HR strategies that resonate with employees and exemplify genuine care and inspiration, as determined by the public.
Honoring HR strategies that resonate with employees and exemplify genuine care and inspiration, as determined by the public.
People's Choice HR Strategies
PREMIUM
Honoring HR strategies that resonate with employees and exemplify genuine care and inspiration, as determined by the public.
People's Choice HR Strategy
As determined by the public, this award honors HR strategies that earn admiration for uniting people, purpose, and performance.
As determined by the public, this award honors HR strategies that earn admiration for uniting people, purpose, and performance.
People's Choice HR Strategy
PREMIUM
As determined by the public, this award honors HR strategies that earn admiration for uniting people, purpose, and performance.
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Grand Prix HR Projects & Campaigns
The highest honor for HR innovation, reserved for projects that redefine the future of work through creativity and measurable impact.
The highest honor for HR innovation, reserved for projects that redefine the future of work through creativity and measurable impact.
Grand Prix HR Projects & Campaigns
PREMIUM
The highest honor for HR innovation, reserved for projects that redefine the future of work through creativity and measurable impact.
Grand Prix HR Project
The highest recognition for HR innovation, honoring projects that reshape how organizations support, develop, and connect with their people through measurable impact and creativity.
The highest recognition for HR innovation, honoring projects that reshape how organizations support, develop, and connect with their people through measurable impact and creativity.
Grand Prix HR Project
PREMIUM
The highest recognition for HR innovation, honoring projects that reshape how organizations support, develop, and connect with their people through measurable impact and creativity.
HR Management Projects
Recognizing effective and innovative projects that optimize HR operations, processes, and outcomes.
Recognizing effective and innovative projects that optimize HR operations, processes, and outcomes.
HR Management Projects
PREMIUM
Recognizing effective and innovative projects that optimize HR operations, processes, and outcomes.
Data-Based HR Program
For projects that use analytics to guide better decisions about people and performance.
For projects that use analytics to guide better decisions about people and performance.
Data-Based HR Program
PREMIUM
For projects that use analytics to guide better decisions about people and performance.
Employee Incentive Program
For programs that recognize effort and motivate performance through thoughtful rewards and appreciation.
For programs that recognize effort and motivate performance through thoughtful rewards and appreciation.
Employee Incentive Program
PREMIUM
For programs that recognize effort and motivate performance through thoughtful rewards and appreciation.
Employee Referral Program
Celebrating programs that engage employees in attracting great talent and strengthening recruitment success.
Celebrating programs that engage employees in attracting great talent and strengthening recruitment success.
Employee Referral Program
PREMIUM
Celebrating programs that engage employees in attracting great talent and strengthening recruitment success.
HR Tech Implementation Program
Recognizing initiatives that bring new technologies into HR operations to make work simpler and more efficient.
Recognizing initiatives that bring new technologies into HR operations to make work simpler and more efficient.
HR Tech Implementation Program
PREMIUM
Recognizing initiatives that bring new technologies into HR operations to make work simpler and more efficient.
Promoting Teamwork Program
For initiatives that build trust, communication, and genuine collaboration across teams.
For initiatives that build trust, communication, and genuine collaboration across teams.
Promoting Teamwork Program
PREMIUM
For initiatives that build trust, communication, and genuine collaboration across teams.
Remote Workforce Engagement Program
Recognizing projects that keep remote employees connected, motivated, and aligned with company goals.
Recognizing projects that keep remote employees connected, motivated, and aligned with company goals.
Remote Workforce Engagement Program
PREMIUM
Recognizing projects that keep remote employees connected, motivated, and aligned with company goals.
Innovative HR Projects
Honoring pioneering HR initiatives that introduce new models, tools, or practices for employee success.
Honoring pioneering HR initiatives that introduce new models, tools, or practices for employee success.
Innovative HR Projects
PREMIUM
Honoring pioneering HR initiatives that introduce new models, tools, or practices for employee success.
