Broster Buchanan Named One of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work in the UK 2025 for the Second Year Running

We’re absolutely delighted to have been named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025 in the Small Organisation category – for the second year running!

This award means a great deal to us because it reflects the culture we’ve worked hard to build: one that’s supportive, inclusive, and genuinely rewarding. A huge thank you to our brilliant team – this recognition is all down to you.

Official Press Release

The official The Sunday Times Best Places to Work, powered by WorkL has been published online today (23rd May 2025) by The Sunday Times in partnership with the leading employee experience platform, WorkL, showcasing the Best Places to Work in the UK.

This nationwide workplace survey honours and celebrates the UK’s top employers – which number over 500 organisations across industries and scale – and highlights the best workplaces for women, the LGBTQIA+ community, disabled employees, ethnic minorities, younger and older workers, as well as those that provide the best wellbeing support.

For the first time, this year’s survey also highlights the Best Places to Work in seven industry sectors: Business & Management Services, Hospitality, Technology, Construction & Building Materials’ Financial Services’ Marketing & Advertising and Non-Profit & Charities.

How the survey works

The Sunday Times partnered with employee-experience platform WorkL to deliver fresh insights into what makes a Best Place to Work. The awards uses 26 questions from WorkL’s employee engagement survey, developed by behavioural scientists, data analysts, psychologists, business leaders, academics and other independent parties to most accurately monitor employee engagement, wellbeing and discretionary effort in the workplace. To achieve a high overall engagement score, an organisation must score well across WorkL’s six-step framework:

1. Reward and Recognition

2. Instilling Pride

Information Sharing

4. Empowerment

5. Wellbeing

6. Job Satisfaction

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Lord Mark Price, Founder of WorkL, said: “Many Congratulations to those featured in the 2025 Sunday Times Best Places to Work list, powered by WorkL. The recognised organisations lead the way in employee experience and will now benefit from improved retention and recruitment for the year ahead. WorkL are proud to power these awards and support organisations to measure employee experience and to retain and recruit the very best employees.”

Zoe Thomas, editor of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work, said: “The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list is the UK’s biggest survey of employee engagement, compiled in partnership with workplace expert WorkL. Spanning a raft of sectors and located throughout the UK, the organisations in this year’s list range from innovative start-ups with a handful of employees to big multinational corporations staffed by thousands. These organisations know that happy employees are the superpower helping them thrive.”

The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025 employers have brought clever and inventive ideas to bear on their workforces: whether entrusting every employee with a company credit card, extending the dog-friendly office policy to include pet bereavement leave, or simply training employees sensibly so they feel empowered and enthused about their jobs. These are companies where staff have a spring in their step on Monday mornings and a willingness to go the extra mile. Why have a job just anywhere when you could be carving out a career at a Sunday Times Best Place to Work?

FULL LIST OF OVER 500 ACCREDITED SUNDAY TIMES BEST PLACES TO WORK AVAILABLE HERE

Top Ten, Spotlight and Industry Awards are highlighted below.

Best Places to Work: Very Big Organisation (2,000+ Employees)

TOP TEN organisations

· CGI IT UK

· Childbase Partnership

· David Lloyds Clubs

· EDF in the UK – Customers

· E.ON UK

· Moto Hospitality

· Octopus Energy

· Thomas Franks

· Valor Hospitality Europe

· Wingstop UK

Best Places to Work: Big Organisation (250-1,999 Employees)

TOP TEN organisations

· Champneys

· Clarion

· Culinera

· Dakota Hotels

· Dorchester Collection UK Hotels

· easyJet Holidays

· Octopus Electric Vehicles

· Savoy Hotel

· Turning Point Scotland

· Willmott Dixon

Best Places to Work: Medium Organisation (50-249+ Employees)

TOP TEN organisations

· Aligra

· Attwaters Solicitors

· Carrington West

· ·Hall Brown Family Law

· IMEX Group

· Marks Sattin

· One Big Circle

· SourceWhale

· TAG Live

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Best Places to Work: Small Organisation (10-49 Employees)

TOP TEN organisations

· Fastwarm Underfloor Heating

· Fertifa

· Iconic Smiles

· Joss Search

· Legal for Landlords

· myHappymind

· My Inhouse Lawyer

· Stuart Energy

· Sustain

· The Workplace Depot

Best Places to Work for women

Winner: Popcorn

· Highly commended: Cogent Skills

· Highly commended: FatFace

· Highly commended: HaysMac

Best Places to Work for disabled employees

Winner: Alzheimer’s Society

· Highly commended: Hollywood Bowl

· Highly commended: TAG Live

· Highly commended: Truant

Best Places to Work for ethnic minority employees

Winner: CLS Group

· Highly commended: Beyond Governance

· Highly commended: Belazu

· Highly commended: Wingstop UK

Best Places to Work for LGBTQIA+ employees

Winner: 5 Squirrels

· Highly commended: Octopus Energy

· Highly commended: Porter Novelli

· Highly commended: Turning Point Scotland

Best Places to Work for 16-34 year olds

Winner: E.ON UK

· Highly commended: SourceWhale

· Highly commended: Iconic Smiles

· Highly commended: Dakota Hotels

Best Places to Work for 55+ year olds

Winner: Brewers Decorator Centres

· Highly commended: Pi Partnership

· Highly commended: CGI IT

· Highly commended: Stuart Energy

Best Places to Work for employee wellbeing

Winner: Fertifa

· Highly commended: CGI IT

· Highly commended: SourceWhale

· Highly commended: Octopus Electric Vehicles

Industry Awards – awards in this grouping are made according to company size: Very Big, Big, Medium and Small.

Technology

· Very Big: CGI IT

· Big: Benifex

· Medium: One Big Circle

· Small: TMC3

Hospitality

· Very Big: Valor Hospitality Europe

· Big: Dorchester Collection

· Medium: Burgerism

· Small: Clownfish Events

Non-Profit and Charities

· Big: Dementia UK

· Medium: Road Haulage Association

· Small: Sutton Housing Association

Financial Services

· Big: Wealth At Work

· Medium: Intellica

· Small: Initium Corporate Finance

Marketing and Advertising

· Big: Awin

· Medium: Boldspace

· Small: Lemongrass

Construction and Building Materials

· Big: Willmott Dixon

· Medium: Associated Asphalt

· Small: Sustain

Business and Management Services

· Big: HaysMac

· Medium: Carrington West

· Small: Joss Search