{"id":814468,"date":"2026-07-20T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814468\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:15:09","slug":"forbes-ranked-canadas-best-employers-for-2026-these-11-montreal-companies-made-the-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814468\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes ranked Canada’s best employers for 2026 & these 11 Montreal companies made the cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you work for a big company in Montreal, there’s a decent chance your employer, or one down the street, just landed on a new list worth knowing about. Forbes<\/a> released its latest edition of its Canada’s Best Employers For Company Culture<\/a> ranking this month, and once again, Quebec workplaces made a strong showing.<\/p>\n

For this year’s ranking, Forbes teamed up with Statista to survey more than 37,000 Canadians working at companies with at least 500 employees, asking them to rate their own employer on things like fairness, inclusion, recognition, collaboration, and career growth. The results were combined into a final list of 200 organizations across the country.<\/p>\n

Universit\u00e9 Laval held onto its title as Canada’s best employer for culture, a repeat win from last year. Right behind it, Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke jumped from #5 to #2, putting two Quebec universities<\/a> at the very top of the entire ranking.<\/p>\n

Twenty-one Quebec-based companies made the full list this year. Locally, 11 of them are headquartered right here in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Montreal companies named among Canada’s best for culture:<\/p>\n

Business Development Bank of Canada (#19) \u2013 Banking and financial services National Bank of Canada (#36) \u2013 Banking and financial services CGI (#43) \u2013 Business services and supplies BMO Financial Group (#48) \u2013 Banking and financial services Transat A.T. (#53) \u2013 Transportation and logistics Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec (#57) \u2013 Utilities Concordia University (#76) \u2013 Education Ubisoft (#89) \u2013 Media and advertising Inditex (#94) \u2013 Clothing, shoes, and sports equipment McGill University (#126) \u2013 Education CHU Sainte-Justine (#191) \u2013 Healthcare and social services <\/p>\n

That’s down slightly from the 13 Montreal companies that made last year’s inaugural list<\/a>. A few names are new to the local lineup this year, including CGI, Ubisoft, and Inditex, while others that appeared in 2025, including Jewish General Hospital, UQAM, CHUM, and Bell Canada, didn’t make the cut this time.<\/p>\n

There’s also plenty of movement among the companies that returned. Business Development Bank of Canada jumped from #52 last year to #19 this year, and National Bank of Canada climbed from #185 all the way to #36. BDC is now Montreal’s top-ranked entry on the list. Concordia University held that title last year at #10, but it’s since dropped all the way down to #76.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the province, several other familiar Quebec names also cracked the ranking, including Desjardins (#175) in L\u00e9vis, Cascades (#118) in Kingsey Falls, CIMA+ (#98) and St-Hubert (#196) in Laval, and Beneva (#61) and CHU de Qu\u00e9bec (#197) in Quebec City.<\/p>\n

You can check out the full ranking and methodology<\/a> on Forbes’ official list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you work for a big company in Montreal, there’s a decent chance your employer, or one down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[105379,197103,49,48,1569,2338,1567,12695],"class_list":["post-814468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-best-companies-in-canada","tag-best-companies-to-work-for-in-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-forbes","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-jobs","tag-montreal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}