General HR Innovation
For breakthrough ideas that make HR more effective, efficient, and people-focused.
For breakthrough ideas that make HR more effective, efficient, and people-focused.
General HR Innovation
PREMIUM
For breakthrough ideas that make HR more effective, efficient, and people-focused.
HR Department Innovation
Recognizing departments that rethink how HR is structured and how it supports the wider organization.
Recognizing departments that rethink how HR is structured and how it supports the wider organization.
HR Department Innovation
PREMIUM
Recognizing departments that rethink how HR is structured and how it supports the wider organization.
HR Tech Innovation
For digital projects that transform how HR operates and enhance the employee experience.
For digital projects that transform how HR operates and enhance the employee experience.
HR Tech Innovation
PREMIUM
For digital projects that transform how HR operates and enhance the employee experience.
HRIS Innovation
For projects that improve how HR data is managed and used through smarter information systems.
For projects that improve how HR data is managed and used through smarter information systems.
HRIS Innovation
PREMIUM
For projects that improve how HR data is managed and used through smarter information systems.
Learning & Development Innovation
Recognizing approaches to learning that help people grow and build new skills.
Recognizing approaches to learning that help people grow and build new skills.
Learning & Development Innovation
PREMIUM
Recognizing approaches to learning that help people grow and build new skills.
LMS Innovation
Recognizing improvements in learning platforms that make education easier to deliver, track, and personalize.
Recognizing improvements in learning platforms that make education easier to deliver, track, and personalize.
LMS Innovation
PREMIUM
Recognizing improvements in learning platforms that make education easier to deliver, track, and personalize.
Onboarding Process Innovation
Recognizing creative approaches to learning that help people grow and build new skills.
Recognizing creative approaches to learning that help people grow and build new skills.
Onboarding Process Innovation
PREMIUM
Recognizing creative approaches to learning that help people grow and build new skills.
People Retention Process Innovation
Celebrating systems and programs that help keep employees loyal, satisfied, and growing in their careers.
Celebrating systems and programs that help keep employees loyal, satisfied, and growing in their careers.
People Retention Process Innovation
PREMIUM
Celebrating systems and programs that help keep employees loyal, satisfied, and growing in their careers.
Recruitment Innovation
For projects introducing new methods or tools that improve hiring quality, speed, and candidate experience.
For projects introducing new methods or tools that improve hiring quality, speed, and candidate experience.
Recruitment Innovation
PREMIUM
For projects introducing new methods or tools that improve hiring quality, speed, and candidate experience.
Self-Service HR Innovation
For tools or systems that give employees control over their HR information and day-to-day processes.
For tools or systems that give employees control over their HR information and day-to-day processes.
Self-Service HR Innovation
PREMIUM
For tools or systems that give employees control over their HR information and day-to-day processes.
Workplace Innovation
Celebrating initiatives that improve the physical or digital workspace, strengthening collaboration and comfort.
Celebrating initiatives that improve the physical or digital workspace, strengthening collaboration and comfort.
Workplace Innovation
PREMIUM
Celebrating initiatives that improve the physical or digital workspace, strengthening collaboration and comfort.
Impact Campaigns
Celebrating campaigns that advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and positive social change within the workplace.
Celebrating campaigns that advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and positive social change within the workplace.
Impact Campaigns
PREMIUM
Celebrating campaigns that advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and positive social change within the workplace.
Bias Mitigation Program
Recognizing initiatives that raise awareness and reduce unconscious bias through learning and practical action.
Recognizing initiatives that raise awareness and reduce unconscious bias through learning and practical action.
Bias Mitigation Program
PREMIUM
Recognizing initiatives that raise awareness and reduce unconscious bias through learning and practical action.
Confidential Support Program
Recognizing projects that provide safe, private, and accessible channels for employee support.
Recognizing projects that provide safe, private, and accessible channels for employee support.
Confidential Support Program
PREMIUM
Recognizing projects that provide safe, private, and accessible channels for employee support.
