Comparison
elli vs Great Place to Work
Great Place to Work is a label and an annual snapshot of your culture. elli is a continuous tool to steer and improve that culture, all year round, with concrete actions.
elli and Great Place to Work are often mentioned in the same breath, but they do fundamentally different things. Great Place to Work measures your culture (via the Trust Index) and, on a good score, awards a recognised label, strong for employer branding and external credibility. It is about recognition, on an annual rhythm.
elli is about management: continuously measuring what is going on, and translating that straight into concrete actions that genuinely improve your workplace. Not an annual photo but a film, and at the end of every signal there is a step a team lead can take. If you want to earn a label and improve your workplace, elli can help you go into it stronger.
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Choose elli if
- ✓ you want to improve your workplace continuously, not measure once a year
- ✓ you want concrete, actionable steps instead of a score and a report
- ✓ you want to go beyond culture and engagement: readiness (retention, resilience, absence, AI readiness)
- ✓ you want to reach every employee, including the shop floor
- ✓ you want to go live fast, at a transparent price
Choose Great Place to Work if
- an externally recognised label for employer branding is your main goal
- you are mainly after external credibility and visibility
- an annual benchmark against other employers is enough
Not either/or: many organisations use elli all year round and go into a certification with better results.
Comparison in detail
elli and Great Place to Work side by side
Legend: ✓ strongly present · ~ partial · – limited or not the focus
Where elli makes the difference
A management tool, not a label
A label tells the outside world you are a good workplace. Valuable for your employer branding, but it does not make your workplace better on its own. elli is built to improve: it continuously measures what is going on and turns that into actions that genuinely move your organisation forward. Recognition is the result, not the goal.
A film, not an annual photo
An annual measurement tells you how things stood at one moment. But culture, engagement and workload move constantly. elli measures continuously with short pulses, so you see shifts when they happen, and can adjust before the next measurement, instead of after.
From score to action, and beyond culture
Great Place to Work gives you a score and a benchmark; what you do with it is up to you. elli delivers data-specific, explainable actions with an owner and follow-up. And it looks broader than culture alone: readiness adds retention, resilience, absence and AI readiness, the information you need to genuinely steer performance.
elli is also built for mixed workforces: alongside the digital survey it supports paper surveys, so you reach the shop floor too.
Where Great Place to Work is stronger
Fair is fair: on its home ground Great Place to Work is unmatched. It is a widely recognised, external label with strong name recognition, exactly what has value for employer branding, recruitment and external credibility. elli offers no certificate or label. If external recognition is your first priority, Great Place to Work is the right choice. If you want to measure, understand and improve your workplace all year round, then elli is, and the two do not exclude each other.
Proof
Proven in practice
With high participation all the way to the shop floor.
Live dashboard within 24-72 hours, without an IT project or consultant.
Transparent pricing, visible on the site.
Frequently asked questions
Is elli an alternative to Great Place to Work? +
Partly. elli and Great Place to Work have a different purpose: Great Place to Work is a label focused on external recognition, elli is a continuous tool to improve your workplace. If you mainly want to improve and act, elli is the better choice, and you can also use it alongside a certification.
What is the difference between elli and Great Place to Work? +
Great Place to Work measures your culture on an annual rhythm and, on a good score, awards a label. elli measures continuously, across more dimensions than culture alone, and translates the results straight into concrete actions with follow-up.
Can I use elli alongside a Great Place to Work certification? +
Yes. Many organisations use elli to measure and improve all year round, and go into a certification with stronger results. The two strengthen each other.
Does elli measure more than culture and engagement? +
Yes. elli measures workforce readiness across multiple dimensions, engagement, retention, resilience, absence and AI readiness, in one dashboard.
Does elli also reach production and shop-floor employees? +
Yes. Alongside the digital survey, elli supports paper surveys and adapts tone and language to whoever fills them in.
Is elli GDPR-compliant? +
Yes. elli is built in Belgium with GDPR by design; data stays in the EU and individual scores are never visible to managers (the 5+ anonymity rule).
What does elli cost? +
elli uses transparent pricing from €99/month per 50 employees, visible on the site.
Make your workplace better every day, not once a year.
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