Canada's best employers were revealed and this is why they are top companies to work for
Microsoft, Lululemon, Costco, Air Canada and more companies made the list.
Microsoft building in Toronto. Right: Concordia University building in Montreal.
The best employers in Canada for 2025 were just revealed in a new ranking.
A lot of well-known companies — including Microsoft, Lululemon, Apple, Costco, and Air Canada — made the list as top places to work in this country.
Forbes released its first-ever ranking of Canada's Best Employers for Company Culture on July 15, 2025.
There are companies in healthcare, banking, finance, transportation, retail, education, IT, telecommunication, and other industries.
More than 40,000 Canadian-based workers who are employed at companies with at least 500 people on staff were surveyed by Forbes and Statista.
Employees anonymously shared if they would recommend their current employer and their ratings of the employer based on the fairness, inclusivity and opportunity of the company culture.
That includes ratings on performance recognition, work-life balance, acceptance of input and ideas from employees, collaboration among coworkers, advancement opportunities, and more.
All of the data was incorporated into a scoring system.
Then, the 200 highest-scoring companies made the 2025 ranking of the Best Employers for Company Culture.
Here are the top 10 employers in Canada for company culture, according to Forbes:
- Université Laval
- The Hershey Company
- Oak Valley Health
- Humber College
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- Brock University
- Microsoft
- Automatic Data Processing
- Concordia University
Most of the companies in the top 10 are headquartered in Ontario and Quebec!
There are a lot more well-known employers on the list.
Here's where some of those big companies ranked:
- Lululemon — 11th
- Transat — 17th
- Adidas — 21st
- Dalhousie University — 25th
- Apple — 29th
- Desjardins — 34th
- LCBO — 35th
- Nike — 43rd
- BC Ferries — 45th
- TD Bank Group — 49th
- CIBC — 63rd
- Costco — 65th
- Aritzia — 71st
- Sephora — 82nd
- University of British Columbia — 86th
- University of Toronto — 97th
After that, Scotiabank, Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Air Canada, University of Guelph, WestJet, Amazon, RBC, Home Hardware, Google, Shopify, Canadian Tire, McGill University and other companies also made the list.
Earlier this year, Forbes put out the 2025 Canada's Best Employers ranking, which included companies in tech, education, food, finance, and more industries.
A lot of those companies also made the new Best Employers for Company Culture ranking.
Microsoft, Concordia University, Adidas, Lululemon, Apple, Costco, Greater Toronto Airports Authority, WestJet, Home Hardware, and more companies are on both lists for 2025.
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