Culture of Belonging Program
For campaigns that create inclusive, connected cultures where everyone feels valued.
For campaigns that create inclusive, connected cultures where everyone feels valued.
Culture of Belonging Program
PREMIUM
For campaigns that create inclusive, connected cultures where everyone feels valued.
Disability Inclusion Program
Projects that improve accessibility, inclusion, and empowerment for employees with disabilities
Projects that improve accessibility, inclusion, and empowerment for employees with disabilities
Disability Inclusion Program
PREMIUM
Projects that improve accessibility, inclusion, and empowerment for employees with disabilities
Discussion & Understanding Program
For projects that open space for honest dialogue, empathy, and mutual understanding across the workplace.
For projects that open space for honest dialogue, empathy, and mutual understanding across the workplace.
Discussion & Understanding Program
PREMIUM
For projects that open space for honest dialogue, empathy, and mutual understanding across the workplace.
Employee Advocacy Program
Celebrating campaigns that encourage employees to share their company’s values and strengthen its reputation.
Celebrating campaigns that encourage employees to share their company’s values and strengthen its reputation.
Employee Advocacy Program
PREMIUM
Celebrating campaigns that encourage employees to share their company’s values and strengthen its reputation.
Employee Resource Groups Program
For programs that support networks and communities, helping employees connect through shared experiences and identity.
For programs that support networks and communities, helping employees connect through shared experiences and identity.
Employee Resource Groups Program
PREMIUM
For programs that support networks and communities, helping employees connect through shared experiences and identity.
Generational Inclusion Program
Recognizing initiatives that bridge generational differences and create workplaces where every age group can thrive.
Recognizing initiatives that bridge generational differences and create workplaces where every age group can thrive.
Generational Inclusion Program
PREMIUM
Recognizing initiatives that bridge generational differences and create workplaces where every age group can thrive.
LGBTQ+ Inclusion Program
For campaigns that promote visibility, respect, and equal opportunity for LGBTQ+ employees.
For campaigns that promote visibility, respect, and equal opportunity for LGBTQ+ employees.
LGBTQ+ Inclusion Program
PREMIUM
For campaigns that promote visibility, respect, and equal opportunity for LGBTQ+ employees.
Multicultural Inclusion Program
For programs that embrace diversity, encourage global perspectives, and build understanding across cultures.
For programs that embrace diversity, encourage global perspectives, and build understanding across cultures.
Multicultural Inclusion Program
PREMIUM
For programs that embrace diversity, encourage global perspectives, and build understanding across cultures.
Success Celebration Program
For programs that recognize achievement, build pride, and celebrate milestones together.
For programs that recognize achievement, build pride, and celebrate milestones together.
Success Celebration Program
PREMIUM
For programs that recognize achievement, build pride, and celebrate milestones together.
Working Parents Program
Celebrating initiatives that help parents balance work and family life through flexibility and real support.
Celebrating initiatives that help parents balance work and family life through flexibility and real support.
Working Parents Program
PREMIUM
Celebrating initiatives that help parents balance work and family life through flexibility and real support.
Training Projects
Recognizing targeted training programs that upskill, empower, and engage employees to achieve and maintain excellence.
Recognizing targeted training programs that upskill, empower, and engage employees to achieve and maintain excellence.
Training Projects
PREMIUM
Recognizing targeted training programs that upskill, empower, and engage employees to achieve and maintain excellence.
Compliance Training Program
For educational initiatives that build awareness of legal, ethical, and regulatory responsibilities.
For educational initiatives that build awareness of legal, ethical, and regulatory responsibilities.
Compliance Training Program
PREMIUM
For educational initiatives that build awareness of legal, ethical, and regulatory responsibilities.
Employee Reskilling Program
Celebrating training that prepares employees for new responsibilities or career paths through hands-on learning.
Celebrating training that prepares employees for new responsibilities or career paths through hands-on learning.
