NEW YORK – April 9, 2024 – For the second year in a row, Bain & Company is one of 54 employers that has been honored with the Business Group on Health’s Best Employers: Excellence in Health & Well-being Award. The firm was recognized for its outstanding commitment to advancing employee well-being through comprehensive and innovative benefits and initiatives. The award, now in its 19th year, was announced in Tucson at the Business Group on Health’s 2024 Annual Conference.

Bain launched its global integrated approach to wellbeing, BEST, three years ago with the long-term vision to “enable every Bainie to live with vitality and fulfillment and foster a best-in-class, wellbeing-centric culture that enhances our impact on teams, clients, and communities.” With the core approach to shift individual behaviors, and elevate organizational support, BEST helps ensure that its commitment to wellbeing is a competitive advantage for the firm and its employees.

Ellen Kelsay, Business Group on Health president and CEO, said, “I am delighted to honor each and every one of these 54 employers, which demonstrably enhanced the health and well-being of employees and their families through leading-edge initiatives. In addition, their novel and impactful approaches focused on critical workforce issues, such as mental health and health equity. We congratulate all the winners.”

The comprehensive award criteria assess applicants on their approaches to leadership, culture and well-being strategy; holistic well-being, including mental health, financial well-being, social connectedness, job satisfaction, flexibility and time away; engagement and the employee experience; health equity and social determinants; and metrics and evaluation. Companies have the option to apply based on their U.S. or global workforce populations.

The firm received additional honors for excellence in Global Health & Wellbeing, which recognizes companies for demonstrating a commitment to equity with a set of standard benefits offered to their global workforces.

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Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.

About Business Group on Health

Business Group on Health is the leading non-profit organization representing large employers’ perspectives on optimizing workforce strategy through innovative health, benefits and well-being solutions and on health policy issues. The Business Group keeps its membership informed of leading-edge thinking and action on health care cost and delivery, financing, affordability and experience with the health care system. Business Group members include the majority of Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized companies, as well as large public-sector employers, which collectively provide health and well-being programs for more than 60 million individuals in 200 countries. For more information, visit www.businessgrouphealth.org.