Which companies have the best work/life balance?

by The Economist

@infobeautiful Context:

Original article: https://www.economist.com/interactive/business/2025/06/16/corporate-culture (paywalled), dated June 2025.

The study was done by CultureX, “The Culture AI Company”, make of that what you will.

This was not a survey. It was based on automated sentiment analysis of Glassdoor comments from 2023–2025.

The data presentation is relative, not absolute, i.e. they present which companies are better or worse than others. No scale is provided other than “better” or “worse”.

What our analysis of 900 firms shows about their values

We crunch the numbers on what employees think in 19 industries

The Economist