Employee Reskilling Program
PREMIUM
Celebrating training that prepares employees for new responsibilities or career paths through hands-on learning.
Employee Upskilling Program
For projects that help employees expand their current skills to stay ready for evolving roles.
For projects that help employees expand their current skills to stay ready for evolving roles.
Employee Upskilling Program
PREMIUM
For projects that help employees expand their current skills to stay ready for evolving roles.
Hybrid Training Program
Recognizing learning approaches that blend in-person and digital methods for flexible, effective training.
Recognizing learning approaches that blend in-person and digital methods for flexible, effective training.
Hybrid Training Program
PREMIUM
Recognizing learning approaches that blend in-person and digital methods for flexible, effective training.
Immersive Training Program
Recognizing programs that use simulations or interactive tools to create realistic, engaging learning experiences.
Recognizing programs that use simulations or interactive tools to create realistic, engaging learning experiences.
Immersive Training Program
PREMIUM
Recognizing programs that use simulations or interactive tools to create realistic, engaging learning experiences.
Internal Coaching Program
Recognizing coaching initiatives that build leadership, confidence, and professional growth from within the organization.
Recognizing coaching initiatives that build leadership, confidence, and professional growth from within the organization.
Internal Coaching Program
PREMIUM
Recognizing coaching initiatives that build leadership, confidence, and professional growth from within the organization.
Peer-to-Peer Training Program
For initiatives that encourage colleagues to share knowledge, learn from each other, and grow together.
For initiatives that encourage colleagues to share knowledge, learn from each other, and grow together.
Peer-to-Peer Training Program
PREMIUM
For initiatives that encourage colleagues to share knowledge, learn from each other, and grow together.
Soft Skills Training Program
Recognizing training that strengthens communication, teamwork, and emotional intelligence across all levels.
Recognizing training that strengthens communication, teamwork, and emotional intelligence across all levels.
Soft Skills Training Program
PREMIUM
Recognizing training that strengthens communication, teamwork, and emotional intelligence across all levels.
Work Safety Training Program
For programs that promote safety awareness, prevention, and responsible practices at work.
For programs that promote safety awareness, prevention, and responsible practices at work.
Work Safety Training Program
PREMIUM
For programs that promote safety awareness, prevention, and responsible practices at work.
Youth Development Program
For programs that help young professionals grow through mentorship, skill-building, and career guidance.
For programs that help young professionals grow through mentorship, skill-building, and career guidance.
Youth Development Program
PREMIUM
For programs that help young professionals grow through mentorship, skill-building, and career guidance.
People's Choice HR Projects & Campaigns
HR projects that inspire admiration and demonstrate meaningful people impact, as selected by the public.
HR projects that inspire admiration and demonstrate meaningful people impact, as selected by the public.
People's Choice HR Projects & Campaigns
PREMIUM
HR projects that inspire admiration and demonstrate meaningful people impact, as selected by the public.
People's Choice HR Project
HR projects that win the hearts of the public through authenticity, inspiration, and positive change in the workplace.
HR projects that win the hearts of the public through authenticity, inspiration, and positive change in the workplace.
People's Choice HR Project
PREMIUM
HR projects that win the hearts of the public through authenticity, inspiration, and positive change in the workplace.
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Grand Prix Organizational Leadership
Celebrating visionary leaders whose exceptional guidance transforms organizations into resilient, people-first environments with lasting cultural and performance impact.
Celebrating visionary leaders whose exceptional guidance transforms organizations into resilient, people-first environments with lasting cultural and performance impact.
Grand Prix Organizational Leadership
PREMIUM
Celebrating visionary leaders whose exceptional guidance transforms organizations into resilient, people-first environments with lasting cultural and performance impact.
Grand Prix Organizational Leadership
The highest honor for leaders who provide clear vision, build trust, and guide people and organizations with authenticity and purpose.
The highest honor for leaders who provide clear vision, build trust, and guide people and organizations with authenticity and purpose.
