Webolutions is proud to announce that we’ve received the 2025 Breakthrough Culture Award from Hyer. This prestigious award is bestowed on companies throughout the United States that embody the ethos of being a people-first organization, and who have developed cultures that truly prioritize the needs and wellbeing of their employees. As a winner of this award, Hyer has recognized Webolutions as one of the top 100 best companies to work for.
Hyer is a global media company that highlights the most influential companies and company cultures shaping the future of work. They produce a wide range of content, including newsletters, podcasts, original shows and event presentations that help businesses understand how build a company culture that simultaneously is a positive force in the lives of their employees and drives long-term company success. It’s a true honor to be recognized as a trailblazer in building a strong, people-first culture by one of the leading organizations promoting the importance of company culture worldwide.
Criteria for Identifying Breakthrough Culture Award Winners
Hyer recognized 100 companies nationwide with the 2025 Breakthrough Culture Award. Companies of all sizes – from small startups through large corporations – received the award. In addition, there were 22 different industry sectors represented by the winning organizations. This diversity demonstrates that just about any company can become a leader in the pursuit of establishing a forward-thinking culture that values its employees.
Companies considered for this award were evaluated based on the following criteria:
- An assessment of the company’s current and future employee initiatives, results and accountable commitments
- Survey results from a questionnaire containing both open-ended and closed-ended questions
- The percentage of a company’s employees that took the time to respond to the survey
Over 5,000 companies were assessed as part of this process, and Hyer reviewed survey responses from more than 20,000 employees. The closed-ended questions were intended to generate single-answer responses, while the open-ended questions allowed respondents to elaborate and provide more in-depth insights into how their company’s culture has a positive impact on their work life.
The open-ended questions were assessed for the presence of specific keywords and phrases typically used to describe a progressive culture that prioritizes the wellbeing of its employees. In addition, the emotional sentiment in each open-ended response was evaluated to determine how passionately each respondent felt about their company being a great place to work. In addition, all responses were completely anonymous to foster more honest answers and eliminate the bias that often occurs when employees know their answers can be attributed to them. The open-ended responses received the greatest weight of all the criteria used to determine the winners.
The Webolutions Culture Is Fueled by Our Purpose and Core Values
At Webolutions, we’re very intentional about the culture we’ve built. Our culture is fueled by the purpose and core values established by our CEO, John Vachalek. Our purpose is to empower passionate people to thrive. There are two different ways this purpose informs the Webolutions culture:
- Our entire team recognizes that we work with a dynamic group of clients who are all extremely passionate about their industries and their work. We go to great lengths to achieve exceptional results for our clients so that we can help their business grow and thrive, empowering them to continue doing the work they love.
- Our team is also made up of a group of extremely passionate individuals – this passion is manifest in both our personal and professional endeavors. Our leadership team works hard to create a culture that empowers us to thrive in our roles and achieve our career goals. In addition, our culture honors the passions we have outside of work and encourages us to create the balance in our lives necessary to pursue these endeavors to their fullest.
In addition, John Vachalek has established a set of core values for Webolutions that reflect our purpose, as well as his commitment to creating a supportive culture based on teamwork, accountability and compassion:
- We Care About People – We actively seek opportunities to delight and bring fun and excitement to others.
- We Continuously Improve – We embrace constant change. We learn and evolve to create new possibilities.
- Our Passion Shines – We deliver the unexpected. We view challenges as exciting paths for growth.
- We Own It – We accept responsibility and honor commitments. We take extra steps to exceed expectations.
- We Win Together – We help and collaborate to excel together. As our clients and communities thrive, so do we.
At Webolutions, we do much more than pay lip service to these core values. We live them every day, and it permeates our culture in a variety of ways:
- We’ve implemented a values-based hiring process that invests considerable time evaluating a candidate’s alignment with our purpose, core values and culture to ensure they will thrive in our work environment and become ambassadors of our culture.
- We emphasize these core values throughout our onboarding process to ensure new employees understand their importance to our culture and internalize them in their daily behaviors.
- Each week at our Monday morning huddles, we highlight a different “core value basic.” This process involves discussing what the value means to our team, what the behaviors associated with these values look like, and how this value creates a positive impact on the lives of our employees and clients. Then, several employees will highlight an example of how they live this value in the work they do at Webolutions.
This intentionality and authenticity from our leadership team sets an example for everyone working at Webolutions. We see everyone at our company – from the top down – embody our purpose and core values every day, and it creates an environment that elevates and celebrates the benefits of these values in our daily lives. This is the true driving force behind the Webolutions culture.
Over the years, Webolutions has won many awards associated with the websites we’ve built for our clients. We take great pride in these awards since they’re a reflection of a job well done and the ways in which we help our clients thrive. But the Breakthrough Culture award is satisfying on a completely different level, because it recognizes the hard work everyone on our team puts in every day to make Webolutions such a great place to work. It’s proof that these efforts have paid off and that our team recognizes the powerful ways our culture impacts their lives.
Many of the employees at Webolutions have worked here for a very long time. A significant percentage of our team has been here for at least five years, and there are also quite a few people who have worked here for over ten years. This kind of loyalty doesn’t occur unless a company has a strong culture and is a great place to work. We’re just thrilled that an organization such as Hyer is able to see this passion from our team, and we’re honored to be recognized as one of the top 100 companies creating the type of culture that makes employees want to work here.
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