Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Please see the Best Places to Work in Collections program requirements below.

Eligibility

  • Be a Collection Agency, Collection Law Firm, Creditor, or Debt Buyer
  • Be a publicly or privately held business
  • Be a for-profit or not-for-profit business
  • Have a minimum of 10 full-time or part-time employees worldwide (please note: all support and surveys will be in English)
  • Must be in business a minimum of 1 year

Disclaimer

Best Companies Group and our partners reserve the right to exclude any participating organization that does not align with the intent and spirit of the program.

How to enter your organization

All organizations will participate in one of three ways:

1. As an individual organization possessing one Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) or Business number.

2. As the parent/holding company of multiple organizations with one FEIN/Business number for all subsidiaries. The parent/holding company must register with all eligible employees working for that parent/holding company.

3. Subsidiaries of a parent/holding organization may register separately if each subsidiary organization possesses a separate FEIN/Business number. If the organization has multiple facilities, branches, factories, offices or stores, all locations must be included in the survey if they operate under the same FEIN/Business number.

Which employees to include

Include all current, full- and part-time global employees in the survey process, from the CEO, partners, all the way to line-level employees, including remote employees.

Exclude all temporary, seasonal or per diem employees, PRN, 1099 employees/independent contractors, volunteers, interns, outside consultants or staffing employees placed by other organizations.