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Win the candidates your competitors are losing.Certification, Recognition & Visibility
Best Practice Institute has spent 25 years studying what makes workplaces people genuinely love. A limited number of companies earn Most Loved Workplaces® certification each year — those that prove it get the recognition, the Top 100 placement, and the candidate-search visibility everyone else is fighting for.
Limited cohort · By qualification · 1,800+ certified to date · Top 100 capped at 100
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The Evidence Base
25 Years · 2001–2026
Built on the SPARK framework. Validated across every industry, region, and company size.
Source: BPI / Most Loved Workplace® research program, 2001–2026
The Global List of Record
The Top 100 Global
Most Loved Workplaces® 2026.
Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)
Kyndryl
Veritiv
IDEAL Industries Inc
APCO
Incyte
Databricks
O2E Brands
Pattern
HLB Interntational
The Evidence
What happens when employees love where they work.
A twenty-five-year longitudinal study across ten thousand organizations and 2.8 million employees produced one consistent finding. Emotional connectedness — not compensation — is the strongest predictor of retention, performance, and inbound talent.
Best Practice Institute · Longitudinal SPARK Study · n=10,000+ · 2001–2026
- 014×
Higher employee retention
MLW certified vs. industry baseline
- 0292%
Apply rate at certified employers
Survey of applicants to MLW® organizations
- 0348%
Highly engaged employees
Certified vs. non-certified workforce
- 042.8M
Employees in the dataset
Across 1,800 certified companies
The Method
Five dimensions, one question: do people love it here?
Dimension 01 / 05
“Cross-functional cooperation embedded in process, not personality.”
Love of Workplace Index™
The validated psychometric instrument that scores SPARK across an organization. Developed at BPI, peer-reviewed, and applied across 10,000+ organizations on six continents.
Validated · 6 ContinentsThe Platform
Built on the research. Used by certified companies.
The same SPARK methodology that powers the certification, delivered as working tools — not slideware.
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The Institute
Twenty-five years.
One question.
Founded in 2001 by organizational psychologist Louis Carter, BPI has spent a quarter-century studying what makes people love where they work — and translating that science into the methodology behind the Most Loved Workplace® certification.
The institute's research has been applied inside 150+ Fortune 1000 organizations and validated across 1,800+ certified workplaces spanning every industry, region, and company size.
About Best Practice InstituteSelected Milestones · 2001–2026
Two Doors · One Institute
Best Practice Institute · Established 2001 · Stamford, CT