How the GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards are judged

gamesindustry.biz:

Christopher Dring

Head of Games B2B

Thursday 17th February 2022

For the past five years, GamesIndustry.biz has been running a series of Best Places To Work Awards in the UK, US and Canada.

The project was born out of the editorial team. The objective has always been to try and help improve the games industry as a place to work. Part of that is by identifying great places, but the project also encompasses talks and articles (you can watch some of them here) on workplace issues. And every business that takes part -- win or lose -- will receive a free basic report from us to help them identify areas of improvement.

We also offer a standard and advanced report for a small fee, which features additional information and analysis. This is how we fund the project, there are no other costs and even these reports are entirely optional.

This is what the awards are all about. But how do we judge them? We know that there are problem places in the games industry. We know there are issues around discrimination and excessive overtime. We write plenty of those headlines on this very website. We therefore take this process seriously. No awards are fool proof. We wish they were. But as you're about to see, how we judge the Best Places to Work Awards is as comprehensive as you'll see.

NO JUDGING PANEL

Any company working in the US, UK or Canada games markets can take place in the awards (with more territories to follow). To take part, they simply fill in the entry form when the time is right. This form asks simple questions such as 'who are you' and 'how many employees do you have' (we'll come on to that in a moment). You can see the US form right now, and the UK one will go live in April.

The awards are not judged by anything subjective like a