HAPPIEST PLACES TO WORK 2025, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PLANDAY, HAS NOW BEEN ANNOUNCED. READ THE LIST HERE.

Happiest Places to Work champions companies with the happiest teams in hospitality and highlighting on some of their most innovative practices.

One of our missions at CODE is to promote hospitality as a career, shining a light on best employment practices and continuing to make sure the industry evolves for the better. We hope our Happiest Places to Work can help achieve this.

If you’d like to be in with the chance of being listed as one of our Happiest Places to Work in 2026, register your company below.

How it works

April, Registered companies are sent their survey and questionnaire

Once registered, you’ll receive your registration pack, which runs through everything you’ll need to do, your unique survey link, to be shared with your entire team, and unique questionnaire, to be completed by you, within 15 minutes.

June, Deadline for survey responses and questionnaire

Meet the minimum survey participation* and complete the questionnaire by this date, both are mandatory.

The survey

In our survey your team will be asked just 10 questions to assess different aspects of their happiness in your workplace. Individual responses will be reviewed anonymously by our judging panel and kept in the strictest confidence, so please ask your team to answer honestly.

Teams of 50 or less must achieve 50% participation in the survey. Teams of 51 or more must achieve 40% participation.

The questionnaire

In this questionnaire, you should detail the policies and initiatives you have implemented for consideration by the judging panel alongside your survey results. Demonstrate all the work your company undertakes to create a happy workplace.

July, Judging panel

Your survey scores and questionnaire responses will be assessed by our judging panel who will select the final list and an overall winner.

September, List announced

The list and overall winner will be announced at an awards ceremony.

Happiness at work isn’t just a perk – it’s a powerful driver of success. That’s why we’re thrilled to be sponsoring CODE Hospitality’s Happiest Places to Work for the second year in a row.

At Planday, we know that a happy team is an engaged, productive, and loyal one. Creating a positive workplace culture doesn’t happen by accident. It takes intention, great leadership, and a commitment to putting people first. The Happiest Places to Work list allows us to celebrate the businesses that are making happiness a priority, and gives us a front row seat to learn from their ways of working. 

We’re helping CODE (with support from our friends at URocked), spread good vibes to all businesses. We can’t wait to see if it’s your turn to make the list.

URocked is a dynamic digital tipping platform revolutionising tipping in businesses across hospitality and beyond.

Our award-winning OneDevice, is a game-changing pay-at-table payment solution that integrates bill and tip payments into a single transaction. Bill amounts are credited to your business, while tips credit straight to your employees’ mobile apps – bypassing payroll complexity and at no extra cost to your business.

In today’s increasingly cashless landscape, URocked empowers diners to express their appreciation, knowing 100% of their gratuity reaches those who earned it. Businesses benefit from reduced administrative costs and payroll burdens, bulletproof compliance with tipping regulations, and a new era of transparency. Employees are energised by the assurance of fair treatment, complete control over their tip earnings, and the joy of regular, direct payouts. Prepare for a surge in morale and a tipping culture that truly rocks!