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Mental Health Report – What are engaged organisations doing to help?

Our free Mental Health report looks at what Best Companies accredited organisations are doing to support their employees. Assessing what advice is currently available to employers, establish what the mental health trends are in engaged organisations and take a look at the success stories of those businesses with strong mental health practice who have excelled with employee engagement.

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How did Stockport Homes top the Best Not For Profit Organisations to Work For 2020 list?

Topping the Best Not For Profit Organisations to Work For List as published by Best Companies - Case Study with Stockport Homes outlining how employee engagement has been instrumental in their transformation.

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The 2020 Best Companies Employee Engagement Survey - Snapshot

More than 700 organisations took part in the 2020 b-Heard employee engagement survey. Take a look at the application figures and response rates in more detail across private and not for profit organisations.

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How engaged organisations are tackling mental health at work

We asked all those who used the Best Companies employee engagement survey for information about their mental health initiatives. Take a look at examples of what accredited organisations are doing to ensure the mental health wellness of their employees and the impact it has had on employee engagement levels.

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Workplace Insight Pro - The power of comparison tables

Employee Engagement Specialist Best Companies shares its comparison table feature - gain valuable insight into how you measure up against organisations of a similar size and sector.

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Managerial Engagement - Driving performance at UK Power Networks

Case Study with Best Companies Client UK Power Networks on how managerial engagement insight and engagement workshops have helped increase overall employee engagement levels.

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Powerful SWOT Insights with Workplace Insight Pro

Best Companies provides a simple and concise breakdown of your employee engagement data. Delve deeper into your results to see a powerful way to visualise where areas for improvement lie.

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Engagement Planning - Action planning

Best Companies client, NHS Business Services Authority highlights the importance of action planning within your employee engagement journey and how involving your employees leads to shared ownership of improvement actions.

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Comments analysis telling the story of employee engagement - Workplace Insight Pro

Knowing how to improve your employee engagement levels can be difficult, but using Best Companies' comments analysis feature found within Workplace Insight Pro provides further insight right from the horses mouth.

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State of Engagement Report 2026: Download Now

What are the key Employee Engagement insights this year? What can organisations do to tackle the challenges that they have faced over the past 12 months? From benefits of AI to how People Leaders are the vital enablers of Organisational Clarity, download our latest State of Engagement Report to see how your organisation can have a successful 2026.

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Beyond the Balance Sheet: How Rickard Luckin is Redefining Success in Accountancy

Can a firm achieve world-class commercial success by putting numbers second and people first? In just three years, Essex-based accountancy firm Rickard Luckin transformed its culture, skyrocketing from a 1-Star to a 3-Star 'World Class' Best Companies rating. Discover how radical pay transparency, innovative promotion pathways and a "leadership reset" helped them bridge the expectation gap, outperform the sector average and redefine what it means to work in professional services.

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How Do Mergers and Acquisitions Affect Employee Engagement and Organisational Health?

Mergers are heralded as strategic triumphs in boardrooms, but on the ground, they are a shock to the system for employees. When leadership focus shifts to operational synergy, uncertainty often triggers ‘Merger Syndrome’, driving down engagement, trust and wellbeing. Using real-world data and the 8-Factor framework, this article explores where workplace cracks typically appear during a transition, how to spot hidden opportunities within your teams and the blueprint for maintaining Organisational Health.

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Accountability and Action: How Rayner Essex Built an ‘Outstanding’ Workplace Culture

How do you transform a workplace culture from a routine "box-ticking" exercise into an award-winning success story? In this exclusive interview, the leadership team at Rayner Essex shares the exact strategy behind their meteoric rise to a 2-Star Best Companies accreditation. Discover how they smashed the accountancy sector average by boosting wellbeing scores by 13%, breaking down partner hierarchies with office jigsaw puzzles, and introducing radical team-led flexibility.

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ForHousing: Building a High-Performance Workplace Culture

ForHousing is proving that empathy is a powerful business tool. By prioritising psychological safety, leadership transparency and innovative wellbeing frameworks like 'Your Mind Matters', ForHousing has outperformed sector averages in Leadership and Personal Growth. Discover how they moved beyond KPIs to measure the 'heartbeat' of their organisation and built a culture colleagues truly belong.

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Powerful SWOT Insights with Workplace Insight Pro

Best Companies provides a simple and concise breakdown of your employee engagement data. Delve deeper into your results to see a powerful way to visualise where areas for improvement lie.

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Engagement Planning - Action planning

Best Companies client, NHS Business Services Authority highlights the importance of action planning within your employee engagement journey and how involving your employees leads to shared ownership of improvement actions.

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Comments analysis telling the story of employee engagement - Workplace Insight Pro

Knowing how to improve your employee engagement levels can be difficult, but using Best Companies' comments analysis feature found within Workplace Insight Pro provides further insight right from the horses mouth.

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Engagement Planning – Data dissemination

Best Companies details why it is important to cascade your results effectively and provides best practice around sharing your employee engagement survey results with all parts of your organisation.

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Engagement Planning - Increasing your response rate

Best Companies client Suez provides insight into how they keep response rates high and we take a look at the importance of having high survey response rates in order to improve employee engagement levels.

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Best Companies reaches fundraising milestone - £1.5million for UK charities

Best Companies fundraising imitative gives every organisation taking part in the b-Heard survey an option to donate a chosen amount per survey completed to a charitable cause that’s close to their hearts.

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How We Keep Feedback Anonymous at Best Companies

The b-Heard survey is strictly confidential meaning you can be honest and not worry about responses being tracked back to you. Our reports are based on the average responses from groups of no fewer than five employees and will not identify individuals.

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Improving Your Experience With Best Companies

After listening to your feedback, we have some exciting announcements for the next year at Best Companies! Find out how are we improving our products and your experience with us for 2024.

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Best Companies 2021 Product Roadmap - March

What are the plans for Best Companies' products over the coming months?

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