Alight Inc.
07/30/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/30/2026 07:00
Alight achieves distinction as one of America’s Best Companies in 2026 by TIME
Alight achieves distinction as one of America's Best Companies in 2026 by TIME
Deerfield, IL Jul 30, 2026 |
Alight, Inc. (NYSE: ALIT), a leading benefits administration provider of health, wealth and leave solutions, has been recognized by TIME and Statista as one of America's Best Companies in 2026. The award ranking identifies top-performing U.S. companies using a data-driven evaluation across dimensions of employee satisfaction, financial strength and sustainability transparency.
"Alight is an organization built to lead, not follow," said Rohit Verma, CEO at Alight. "Backed by our values and a focus to simplify the benefits experience, we have the expertise, scale, data infrastructure and operational experience required to serve over 30 million people during the moments that matter most. We are grateful to be recognized as one of America's Best Companies in 2026 as we focus on building the future of how employees navigate work and benefits."
Driven by the purpose of helping people, Alight operates with three key principles in mind:
- Innovating products that create real value and actionable insights: With decades of experience and data, Alight is uniquely positioned to deliver more personalized, predictive and outcome-driven experiences. For example, Alight's conversational AI pilot with two major clients led to meaningful reductions in call volume during annual enrollment, demonstrating how technology can power confident decisions while making operations more efficient.
- Delivering service and operational excellence: By modernizing process workflows, enhancing call center capabilities and focusing on critical delivery service capabilities, Alight is committed to providing quality service across the full breadth of offerings.
- Building relationships that result in enduring, trusted partnerships: When clients call, Alight shows up. This trust, responsiveness and strategic guidance is essential to driving growth and establishing new partner collaborations that allow Alight to serve as the front door to a holistic benefits experience.
TIME and Statista identified America's Best Companies 2026 based on three primary dimensions:
- Employee Satisfaction: Based on survey data from verified employees at U.S. companies over the past three years, this category covers company recommendations and employer ratings across image, atmosphere, working conditions, salary, workplace and equality.
- Financial Performance: This category is assessed on multiple metrics, including short-term and long-term revenue growth, changes in net income, asset growth and the evolution of return on assets.
- Sustainability Transparency: This category covers corporate sustainability policies and practices.
Statista publishes hundreds of worldwide industry rankings and company listings with high-profile media partners. This research and analysis service is based on the success of statista.com, the leading data and business intelligence portal that provides statistics, relevant business data and various market and consumer studies and surveys.
This honor follows several other Alight recognitions in 2026, including: TIME's Most Sustainable Companies, Fortune's Most Innovative Companies and NelsonHall's NEAT assessment for Benefits Administration.
Alight is a leading benefits administration provider of health, wealth, leave and point solutions for many of the world's largest organizations and over 30 million people. Through the administration of employee benefits, Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation. Our Alight Worklife® platform empowers employers to gain a deeper understanding of their workforce and engage them throughout life's most important moments with personalized benefits management and data-driven insights, leading to increased employee wellbeing, engagement and productivity. Learn more at alight.com.
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