Thank you!

For six years DSN has been pleased to host the Best Places to Work (BPTW) in Direct Selling.
2022 was our final year for this program. We applaud and appreciate all the companies that made this successful.

We all know that direct selling is a people business. Measuring field engagement is critical to any company’s success, and consistently delivering on that is a hallmark of the channel. But the field is only part of the people equation. Best Places to Work in Direct Selling celebrates the important role companies play as employers in the marketplace and highlights those companies that are setting the bar for establishing and nurturing work experiences and environments that bring out the very best in people.

The Best Places to Work put a lot of stock in employee engagement, and for good reasons. High levels of employee engagement can have a profound and measurable difference on the bottom line, positively affecting morale, retention and loyalty, their quality of life outside the office and employees’ health and safety, as well as company productivity, sales, profitability, product quality and customer service. Best of all, high engagement has a spillover effect. Engagement is difficult to fake. Consumers can sense when employees aren’t being genuine and, according to Quantum Workplace, 7 out of 10 of them will spend 13 percent more with a company that provides excellent customer service.

As direct sellers, we’re always looking at ways we can raise the bar on the personalized service we extend to independent distributors and their customers. Our ability to do that effectively depends in large part upon our employee engagement efforts—a job that has become considerably more difficult with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Consumers can sense when employees aren’t being genuine and 7 out of 10 of them will spend 13 percent more with a company that provides excellent customer service.

Quantum Workplace

For more than a decade, Quantum Workplace, an employee engagement software company, has been conducting in-depth surveys with organizations throughout the world, representing nearly every industry sector, in an effort to measure employee engagement. Organizations who know where they stand can make an effort to focus more intensively on the drivers and address the detractors of employee engagement.

In addition to the Best Places to Work cover story that is in the April edition, we also publish a separate BPTW supplement, highlighting each of the honorees. Each company was provided some questions to ask employees and executives why they believe their company is a Best Place to Work in Direct Selling.

CONGRATULATIONS to all of our Honorees!

Best Places to Work 2022

• 6-TIME WINNER – LifeVantage
• 5-TIME WINNERS – Plexus, USANA
• 4-TIME WINNERS – MONAT, Scentsy
• 3-TIME WINNER – Total Life Changes
• 2-TIME WINNERS – Neora

Best Places to Work 2021

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• 6-TIME WINNERS – Nu Skin
• 5-TIME WINNERS – Jeunesse, LifeVantage, Xyngular
• 4-TIME WINNERS – Plexus, USANA
• 3-TIME WINNERS – MONAT, Scentsy
• 2-TIME WINNERS –  MODERE, Noonday Collection, SeneGence
• FIRST TIME WINNERS –  The Happy Co., Neora

Best Places to Work 2020

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• 5-TIME WINNERS – Nu Skin, Team National
• 4-TIME WINNERS – Jeunesse, LifeVantage, Xyngular
• 3-TIME WINNER – USANA
• 2-TIME WINNERS – MONAT, Scentsy, Total Life Changes
• FIRST TIME WINNERS – MODERE, SeneGence

Best Places to Work 2019

• 4-TIME WINNERS – Nu Skin, Team National, Zurvita  
• 3-TIME WINNER – Isagenix, Jeunesse, LifeVantage, Plexus Worldwide, Xyngular
• FIRST TIME WINNERS – MONAT, Noonday Collection, Total Live Changes, Youngevity

BPTW Contest Criteria and Methodology

Quantum Workplace, our third-party vendor, conducted the research and compiled the results for this program. This is the sixth year that Direct Selling News has partnered with Quantum Workplace to measure, analyze and, ultimately, honor the channel’s Best Places to Work.

The Best Places to Work in Direct Selling contest was designed by Direct Selling News with several goals in mind:

• To spotlight the channel as a positive job-creating engine
• To recognize and honor companies that have created positive work environments and become employers of choice
• To identify and share best practices with the wider direct selling community
• To provide valuable feedback and data to participating companies that will assist them in measuring levels of employee satisfaction and engagement

Employees were invited to complete an anonymous and confidential survey. A certain percentage of employees at each company, based on size, had to complete the survey in order for the company to reach the threshold to be included. After the survey period was over, the team at Quantum calculated the responses to determine overall scoring and ranking. Only companies who met the threshold determined by Quantum as the baseline for a Best Places to Work environment were announced as Honorees.

The Best Places to Work Program survey utilizes the same 30 questions across six categories for all participants, regardless of industry. No single question is weighted more heavily than the others, although certain topics may be covered more frequently than others. Six of the 30 questions on the survey are designed to quantify discretionary effort, intent to stay and advocacy for company. The other 24 questions measure workplace culture, identifying, for example, the kind of conditions under which employees are more likely to advocate for their employers. The questions may be standard, but the results are highly individual. They shed light on what each company can do to retain their valued employees. And, as we examine the direct selling channel, those results suggest some patterns within our broader industry that merit discussion.