2025 Best Firms To Work For Award

• Registration Deadline: May 2, 2025
  
  
• Survey Completion Deadline: May 7, 2025

Best Firms to Work For (BFTWF) is much more than an award.  It’s a way of not only celebrating your firm’s successes, but also to benchmark your firm against the largest collection of employee sentiment data in the AEC industry.  

BFTWF recognizes the top AEC firms in the US and Canada based on workplace practices, employee benefits, retention rates, and other employee sentiment data.   Firms that submit for the BFTWF award are also given access to more than 2 million data points about employee sentiments gathered every year specifically focused on the AEC industry.

What Does Applying for BFTWF Give Your Firm?

• Access to the largest AEC-specific collection of employee insight, expressed in their own words
• A completely customizable surveying process
• A powerful tool for recruitment, retention, and marketing
• Recognition on stage at our annual ElevateAEC Conference & Awards Gala in San Antonio, Texas
• Marketing assets such as use of the BFTWF logo for promotional materials and physical media such as signs, stickers, trophies, and other collateral for office display

What Makes the BFTWF Award Program Unique?

• It’s both the largest and most affordable employee survey in the AEC industry
• The surveying process features completely customizable solutions

Firms that submit for the BFTWF Awards Program are ranked according to their category with the ranking based on a combination score comprising the corporate survey and employee surveys.  Firms will be ranked by size and discipline, so firms will only need to register once.  

Every firm who enters the award program receives access to employee survey data on the Zweig Insights platform.

We would love to help tailor your employee survey to fit your firm’s needs.  Our customizable surveying process lets us help you add additional questions to your survey, giving valuable insight into things like recent policies implemented by your firm.  Contact Kyle Ahern, kahern@zweiggroup.com, if you have any questions about survey or results customization. 

Zweig Group can offer expert employee survey result analysis. We now offer analysis from Zweig Group's team of industry experts to give you data driven insight into the results of the Best Firms To Work For Employee Survey. Contact Kyle Ahern for details.

Participating in the award process is an effective and efficient way to gain employee insight. All participating firms receive a summary report of their employees’ survey responses.

Important dates:

• February 2025 through Registration Deadline - Corporate and employee surveys sent out upon entering
• May 2, 2025 - Registration deadline
• May 7, 2025 - All Corporate and Employee surveys due

Winners are based on a combined score from the Corporate Survey and the Employee Survey.

Awards will be conferred at the 2025 ElevateAEC Conference. 

Privacy: Zweig Group will not, under any circumstances, disclose the names of firms that apply and do not make the list of winners.

Questions? We encourage you to contact us if you have questions or concerns about the data, privacy, or process. Please contact Kyle Ahern at kahern@zweiggroup.com or (479) 435-6519 or (800) 466-6275.