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Best Places to Work Applications

Apply now for Biz 417’s Best Places to Work in association with Best Places Group.

Sep 01 2025 at 8 a.m.

Biz 417’s Best Places to Work 2026 is now closed

Biz 417 is proud to bring you the fifth annual Best Places to Work contest, highlighting outstanding local businesses that are highly successful, offer robust employee benefits and have a motivating workplace culture.

Check back soon for info on next year's entries. In the meantime, you can seee categories and qualification requirements below, or take a look at this year’s winners for inspiration.

For information about eligebility requirements, visit the Best Companies Group website.

How It Works

Powered by Best Companies Group’s proprietary model and platform, Biz 417 offers the exclusive and most respected workplace survey, unparalleled data and benchmarking, and industry-leading research and insights, all supported by a wealth of resources and a thriving community.

Biz 417 is proud to bring you the fifth annual Best Places to Work contest, highlighting outstanding local businesses that are highly successful, offer robust employee benefits and have a motivating workplace culture. Biz 417's Best Places to Work serves as the catalyst that helps your company elevate employee culture and productivity, increase client engagement, and cultivate an elite workplace.

Small Employer: 10–50 employees
A Small Employer is considered any organization that has 10–50 employees. These companies are ranked based on exemplary company culture, productivity and being trailblazers in our community.

Medium Employer: 51-149 employees
A Medium Employer is considered any organization that has 51–149 employees. These companies are ranked based on exemplary company culture, productivity and being trailblazers in our community.

Large Employer: More than 150 employees
A Large Employer is considered any organization that has 150 or more employees. These companies are ranked based on exemplary company culture, productivity and being trailblazers in our community.

Winners are based entirely on a data-driven, anonymous survey from employees. Their feedback demonstrates the importance of employee-ownership and emphasizes the impact effective corporate leadership has on achieving successful business performance, employee engagement and customer retention.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for consideration, organization must:

• Be a publicly or privately held business
• Be a for-profit, not-for-profit business or government entity/municipality
• Have a facility in the 417 Region
• Have a minimum of 15 full-time or part-time employees working in the Southwest Missouri region
• Must be in business a minimum of one year

Take a Look at Past Winners

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2025

Best Places to Work in Springfield, Missouri 2025

Biz 417 is celebrating the Best Places to Work in southwest Missouri for the fifth year. Read about the small and large companies who made the 2025 list.
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2024

Best Places to Work in Springfield, Missouri 2024

Biz 417 is celebrating the Best Places to Work in southwest Missouri for the fourth year. Read about the small and large companies who made the 2024 list.
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2023

Best Places to Work 2023

Here's Biz 417's 2023 list of the top 20 companies to work for in Springfield, Missouri.
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2022

Best Places to Work 2022

Here's Biz 417's 2022 list of the top 20 companies to work for in Springfield, Missouri.
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