This year for the first time, Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators is recognizing outstanding organizations in six different categories, including these five international companies.
Finalists
ATB Financial
Calgary, Alberta
It’s three-year-old tech incubator, ATB Ventures, enables cross-functional collaboration to turn employee ideas into commercially viable inventions, like the patent-pending Turing Box, a machine-learning framework designed to eliminate bias from artificial intelligence.
New World Development
Hong Kong
The commercial property company operates a Business Catalyst program to identify and support promising entrepreneurs, both from within and outside the company.
Telus International
Vancouver, British Columbia
Through Telus International University, employees and their family members receive subsidized tuition towards bachelor degrees.
Traveloka
Tangerang, Indonesia
When business was brought to an abrupt halt by the pandemic, the Indonesian travel platform pivoted to help book COVID-19 tests across 130 cites in Asia.
VIPKid
Beijing
Last year, the Chinese online learning company launched a non-profit, VIPTeach, and introduced its Global Online Teaching Fellowship to equip early and mid-career educators with state-of-the-art tech skills.
Read more about Fast Company‘s 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators 2021.