Canada’s Top 100 Employers announces 2025 winners on 25th anniversary

Canada’s Top 100 Employers has unveiled its 2025 winners, marking the 25th anniversary of the annual competition that recognizes organizations with exceptional workplace practices.

The competition, managed by Mediacorp Canada Inc., evaluates employers on eight criteria that have remained consistent since its inception: physical workplace; work atmosphere and social; health, financial and family benefits; vacation and time off; employee communications; performance management; training and skills development; and community involvement.

“Twenty-five years ago, it wasn’t easy for readers to find information on best practices in the workplace,” said Richard Yerema, executive editor. “The idea behind the competition was to create more transparency about what employers offered in terms of their benefits and culture, so we could start a conversation about work and workplaces.”

Over the past quarter-century, the project has documented significant changes in workplace benefits and practices across Canada. “We see the competition winners adapting to reflect how Canada is changing,” said Kristina Leung, managing editor of the project. “The best employers recognize that traditional benefits need to reflect the nation as it is today, not how it might have been when these programs were created.”

In the first edition 25 years ago, only eight winners offered a starting paid vacation allowance of four weeks or more. Today, 31 winners provide this level of vacation, and the number continues to grow. Similarly, the number of organizations offering maternity top-up pay has increased by nearly 40 per cent among applicants over the past 15 years. This year, almost three-quarters of the employers that applied for the 2025 competition offer this benefit.

“Year after year, the effect of publishing what the nation’s best employers offer is that other organizations take note and start raising the bar on their own in fields that are important to Canadians,” said Anthony Meehan, publisher at Mediacorp. “Each year, the competition becomes more challenging for employers and earning a place on the list isn’t easy.”

Founded in 1992, Mediacorp Canada Inc. is a Toronto-based publisher of employment periodicals. Since 1999, it has managed the Canada’s Top 100 Employers project, which includes 19 regional and special-interest editorial competitions that reach millions of Canadians annually through various magazine and newspaper partners, including The Globe and Mail. Mediacorp also operates Eluta.ca, a Canadian job search engine.

The full list of Canada’s Top 100 Employers (2025) was announced today in a special magazine published by Mediacorp and distributed nationally in The Globe and Mail.

Here’s the full list of winners: