Best Places to Work in Sports 2024

11.18.2024

This week, Sports Business Journal recognizes its second annual class of Best Places to Work in Sports.

The honorees represent industry segments covering the spectrum of sports, from major league teams to behind-the-scenes companies, with workforces that range from seven people to 8,000 employees.

More than 9,000 employees of 100 companies took part in a confidential employee satisfaction survey administered this summer by SBJ partner, Omaha, Neb.-based Quantum Workplace.

The survey measured more than 40 key areas that make up an organization’s culture, such as employees’ trust in leadership, company perks and communication.

The data also provide a comparison of these companies to organizations outside the sports world. The finalists recognized in this issue, for example, were far more likely than the more than 3,200 non-sports companies in Quantum’s other studies to offer paid paternity leave.

Comments on the employee surveys from the 26 medalist companies describe why they consider their company to be one of the Best Places to Work in Sports.