GVA Grimley Ltd has achieved ‘ 1 Star Status’ within the Best Companies Accreditation 2008 - the name behind The Sunday Times ‘Best Companies to Work For’ and will be included in the Best Companies Guide 2008, which is produced in April.

We are delighted to have been recognized for achieving this high standard. This ‘Michelin style’, elite accreditation system recognises organisations with One Star, Two Star, or Three Star status. One Star is acknowledged as First Class, Two Stars as Outstanding and Three Stars as Extraordinary.

Best Companies Accreditation has been established to acknowledge corporate excellence in the workplace and the accreditation is a focus on Workplace Engagement as an integral component of an organisations success and growth. Every company that goes for Best Companies Accreditation is given a Best Companies Index score (BCI). This score (on a scale of 1 to 1000) is defined from employee’s responses to the sixteen key questions within the Best Companies survey. ‘Star Status’ is determined by the ‘BCI’ score and the specific cut-off points for One, Two, and Three Star Accreditation remain constant year on year.

Unlike ‘The Times Top 100’ competition, ‘Star Status’ standards are fixed and any company achieving the required BCI score will always be accredited.