Grand Prix Organizational Leadership
PREMIUM
The highest honor for leaders who provide clear vision, build trust, and guide people and organizations with authenticity and purpose.
Grand Prix Team Collaboration
The highest recognition for successful teams that achieve exceptional results through effective collaboration, inclusion, and shared direction.
The highest recognition for successful teams that achieve exceptional results through effective collaboration, inclusion, and shared direction.
Grand Prix Team Collaboration
PREMIUM
The highest recognition for successful teams that achieve exceptional results through effective collaboration, inclusion, and shared direction.
HR Management Excellence
Recognizing outstanding leadership in managing people, processes, and change with impact and integrity.
Recognizing outstanding leadership in managing people, processes, and change with impact and integrity.
HR Management Excellence
PREMIUM
Recognizing outstanding leadership in managing people, processes, and change with impact and integrity.
Global Head of HR
Recognizing executives responsible for leading HR across international operations and ensuring consistency in culture and performance worldwide.
Recognizing executives responsible for leading HR across international operations and ensuring consistency in culture and performance worldwide.
Global Head of HR
PREMIUM
Recognizing executives responsible for leading HR across international operations and ensuring consistency in culture and performance worldwide.
Regional Head of HR
For senior leaders who oversee HR across multiple locations, adapting strategy to fit regional needs and priorities.
For senior leaders who oversee HR across multiple locations, adapting strategy to fit regional needs and priorities.
Regional Head of HR
PREMIUM
For senior leaders who oversee HR across multiple locations, adapting strategy to fit regional needs and priorities.
HR Executive
For senior HR leaders who shape vision, guide transformation, and set the standard for effective people management.
For senior HR leaders who shape vision, guide transformation, and set the standard for effective people management.
HR Executive
PREMIUM
For senior HR leaders who shape vision, guide transformation, and set the standard for effective people management.
HR Business Partner
For HR professionals who work closely with business leaders to align people strategies with organizational goals, acting as trusted consultants and strategic advisors.
For HR professionals who work closely with business leaders to align people strategies with organizational goals, acting as trusted consultants and strategic advisors.
HR Business Partner
PREMIUM
For HR professionals who work closely with business leaders to align people strategies with organizational goals, acting as trusted consultants and strategic advisors.
HR Manager
Recognizing managers who balance operational focus with genuine care for people and organizational growth.
Recognizing managers who balance operational focus with genuine care for people and organizational growth.
HR Manager
PREMIUM
Recognizing managers who balance operational focus with genuine care for people and organizational growth.
HR Services Manager
For managers who ensure HR operations run smoothly, overseeing processes, compliance, and support that help the business thrive.
For managers who ensure HR operations run smoothly, overseeing processes, compliance, and support that help the business thrive.
HR Services Manager
PREMIUM
For managers who ensure HR operations run smoothly, overseeing processes, compliance, and support that help the business thrive.
Culture Development Manager
Recognizing leaders who build inclusive, purpose-driven cultures where people feel connected and valued.
Recognizing leaders who build inclusive, purpose-driven cultures where people feel connected and valued.
Culture Development Manager
PREMIUM
Recognizing leaders who build inclusive, purpose-driven cultures where people feel connected and valued.
Employer Brand Manager
Recognizing managers who shape how a company is seen as an employer, connecting internal culture with an authentic external reputation.
Recognizing managers who shape how a company is seen as an employer, connecting internal culture with an authentic external reputation.
Employer Brand Manager
PREMIUM
Recognizing managers who shape how a company is seen as an employer, connecting internal culture with an authentic external reputation.
Learning & Development Manager
Celebrating managers who design and lead programs that build skills, support learning, and help employees reach their potential.
Celebrating managers who design and lead programs that build skills, support learning, and help employees reach their potential.
Learning & Development Manager
PREMIUM
Celebrating managers who design and lead programs that build skills, support learning, and help employees reach their potential.
