6 reasons to apply to Fast Company’s 2024 Best Workplaces for Innovators

With more than a dozen new categories, Fast Company’s sixth annual Best Workplaces for Innovators list is aiming to be more comprehensive than ever. Here are six reasons why you should apply.

1. Brand exposure. Every company selected as a finalist will be featured in the summer issue of the magazine and on fastcompany.com.

2. Talent retention. Public recognition as a Best Workplace for Innovators honoree provides powerful third-party validation that enhances your ability to recruit and retain top talent.

3. Editorial access. Fast Company editors will review all applications; the application represents an opportunity to highlight individuals and projects that showcase your company’s innovative prowess.  The insights Fast Company editors glean from judging applications informs our ongoing coverage, often leading to stories.

4. Credibility. Fast Company’s reputation for writing about innovation is unparalleled in business media. Inclusion on the list is a powerful stamp of approval of your company’s efforts.

5. Employee recognition. The program honors an Innovation Team of the Year as well as an Innovation Leader of the Year, along with finalists in each category.

6. Expanded opportunities for recognition. In addition to previous years’ categories, this year’s Best Workplaces for Innovators will celebrate companies operating in a wide range of sectors, including energy and manufacturing.

For more than 15 years, Fast Company has been recognizing outstanding achievement in business innovation with its annual awards programs. In addition to Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Innovation by Design, World Changing Ideas, Brands That Matter, and the Next Big Thing in Tech lists have celebrated thousands of organizations transforming industries and shaping society through paradigm-shifting products, insights, or services.

What differentiates Best Workplaces for Innovators from existing best-places-to-work lists is that it goes beyond benefits, competitive compensation, and collegiality (mere table stakes in today’s competitive talent marketplace) to identify which companies are actively creating and sustaining the kinds of innovative cultures that many top employees value even more than money. These are the places where people can do the best work of their careers and improve the lives of hundreds, thousands, even millions of people around the world.

Best Workplaces for Innovators is the most authoritative list of companies cultivating an organization-wide commitment to innovation. We hope you’ll submit your company today.

For more information on applying, see the FAQs.  But don’t delay too long—the deadline is April 5.

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