Companies Offering Best Place to Work
Browse 165+ companies offering Best Place to Work—for a better work-life balance. 8,890+ open roles.
- Companies
- 165
- Average hours a week
- 39.9
- Average work-life score
- 58/100
165 companies
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Tell us about an employer with a 4-day week, a 9-day fortnight, half-day Fridays or another shorter week. We research it from public sources and list it free.
How a best place to work works
Award-winning workplace, recognised by a work-life / best-place-to-work award
Best for: people who prize a proven, award-winning culture and flexibility over a formally shorter week.
- A standard 5-day week, but recognised by a credible work-life / best-place-to-work award
- Verified on the awarding body’s official list (Great Place to Work, Glassdoor, Built In, and others)
- Always paired with at least one flexibility or work-life benefit (remote, flexible PTO, etc.)
- For people who want a proven culture, not just a formally shorter week
How we rank these companies
These companies are ordered by their work-life score — a 0–100 rating we calculate from each employer’s published policies, averaging 58 across the 165 companies on this page.
- Contracted hours carry the most weight — the fewer hours a full-time week actually is, the higher the score. A 40-hour week earns nothing here, and a week on reduced pay counts as at least 32 hours.
- Remote and schedule flexibility comes next: whether the role is genuinely remote, how much say you have over your hours, and whether core hours are fixed.
- Paid leave is scored above a 15-day baseline, so a statutory minimum adds nothing and a genuinely generous allowance does.
- The schedule itself can add or subtract. A genuine reduced-day week scores positively; a full-week perk such as unlimited PTO scores negatively, because it is not a reduction in hours.
Every company starts from the same baseline and is scored on the policies recorded in its profile, so a company that publishes more detail is scored more precisely. The same score appears on that company’s own page. Read the full scoring rubric
How we curate this list
We track employers and the schedule policies they publish, researched from public sources — 4-day weeks, 9-day fortnights, half-day Fridays, flexible hours, generous leave and more. This page refreshes daily. Read our editorial standards. Know one we're missing? Suggest a company.
Last reviewed: November 6, 2026
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- 4 Day Week Companies in the United Kingdom343 companies
- 4 Day Week Companies in the United States207 companies
- 4 Day Week Companies in Canada37 companies
- 4 Day Week Companies in Germany30 companies
- 4 Day Week Companies in Australia22 companies
- 4 Day Week Companies in France17 companies
- 4 Day Week Companies in the Netherlands14 companies
- 4 Day Week Companies in Spain13 companies
Frequently asked questions
How many companies offer a best place to work schedule?
We list 165 companies offering best place to work. Best Place To Work is a policy that sits on top of a standard full-time week. Prominent employers include Accso, Acquia, and Acturis. Browse the list above for company profiles and current open positions.
What's the typical pattern for a best place to work arrangement?
The specifics vary by company — how much leave, which days, or how flexibility is granted under a best place to work policy. Each company profile shows the exact version they operate.
Which industries most commonly adopt a best place to work schedule?
Technology, consulting, and professional services dominate adoption of the best place to work pattern. Engineering-heavy and knowledge-work roles are the most common, though an increasing number of design, marketing, and product-focused organisations appear in the listings. Click through to individual company pages for industry-specific context on how the schedule operates in practice.
How do vacation policies compare at best place to work employers?
Individual company profiles detail the exact PTO policy. Some employers combine the schedule with unlimited or generous PTO policies; others stick to standard allowances. Leave is separate from the schedule itself.
Is salary lower at companies offering a best place to work?
A best place to work policy describes how the week is organised rather than how many hours it holds, so it is not a pay question in itself; each company profile states the employer's schedule and benefits.