People Sustainability Manager
For managers who integrate social, ethical, and environmental values into everyday people practices and decision-making.
For managers who integrate social, ethical, and environmental values into everyday people practices and decision-making.
People Sustainability Manager
PREMIUM
For managers who integrate social, ethical, and environmental values into everyday people practices and decision-making.
Talent Acquisition Manager
For HR professionals who lead the entire recruitment journey, from identifying needs to hiring and welcoming the right people.
For HR professionals who lead the entire recruitment journey, from identifying needs to hiring and welcoming the right people.
Talent Acquisition Manager
PREMIUM
For HR professionals who lead the entire recruitment journey, from identifying needs to hiring and welcoming the right people.
People Champions
Celebrating inspiring leaders and advocates who champion employee wellness, inclusion, and growth.
Celebrating inspiring leaders and advocates who champion employee wellness, inclusion, and growth.
People Champions
PREMIUM
Celebrating inspiring leaders and advocates who champion employee wellness, inclusion, and growth.
Coaching Champion
Recognizing mentors who help others grow through honest feedback, encouragement, and consistent support.
Recognizing mentors who help others grow through honest feedback, encouragement, and consistent support.
Coaching Champion
PREMIUM
Recognizing mentors who help others grow through honest feedback, encouragement, and consistent support.
Community Builder Champion
For individuals who bring people together, foster belonging, and strengthen connection across their organization.
For individuals who bring people together, foster belonging, and strengthen connection across their organization.
Community Builder Champion
PREMIUM
For individuals who bring people together, foster belonging, and strengthen connection across their organization.
Emerging HR Leader
For rising HR professionals in organizations that create strong impact through creativity, agility, and close connection with their people.
For rising HR professionals in organizations that create strong impact through creativity, agility, and close connection with their people.
Emerging HR Leader
PREMIUM
For rising HR professionals in organizations that create strong impact through creativity, agility, and close connection with their people.
HR Innovation Champion
Celebrating pioneers who introduce fresh thinking and new approaches that advance the HR field.
Celebrating pioneers who introduce fresh thinking and new approaches that advance the HR field.
HR Innovation Champion
PREMIUM
Celebrating pioneers who introduce fresh thinking and new approaches that advance the HR field.
Human-Centered Leadership Champion
For leaders who build trust and results by keeping empathy and people at the heart of their leadership.
For leaders who build trust and results by keeping empathy and people at the heart of their leadership.
Human-Centered Leadership Champion
PREMIUM
For leaders who build trust and results by keeping empathy and people at the heart of their leadership.
Wise Arbiter
Recognizing leaders known for fairness, perspective, and sound judgment in managing people and workplace challenges.
Recognizing leaders known for fairness, perspective, and sound judgment in managing people and workplace challenges.
Wise Arbiter
PREMIUM
Recognizing leaders known for fairness, perspective, and sound judgment in managing people and workplace challenges.
HR Teams
Honoring high-performing HR teams whose collaboration and innovation drive measurable organizational success.
Honoring high-performing HR teams whose collaboration and innovation drive measurable organizational success.
HR Teams
PREMIUM
Honoring high-performing HR teams whose collaboration and innovation drive measurable organizational success.
HR Team – Small Company
HR teams achieving big impact in small organizations.
HR teams achieving big impact in small organizations.
HR Team – Small Company
PREMIUM
HR teams achieving big impact in small organizations.
HR Team – Medium Company
Recognizing HR teams in mid-sized organizations that balance strategic growth with hands-on support and collaboration.
Recognizing HR teams in mid-sized organizations that balance strategic growth with hands-on support and collaboration.
HR Team – Medium Company
PREMIUM
Recognizing HR teams in mid-sized organizations that balance strategic growth with hands-on support and collaboration.
HR Team – Large Company
For HR teams in large organizations that deliver results at scale while keeping people and culture at the center.
For HR teams in large organizations that deliver results at scale while keeping people and culture at the center.
