When you’re choosing your next role, workplace benefits can be a deciding factor. From healthcare and flexibility to parental leave and wellbeing support, the right benefits can make a real difference to how supported you feel at work. If benefits matter to you, you’re in the right place.

In this blog, we spotlight companies that stand out for offering some of the best workplace benefits in 2026. This year’s list also includes the winners and finalists from the Best Workplace Benefits category at The Flexa Awards 2026, where we recognised the employers leading the way in creating environments where people can truly thrive.

These employers aren’t chosen based on marketing claims or employer promises. Instead, they’re ranked using real feedback from employees, giving an honest picture of what it’s actually like to work there.

All of the companies featured have been assessed through Flexa’s verification and insights process, which captures employee sentiment across key areas of the workplace experience, including benefits. When a company joins Flexa, its employees are invited to share their views through a confidential survey, helping us understand how well benefits meet real needs.

The award winners

🥇 Bradshaw Advisory: Bradshaw Advisory helps clients navigate, influence and solve policy challenges by bringing together a team of senior experts in economics, data, policy and public affairs.

Employee benefits include: health insurance, a work from anywhere scheme, a 4-day week, compressed hours, and more.

🥈 Boomi: Boomi helps companies around the world connect data, people, and devices quickly and easily to advance digital transformation and deliver great customer experiences.

Employee benefits include: mental health and wellbeing programs, compressed hours, health insurance, fertility benefits, and more.

🥉 Mars UK: Mars is a global, family-owned business, transforming, innovating, and evolving in ways that affirm their commitment to making a positive impact on the world around them.

Employee benefits include: shared parental leave, compressed hours, sabbaticals, paw-ternity leave, and more.

The rest of the top 10

#4 Tangle Teezer: Tangle Teezer offers an online store for various types of hair products.

Employee benefits include: carer's leave, work from anywhere scheme, women's health leave, L&D budgets, and more.

#5 ADS: As the national trade association for the UK’s aerospace, defence, security and space sectors, ADS works to promote and support their interests both at home and abroad.

Employee benefits include: adoption leave, 9-day fortnight, company shutdown periods, childcare credits, and more.

#6 Cronofy: A company on a mission to create a world where everyone has more time to spend on what’s important to them.

Employee benefits include: enhanced paternity leave, work from anywhere scheme, work from home budget, 5 personal development days per year, and more.

#7 Maersk: With over 100,000 employees across 130 countries, Maersk is a global leader in logistics services, and can offer you the opportunity to grow and evolve in a truly diverse workplace.

Employee benefits include: dental coverage, annual bonus, shared parental leave, private GP service, and more.

#8 SAP: A market leader in enterprise software, SAP turns businesses into intelligent, sustainable enterprises.

Employee benefits include: carer's leave, pregnancy support, personal development days, on-site childcare, and more.

#9 Howells: Howells was established in 1991 to provide share scheme administration solutions for listed companies with varying and complex needs.

Employee benefits include: pregnancy loss leave, work from home budget, work from anywhere scheme, open to part-time employees.

#10 Improbable: Improbable brings the widest possible range of capabilities to bear on the most difficult problems that multiplayer developers face.

Employee benefits include: dog-friendly office, equity packages, health insurance, employee discounts, and more.

More companies with outstanding benefits

Peak EOR: A people-led EOR provider, consistently delivering friendly, expert, personalised service and support to clients and their employees.

Circle: An all-in-one communications platform with a team of around 120 (and growing!) based in countries all over the world. The Circle team adopts a fully remote approach and meets twice per year.

Amplifi: Amplifi is a specialist consultancy providing Advisory, Delivery and Support services for data management, data governance and data quality.

Hurree: Powered by AI assistant, Riva, Hurree offers dynamic dashboards for up-to-date insights and customizable visualizations tailored to your needs, helping you unlock the power of your data.

Flume Training: Flume Training offers dynamic and interactive training programs designed to elevate sales performance and enhance leadership skills. 

Cronofy: A company on a mission to create a world where everyone has more time to spend on what’s important to them.

Impression: A digital marketing agency with a hybrid-working approach that aims to empower people to work from the environment that best suits them.

Strengthscope: Strengthscope's vision is to enable all humans to embrace their uniqueness and change their lives for the better. It's all about strengths.

HEINEKEN UK: As the UK’s leading beer, cider and pub business, Heineken are home to some of the world’s best-loved beers and ciders, and a leading player in the international drinks industry.

Northern: Northern connect tens of thousands of people in the North of England to work, leisure, education and more every day.

EY UK: At EY, their purpose is to build a better working world. Through the insights and services they provide, EY helps create long-term value for people and society while building trust and confidence in the capital markets.

MBDA: As a leading company in the defence industry, they deliver essential military capabilities for each branch of the Armed Forces — with specific expertise in missiles and missile systems.

NHBC: NHBC is the UK's leading provider of warranty and insurance for new-build homes. Their purpose is to raise standards in house building by championing high-quality homes and protecting homeowners. 

Camunda: Camunda enables organisations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to overcome complexity and increase efficiency.

Mott Macdonald: Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. They are a global engineering, management and development consultancy. Everywhere around the world, people’s needs and aspirations are changing, fast.

Virgin Media O2: VMO2 are an award-winning fibre broadband provider & telecommunications company. They manage 47 million UK connections across broadband, mobile, TV and home phone and have around 18,000 colleagues, working hard to provide the very best connectivity to our valued customers.

Vodafone: Vodafone is a leading international Telco serving 300 million customers. Their strong belief is that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us.

BAE Systems: BAE Systems help customers to stay a step ahead when protecting people and national security, critical infrastructure and vital information. They provide some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions and employ a skilled workforce of 107,000 people in more than 40 countries.