Fortune 100 Best Companies To Work For – Europe

As Europe faces increased disruption from AI, companies must adapt to stay competitive. Our inaugural Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For Europe™ list, in partnership with Great Place to Work highlights how companies that foster an environment that supports professional growth are more likely to thrive and successfully adopt digital innovation.

Our Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For Europe™ list demonstrates how impactful leadership drives meaningful transformation. When leaders prioritize employee well-being, it sparks the change needed to meet broader ESG goals.

Here are the 100 best places to work in Europe—and how they stay that way.

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The Top Ten

DHL Group

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Mail, Package, and Freight Delivery

DHL was founded in California in 1969, but half a century later the delivery giant's red and yellow packaging has become just as ubiquitous across Europe. Acquired by Deutsche Post in 2002 and now headquartered in Germany, the company operates from 18 European countries (out of a global 220) which drive €11bn revenue (out of a total €81.8 bn in 2023). Its 45,000 European employees benefit from hybrid working options and paid volunteering days, with the company not only tailoring further perks to each region, but putting effort into ensuring uptake. In the U.K. and Ireland, for example, over 350 Wellbeing Champions are trained to act as ambassadors for a package that includes 24/7 medical support, mortgage advice and childcare discounts.

AbbVie

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Pharmaceuticals

Pharma company AbbVie might not be a household name, despite large revenue numbers, but the 13,000 employees in its 15 European bases are encouraged to develop a sense of belonging and purpose. Considering the company's mission to make a remarkable impact on people's lives through drug and treatment research, it makes sense that AbbVie's workplace culture focuses on employees' physical, mental and emotional health. AbbVie Vitality programs are designed to support employees and encourage healthy eating and movement, provide resources for parenting, caregiving and stress management. Employee events such as AbbVie in Motion provide opportunities to make connections with colleagues while promoting healthy behaviors. Together, AbbVie colleagues around the world logged more than 25 million physical activity minutes during 2024's four-week team challenge. A feeling of wider social purpose is achieved by collaborating with local nonprofits and governments on community assistance programs, philanthropic ventures, and medical support for natural disasters.

Hilti

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Industrial Machinery

Lichenstein-based Hilti Group designs and manufactures technologies and services for the construction industry, but it also prides itself on designing and delivering impactful careers for its 18,270 European employees. A strengths-based focus to personal development aims to bring out the full potential of each individual through training, mentoring and exploration of how skills might be leveraged in various roles. Every year the company hosts 2,000 workshops across the world to facilitate knowledge-sharing, brainstorming and team connection. Employee-led groups centered around topics such as gender networks, mental health, LGBTQ+, race and ethnicity, environment and sustainability aim to encourage equity and inclusion, too.

Hilton Worldwide Holdings

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Hotels, Casinos, Resorts

With 22,972 European employees in 13 countries driving €10.24bn revenue, Hilton strives to extend the same hospitality to its staff as it does to the 3 billion guests that have visited its global hotels and resorts throughout its more than 100-year history. Generous travel discounts are an obvious perk, but there's also a Care For All program providing benefits and resources to help with eldercare, childcare, pet care, and self-care; an employee stock purchase plan; and access to same-day earnings through a DailyPay scheme. Parental support is a focus area, with a Parents Concierge offering one-to-one help, industry-leading parental leave, and an adoption assistance program. Teams and work groups decide on employees' optimal working patterns, whether onsite, hybrid or fully remote.

Cisco Systems

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Network and Other Communications Equipment

Renowned worldwide for its software, networking, security and computing services, Cisco puts the same level of thought into its employee proposition as it does into its cutting-edge technology. A clearly defined 'Conscious Culture' model embraces three areas; 'environment' (a commitment to workplace respect and equity, including a Full Spectrum Diversity policy); 'characteristics' (a set of guiding principals and behaviors role-modelled by leadership) and 'experience' (the day-to-day experiences employees undergo working for the company). Sustainability is a strong focus across Europe, with paper cup and glass-free sites established, and personalized mugs and water bottles on hand to help employees do their part. CSR is also prioritized, with the company having positively impacted 1 billion people through social impact grants and signature programs.

Stryker

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Medical Products and Equipment

One of the world's leading medical technology companies, U.S.-founded Stryker helps improve the lives of more than 150 million patients annually. But it also positively impacts on its 14,290 European employees, with country-specific benefits including bonuses, commissions, healthcare, insurance benefits, retirement programs, stock-based plans, paid time off plans, family and parenting leaves, tuition reimbursement and wellness programs. The company offers four models of flexible work-—remote, field-based, on-site and hybrid—while conversations between HR, managers and each individual aim to identify their ideal mix. Team camaraderie is nurtured through spontaneous celebrations, planned group activities and larger events such as Generations Working Together Month, which features volunteer opportunities, a generational diversity workshop, presentation and interview skills practice, and a global town hall showcasing local initiatives.

Allianz

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Insurance: Life, Health (stock)

Founded in Munich in 1890, Allianz has grown to become a leading financial services provider operating on almost every continent. Working patterns are flexible for selected employee groups, with full remote working an option, no minimum days in the office, and paid volunteering on offer. A survey in 2022 revealed that 89% of employees believe that Allianz values diversity, while 50 full-time local DEI experts support the implementation of a global DEI strategy across the group. Its commitment to transparency is reflected in a People Fact Book, published annually online. Notable stats report that 52% of employees are female, 12% work part-time, each employee gets an average of 50 hours of training per annum, and the average length of service is an impressive 10.4 years.

Specsavers

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Retail

Specsavers was launched by Mary and Steve Perkins from a ping-pong table in their home in Guernsey. Forty years on, it is the largest privately owned optical group in the world. But it's still family-run, a fact the company culture strives to reflect. A joint venture model means each store is part-owned and managed by its own directors, who are given support from key specialists in support offices. Generous allowances for eye and hearing care for employees are provided alongside enhanced time off, an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme allowing employees and partners to exchange part of their salary for electric or low-emission cars, long-term service awards, and more. A strong apprentice scheme runs through all areas of the business, with 90% of successful apprentices taking a role in the store where they trained.

Agilent Technologies

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Computer Software

At Agilent, a biotech firm that spun off from Hewlwtt-Packard in 1999, The One Agilent Way acts as a cultural lodestar for its 18,000 employees—4,690 of whom operate out of Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the U.K. While scientific passion and rigor is required of employees, work-life balance is also foregrounded, with flexible working, paid volunteer days and a generous maternity and parental pay top-up offering as standard. A robust diversity, equity and inclusion program is active in all regions; outcomes include a year-on-year increase in women in leadership positions, 98% of Agilent employees completing unconscious bias training, and Pride events taking place globally.

Chiesi Europe

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Beverages

The clue's in the name; Chiesi is a truly Italian business, founded and run by the same Parma-based family since 1935. Certified as a B Corp in 2019, the biopharmaceutical group's six European bases are actively engaged in the self-assessment and improvement of the company's rigorous sustainability targets. Other opportunities to make an impact range from paid volunteering days to invovlement in political initiatives such as #SHOWLEADERSHIP, a campaign aimed at supporting 200 million people in Europe affected by allergies and respiratory airway diseases. The group also promotes international mobility, giving employees and their families the opportunity to move to a host country on a temporary or permanent basis, with a set of services and consultants on hand to support them.