Enter Best Places to Work to secure your company’s place as a “pioneer” of the industry
With just a few days left to nominate your company for The Caterer’s Best Places to Work, there’s no time to lose to enter the awards that celebrate the top employers in the hospitality industry.
Run in partnership with Korero and sponsored by Umbrella Training, the awards identify and showcase the top 30 operators who lead the way in people engagement and workplace culture.
And if that is not incentive enough, the top six operators are invited to be shortlisted for the Catey’s Best Employer Award.
There is no one type of nominee – those who have been listed have 25 to 2,500 employees and are from the whole spectrum of the hospitality world, from hotels to restaurants, contract caterers and guest services. What is important is that you and you colleagues think your company is the best place to work in the sector.
Past winners have noted the accolade demonstrated their company’s place as “pioneers” in the industry.
Examples of some brilliant previous winners’ workplace practices include offering English lessons to staff whose first language is not English and to hiring a menopause coach to support workers.
Last year the top six operators included London hotel the Biltmore Mayfair, luxury Scottish hotel Gleneagles and hospitality management company Cycas Hospitality, with Gleneagles ultimately winning the Catey for Best Employer Award.
The hotel, with 1,600 employees, stood out as a having committed to making a shift to its people culture, with 86% of respondents reporting the company “cares about its people”, and a similar number reported they work in a “positive and welcoming environment”.
Best Places to Work isn’t just an accolade for the top operators in hospitality, it’s an opportunity to better understand your staff’s needs. Through completing an anonymous survey, it identifies what really matters to your people and what you can do to facilitate employee engagement.
All companies in the top 30 will receive a free place at The Caterer’s People Summit on 15 May 2025.
The deadline to enter Best Places to Work 2025 is 5 February 2025.