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Fortune Media and Great Place to Work Name Drees Homes to the 2025 Best Medium Workplaces List

Aug 28, 2025

Fort Mitchell, Ky. — Great Place To Work® and Fortune magazine have selected Drees Homes for the 2025 Fortune Best Medium Workplaces™ List. This is Drees Homes’ second time being named to this prestigious list, coming in at No. 36 nationwide. Earning a spot means that Drees Homes is one of the best companies to work for in the country.

 

To determine the Best Medium Workplaces list, Great Place To Work analyzed the survey responses of over 228,000 employees from Great Place To Work Certified™ companies with between 100 and 999 U.S. employees.

 

Drees Homes Vice President of Human Resources Pamela Rader shared, “We are honored to once again be recognized as one of the nation’s Best Medium Workplaces. At Drees, we believe a great place to work starts with a culture grounded in stability, integrity and success. We strive to ensure our employees feel valued, supported and empowered to grow—because when our people thrive, so do our customers. That commitment translates into creating an experience for our homebuyers that is not only easy and memorable, but one they truly love.”

 

The Best Medium Workplaces list is highly competitive. Great Place To Work, the global authority on workplace culture, determines its lists using its proprietary platform to evaluate and certify thousands of organizations in America’s largest ongoing annual workforce study, based on over 1.3 million survey responses and data from companies representing more than 8.4 million employees this year alone.

 

Survey responses reflect a comprehensive picture of the workplace experience. Honorees were selected based on their ability to offer positive outcomes for employees regardless of job role, race, gender, sexual orientation, work status, or other demographic identifier.

 

“Small and medium businesses can compete with anyone for talent when they build an irresistible culture,” says Michael C. Bush, CEO at Great Place To Work. “These companies make the most of their strategic advantages as smaller organizations, ensuring every employee feels recognized for their contributions and rewarded with their fair share of the benefits of success.” 

 

Drees Homes first became certified as a Great Place To Work in 2023. Since then, Drees has also appeared on the Fortune Best Workplaces in Construction and Best Workplaces for Millennials lists.

 

About Drees Homes

 

Family-owned and operated for over 95 years, Drees Homes has earned the title of "America's Best Builder" (twice) from Builder Magazine, "National Builder of the Year" from Professional Builder Magazine, as well as the "National Housing Quality Award" from the National Association of Home Builders. This is known as the prestigious “Triple Crown” of national homebuilding awards. Headquartered in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, Drees operates in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Nashville, Raleigh, Washington D.C., Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. The company operates as Drees Custom Homes in Texas. For more information, visit dreeshomes.com.

 

About the Fortune Best Medium Workplaces List

Great Place To Work selected the Fortune Best Medium Workplaces List by surveying companies employing 8.2 million people in the U.S., with 1.3 million confidential responses received. Of those, more than 228,000 responses were received from employees at companies eligible for the Best Medium Workplaces list and this ranking is based on that feedback. Company scores are derived from 60 employee experience questions within the Great Place To Work Trust Index™ Survey. Read the full methodology.

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About Great Place To Work

As the global authority on workplace culture, Great Place To Work brings 30 years of groundbreaking research and data to help every place become a great place to work for all. Its proprietary platform and For All Model™ help companies evaluate the experience of every employee, with exemplary workplaces becoming Great Place To Work Certified or receiving recognition on a coveted Best Workplaces™ List.
 

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