Meet the top 10 purpose-led organisations to work for in 2022

These 100 teams were selected from 13,000 company nominations, and came out top after passing through a rigorous 3-month application process across 6 criteria (Impact, People, Mission, Planet, Innovation and B-Corp) , including employee reviews and votes.

This year’s list comes at a key moment in working history. Since the pandemic started, employees all over the world have been given time to think about what really matters to them (as recently reported by The Times). In a recent survey of 1500 jobseekers, 73% said that their reflection time during the pandemic has made them reevaluate their path, and 89% now wanted a career with a clear sense of purpose (up from 71% in 2015). If you also want a remote or flexible working job, you’re not alone - 74% said that a flexible working location is now their primary barometer when assessing a new role.

If you’re regularly fighting off the Monday blues or ‘Sunday scaries’, then maybe it’s time to make a move to a social enterprise or B-Corp, that also puts its people first.

We’ve rounded up the top 10 scoring organisations in The Escape 100 below. To find out more about all 100 winners, check out the full list here.

Too Good To Go - If you’re looking to help combat one of the greatest contributors to climate change, food waste, then check out Too Good To Go. Via their app, users can pick up surplus food from local restaurants, cafes, supermarkets, bakeries etc. that otherwise would have gone to waste. Too Good To Go is present in 17 countries, with 100,000 stores saving food on the app every day. In addition to saving the planet, Too Good To Go also looks after its team with flexi hours around a rough time scale, wellbeing budget, financial coaching, volunteering days, and more! 

SafetyNet Technologies - Catching the right fish just by using lights, you say? SafetyNet designs, builds, and tests light-emitting devices to increase the sustainability of commercial fishing, lowering bycatch by up to 90%. They can catch the right fish, save endangered species, sustain livelihoods of fishers and the communities that depend on them, and help ensure food security for a growing population. SafetyNet are a remote-first company, offering flexible hours, wellbeing budget, and bring together their team for a yearly overnight retreat.

LettUs Grow - Ever seen an indoor, vertical farm? Well now is your chance. Bristol-based LettUs Grow’s innovative & patented aeroponic technology allows anyone, anywhere, to grow delicious food - and that ain't all. Indoor or vertical farming grows crops in stacked layers, overall reducing food miles, water use, pesticide use and reducing pressure on soils. In addition to their ingenious name, building a sustainable farming future and getting their B-Corp certification, Lettus Grow is a remote-first company that offers flexible schedules and people-first benefits.

Earthly Limited - Earthly are on a mission to leverage the power of nature-based solutions to help businesses remove at least 1 Gigatonne (1 billion tonnes) of carbon by 2030. Their platform connects businesses to high-quality nature-based solutions that remove carbon, restore biodiversity and support local communities, and that’s not all. This B-Corp certified company cares for its team with a remote-first approach, co-working options, budget for mental and physical health, coaching, paid volunteering days, and much more.

NaTakallam - NaTakallam is simultaneously providing language services and providing digital jobs for refugees. This livelihood project combines skills building, income and work, having delivered language services to over 10,000+ individual language learners, translation clients, and 200+ educational partnerships, with more than $1.5 million in revenue self-generated by refugees since its founding. In addition to providing refugees with income, marketable skills, and enriching work , NaTakallam are helping refugees combat workforce restrictions and face the language barriers they experience in their host countries.

The Reef-World Foundation - Passionate about the oceans? Then this one is for you.The Reef-World Foundation is the leading voice on practical sustainability solutions for the scuba diving and snorkelling industry, and also leads the global implementation of the UN Environment’s Green Fins initiative. This project focuses on driving environmentally friendly practices, as well as empowering dive and snorkel companies with practical, low-cost alternatives to harmful practices, as well as providing strategic training, support and resources. This year they’re hiring, too - so don’t forget to set up your job alerts!

MovingWorlds - Moving Worlds helps social enterprises access the non-financial resources they need to scale: learning, mentorship, connections, and new partnership opportunities. In parallel, theyr connect corporations to these social enterprises to build more equitable and sustainable supply chains. Pretty cool, no? In addition to already pending their B-Corp certification, this human-first team works remotely with home-office set-up support, awarding coworkers with wellbeing vouchers, healthcare and coaching options, too!

OLIO - OLIO connects neighbours with each other and local businesses so surplus food can be shared. This could be food nearing its sell-by date, spare home-grown vegetables, or the groceries in your fridge when you go away. Their vision is for millions of hyper local food sharing networks all around the world. Whatsmore, they have a pending B-Corp certification, are fully remote, offer their team benefits like home office set-up, co-working budget, financial wellbeing and career coaching, and much more!

TechnoServe - TechnoServe’s team is on a mission to help enterprising people in the developing world to build regenerative farms, businesses and markets that increase incomes. In this year’s Escape 100, they won a second award for ‘Highest Score for Mission’, as their mission not only has environmental and social impacts, but they also help vulnerable target groups like small-holder farmers to prosper. So far they’ve touched the lives of 1.3 million people in Puerto Rico, Africa, Latin American, and Asia, and their 1,500-person strong team enjoys benefits like flexi schedules, partially remote work and other benefits!

CoGo - Connecting Good - This remote-first (but New Zealand-founded) B-Corp is on a mission to make it easy for consumers to understand and instantly see the carbon footprint of their spending, driving behavioural change. Via a handy API, banks and other corporations can integrate carbon and other sustainability data into their customer experiences, measuring factors such as living wage and social enterprise.Their team is headed by a female lead, is fully remote, and employees can look forward to a budget for wellbeing and career coaching, career skill boosts, an annual overnight retreat and more!

Ready to find your next job? Check out The Escape 100, 2022: Top 100 purpose-led organisations to ‘escape’ to in 2022 here and find a new team that inspires you with their mission, people, and working environment!