East West Partners, a Colorado-based real estate and community developer devoted to creating terrific places, is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place To Work® for the first time in 2025. This prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at East West Partners. In a company-wide survey, 100% of employees said it’s a great place To Work—43% points higher than the average U.S. company.
Great Place To Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention and increased innovation.
“We are thrilled to become Great Place To Work-Certified™ because it’s a testament to the hard work from our team and the culture we have created,” said Chris Frampton, CEO of East West Partners. “One of our core values as a company is prioritizing our people, not only being a workplace where every employee feels respected, valued and empowered but ensuring we are improving employee engagement year after year. This is great recognition, but there’s always more work to do.”
East West Partners has been recognized as a great place to work by several programs including Outside Magazine and The Denver Post. The company continues to improve employee benefits and programs. Beginning in 2026, East West Partners will increase the employee 401k match from 33% to 50% of the first 6% of salary and has improved other benefits such as switching to an insurance platform that provides an expanded network and better discounts, providing HSA seed money, and expanding employee coverage such as increased accident and critical illness coverage and new hospital indemnity. These new benefits build on improvements the company has made in the past three years including a month sabbatical after being at East West for seven years and then another month sabbatical every five years thereafter, unlimited time off, 14-week paid parental leave, $1,000 Annual Wellness Bonus, and improvements to internal communication and IT support.
“Great Place To Work Certification is a highly coveted achievement that requires consistent and intentional dedication to the overall employee experience,” says Sarah Lewis-Kulin, the vice president of Global Recognition at Great Place To Work. She emphasizes that certification is the sole official recognition earned by the real-time feedback of employees regarding their company culture. “By successfully earning this recognition, it is evident that East West Partners stands out as one of the top companies to work for, providing a great workplace environment for its employees.”
According to Great Place To Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work, and are twice as likely to be paid fairly, earn a fair share of the company’s profits and have a fair chance at promotion.
