A Celebration of the Best Places to Work in the Public Sector

Once again, this list is FREE to enter to all Public Sector Organisations

In 2007 Best Companies, the name behind The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For lists researched and published the first ever list of the Best Councils to Work For. The positive publicity created by the list illustrated that top performing Government bodies really are measuring up with the very best of UK business.

This year Best Companies and our publishing partner The Sunday Times will celebrate and recognise the Best Places to Work in the Public Sector for the second time! In March 2011 The Sunday Times will publish a supplement detailing those organisations.

What's in it for your organisation?

Being a ‘Best Place to Work’ takes a deep-rooted commitment by your organisation to being the best it can be in every area of the workplace in supporting the day to day working lives of your workforce. Research has proven that employee engagement directly affects customer experience, staff recruitment and retention, productivity and absenteeism; this project enables organisations to gauge levels of engagement.

Participation in the Best Public Sector to Work For offers:

• High-profile media attention
• Positive publicity will help attract and retain the best employees
• Top-line results and feedback from employees about their workforce through our online and interactive ‘Workplace Insight Tool’ (WIT)
• Benchmarking against other Public Sectors
• Year on year results providing analysis of trends and progress*
• An optional upgrade to gain extensive additional data helping to pin point specific areas for improvement

* if participating in continuous years

In order to be eligible to participate in the 'Best Places to Work in the Public Sector', an organisation must be able to answer yes to one of the following statements:

• Either be more than 50% owned by a government body
• Or have the majority of its directors appointed by government
• Or have its business plan determined or approved by government

At Sport Northern Ireland we are constantly striving for excellence. To achieve this we believe our people are our most important asset, therefore we strive to maximise employee engagement and make the work environment as comfortable as possible. Participation in the Best Companies process has provided the organisation with a health check which ultimately allows us to improve how we do things whilst keeping the staff at the heart of all we do.Turlough Gorman
Human Resources Manager, Sport Northern Ireland