HR Team – Large Company
PREMIUM
For HR teams in large organizations that deliver results at scale while keeping people and culture at the center.
Employer Brand Team
For creative teams that shape how a company is seen as an employer, connecting its values with the talent it attracts.
For creative teams that shape how a company is seen as an employer, connecting its values with the talent it attracts.
Employer Brand Team
PREMIUM
For creative teams that shape how a company is seen as an employer, connecting its values with the talent it attracts.
HR Analytics Team
Recognizing data-focused HR teams that turn information into practical actions and smarter people strategies.
Recognizing data-focused HR teams that turn information into practical actions and smarter people strategies.
HR Analytics Team
PREMIUM
Recognizing data-focused HR teams that turn information into practical actions and smarter people strategies.
International HR Team
Recognizing HR teams working across borders who maintain global alignment while respecting local needs.
Recognizing HR teams working across borders who maintain global alignment while respecting local needs.
International HR Team
PREMIUM
Recognizing HR teams working across borders who maintain global alignment while respecting local needs.
People's Choice Organizational Leadership
Honoring leaders admired by the public for their authentic, human-centered approach that inspires teams and fosters a sense of value, trust, and motivation.
Honoring leaders admired by the public for their authentic, human-centered approach that inspires teams and fosters a sense of value, trust, and motivation.
People's Choice Organizational Leadership
PREMIUM
Honoring leaders admired by the public for their authentic, human-centered approach that inspires teams and fosters a sense of value, trust, and motivation.
People's Choice Organizational Leadership
Publicly voted recognition of exceptional leadership of individuals who inspire and guide people and organizations to achieve success by providing a clear vision, fostering strong relationships, and demonstrating consistent, authentic action. I
Publicly voted recognition of exceptional leadership of individuals who inspire and guide people and organizations to achieve success by providing a clear vision, fostering strong relationships, and demonstrating consistent, authentic action. I
People's Choice Organizational Leadership
PREMIUM
Publicly voted recognition of exceptional leadership of individuals who inspire and guide people and organizations to achieve success by providing a clear vision, fostering strong relationships, and demonstrating consistent, authentic action. I
People's Choice Team Collaboration
Publicly voted recognition of successful teams delivering exceptional results through effective collaboration and inclusion.
Publicly voted recognition of successful teams delivering exceptional results through effective collaboration and inclusion.
People's Choice Team Collaboration
PREMIUM
Publicly voted recognition of successful teams delivering exceptional results through effective collaboration and inclusion.
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Head of Design & Marketing
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Director of Events and Sponsorships
Anissa Tennah
Head of Events
Kim Kopetz
President and CEO
Ben Turner
Founder and CEO
Liron David
Founder + CEO
Irene Bosi
Event Director
Michael Close
Head of Design & Marketing
Renee Born
Premium Event Host and Emcee | Presenter
Carolina Ribera
Director of Events and Sponsorships
Anissa Tennah
Head of Events
Kim Kopetz
President and CEO
Ben Turner
Founder and CEO
Liron David
Founder + CEO
Irene Bosi
Event Director
Michael Close
Head of Design & Marketing
Renee Born
Premium Event Host and Emcee | Presenter
Carolina Ribera
Director of Events and Sponsorships
Anissa Tennah
Head of Events
Kim Kopetz
President and CEO
Ben Turner
Founder and CEO
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What are Employer Awards?

Employer Awards are part of Symbol Awards which celebrate excellence across a variety of industries. Employer Awards recognize outstanding achievements in HR, employer branding, and workplace culture.

Why enter awards for employers?

Entering awards has multiple benefits, including boosting brand visibility and marketing efforts. Additionally, entering awards for employers signals a strong commitment to healthy workplace culture and employee wellbeing.

How are entries evaluated?

All entries in Symbol Awards are evaluated by top experts in their respective fields. Entries are evaluated based on a set of clearly defined criteria, and are further judged on their own merit.

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