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Claire Hastwell

Claire Hastwell

Claire is our Senior Content Marketing Manager. Claire works with Great Place to Work data and company culture experts to distil the psychology of high-trust workplaces. Claire co-authored the Women in the Workplace report and her profiles of Best Workplaces™ have featured in Fortune. When Claire's not sifting through our 28+ years of survey data, she's rolling out her yoga mat or daydreaming about her next U.S. road trip.

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Most recent articles

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What Is Workplace Flexibility? Definitions & Examples from Top Workplaces
Workplace flexibility is about providing the conditions for employees to thrive. And it’s only successful in great high-trust company cultures. Unlimited time off. Flex hours. The ability to work whenever and wherever. Not too long ago, these were...
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How To Prepare Your Company for a Recession or Economic Downturn
With rumblings of a recession on the horizon for 2022, many of us – employers and employees alike – are feeling the pressure. Employers are worried about how to generate revenue during an economic downturn, while employees are fearful for their jobs...
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9 Highly Effective & Practical Ways to Boost Company Pride
Company pride can be a competitive advantage, helping to motivate and retain employees. Here's how to cultivate it.  One of the most overlooked drivers of engagement, retention and advocacy, hides in plain sight: pride.  When an individual...
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The High Value of Building Pride in the Workplace
Workplace pride is about more than just feeling good. It’s an essential factor in employee engagement – ­­­­and one that’s all too often ­­neglected. ­­When it’s present at work, it inspires individuals and teams to...
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LGBTQIA+ Inclusion in the Workplace: How to Spot if Your Company Is Holding Back LGBTQ Employees
By Claire Hastwell and Chandni Kazi. When people choose not to reveal parts of their identity, they're telling you a lot. Pride Month is about showing up and being accepted for exactly who you are. And here at Great Place To Work®, we believe...
Case Studies
How Great Place To Work Certification Changed IDOC’s Recruiting Game
How IDOC used Certification in its recruitment marketing and put its employer brand on the map. It’s hard to recruit new talent — especially when your employer brand is not well-known. That was the challenge health care company IDOC faced as they set...
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6 Research-Backed Ways to Promote Employee Well-being
Don’t know what you should be doing to uplift employees’ well-being? Learn from these ideas from Certified great workpalces. Organizations are currently grappling with many issues. But one is arguably more top of mind than others. One that is keeping...
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Are Your Executives Turning A Blind Eye To Women?
Research reveals how men executives are 2.6x more likely to feel treated fairly at work than women executives. Women are not happy with the workplace. At least, not to the extent that their men counterparts seem to think, and especially not to the...
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3 Things Managers Must Do Now To Increase Engagement & Beat the Great Resignation
“Companies with bad managers can’t exist anymore.” Great Place To Work experts share the key moves for managers to make in 2022. Few people have more insights on the challenges of managers in this moment than Marcus Erb and Julian Lute. Marcus is...
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How To Get Employees To Tell Their Stories: 6 Steps
How to get the best employee stories from your people for creating a compelling employer brand. Once upon a time… If you grew up reading fairy tales, you know that sentence. It’s the one that means we’re about to climb a beanstalk or tumble down a...
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How Toxic Company Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation
Research reveals how lack of inclusion, fairness and purpose at work is causing employees to leave their jobs in droves. Earlier this year, MIT Sloan Management Review published a survey that revealed the impact of toxic culture on the Great...
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It’s #Equalpayday: What Is Your Organization Doing to Close the Gap?
How one top workplace is closing the gender pay gap and how their actions cause employee sentiment soar.  Women lose thousands of dollars each year, and hundreds of thousands over a lifetime, because of the gender pay gap. March 15, 2022 is...
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5 Genius Ways to Share Employee Stories on Social Media
Why employee stories should be part of your employer branding strategy plus real company examples for sharing them with maximum impact. What was your company’s latest social media post? Was it about your product? Or was it about your people? How...
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6 Ways to Ensure Women’s Equity in the Workplace
From trainings and promotions to internal communications and ERGs, managers can foster more fairness for women in the workplace.  Gender bias and discrimination are unfortunately still a major issue in the workplace across the country. When...
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5 Examples of Development Programs for Employees From Award-Winning Companies
Real-life examples of learning and development programs to promote growth in the Year of the Tiger. February 1 marked the Chinese New Year, and with it, we rolled into the Year of the Tiger: A zodiac sign marked by strength, vitality and...
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Transform Your Employee Experience for Hybrid Work In 7 Steps
The impact of COVID-19 on the workplace will be long-lasting, and there will be no instant rebound to the way things were before. So, what happens next needs to be handled delicately. For more than 20 months, employees have rebalanced their work-life...
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Job Seekers Are 4.5x More Likely To Find a Great Boss at a Certified Great Workplace
Our national study reveals how Certified™ companies, compared to the average U.S. workforce, have better managers, fairer paths to promotions and higher employee rentention.
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Successful Hybrid Work Models Have These 5 Things in Common
Written by Zach D'Amato and Claire Hastwell Ready or not, hybrid work is here to stay. Our research has found that three out of five Fortune 500 executives believe that up to 25% of their workforce will continue to work remotely full-time...
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Access to Guest Speakers & Thought Leaders Is the Latest Workplace Benefit
Whether supporting employee well-being, broadening horizons or challenging leaders to make meaningful change, guest speakers are becoming a popular employee benefit at companies with award-winning cultures. In fact, as COVID-19 drove workplaces to...
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Top Company Culture Articles of 2021
This past year has proved itself to be a continuation of 2020’s uncertainty. Around the globe, lockdown cycles, variants and anti-vax movements have paved the way for a “new normal” that feels anything but normal. But despite all this, 2021 also...
Press Releases
As Great Resignation Escalates, Maven Clinic and Great Place To Work® Release Study on What Parents Want in the New World of Work
Study of Half a Million Working Parents Reveals Key Strategies That Can Prevent 4 in 5 from Quitting
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Companies Gen Z Wants to Work For – And Why
Gathering over 32,000 Gen Z employee survey responses from more than 3,500 companies across the U.S., we’ve identified the workplaces that are getting it right when it comes to attracting and retaining Gen Z.
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Head, Heart, Guts and No BS: How the World’s Best Workplaces Are Changing the World of Work
2021 culture leaders go against the grain for their people