Figure 1: Key well-being indicators, comparing top 20 Best Workplaces in Canada
with all other organizations surveyed by GPTW Canada in 2017–18
¢ Top 20 ¢ All other
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in 201 Canadian organizations it sur-veyed
with the Trust Index in 2017
and 2018. Detailed analysis of these
data confirms that investing in people
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psychological well-being. Trust Index
Survey results shed new light on the
organic connection between a high-trust
culture, on one hand, and employ-ee
well-being, on the other.
How healthy and safe are
great workplaces?
GPTW’s Trust Index Survey asks respon-dents
to rate how true the following
statement is: “This is a psychologically
and emotionally healthy place to work.”
This single question provides a
global indicator of whether or not a
workplace promotes employees’
psychological well-being.
Workplaces with the highest trust
levels are experienced as psychologically
and emotionally healthy. This becomes
clear when comparing the top 20 orga-nizations
(or top 10 per cent) surveyed
by GPTW during 2017–18, based on
their overall Trust Index score, with the
other 181 organizations the Institute
surveyed. Four out of five employees
in a high-trust workplace consider it to
be a psychologically and emotionally
healthy workplace (see Figure 1). This
compares with fewer than half in all the
other organizations GPTW surveyed.
Essentially, a psychologically and emo-tionally
healthy workplace is a “great
place to work.”
L E A D E R S H I P
© Great Place to Work Institute Canada. Based on 201 organi zations with 48,281 employees surveyed by GPTW Canada in 2017–18.
This chart compares the top 20 organizations with all others, based on total average Trust Index scores (average of 58 items in the survey) .
All group differences statistically significant (p<.00 1).
great place to work
This is a psychologically and emotionally
healthy place to work
This is a physically safe place to work
Our facilities contribute to a good
working environment
94.6%
85.5%
57.4%
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47.0%
82.6%
80.8%
54.2%
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Percent “almost always” or “often” true
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