Citizenship Awards
Honors and Accolades
Organizations around the world consistently recognize Microsoft as one of the leading global corporate citizens.
Global
- 2011 Named on The World’s Most Ethical Companies list, The Ethisphere Institute, New York
- 2011 Newsweek Green Rankings - Global Companies
- 2011 Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator Award
- 2011 Burson-Marsteller’s Global Corporate Reputation Index Top 25
- 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index component
- 2011 Named on The World’s Most Ethical Companies list, The Ethisphere Institute, New York
Africa
- 2011 Microsoft shared the prize for Best Corporate Social Responsibility with Olam/Nigeria at the fourth annual African Business Awards. The event, held at the Landmark Hotel in London, was attended by the President of Namibia and other dignitaries and African business leaders. Microsoft won the award for their work in the areas of Youth Employability, the UNHCR Community Technology Access program and Teacher Training & Curriculum.
Argentina
- 2008 Top 20 Great Places to Work
- 2008 #1 Best Companies with less than 200 employees - Ranking Apertura Magazine
Australia
- 2012 Awarded 2012 EOWA Employer of Choice for Women Citation
- 2009 Best Workplace Diversity Strategy 2009 – Australian HR Industry Awards
- 2009 #1 Women in Leadership Award – Diversity at Work
- 2009 #2 Work/Life Balance Award, Runner Up – Diversity at Work
- 2009 #1 Australian “Employer of Choice for Women,” #1 – Federal Government EOWA
- 2008 #2 Great Places to Work (250+ employees)
Austria
- 2012 Great Place to Work - Austria (Received special award for “Balance between Work & Family”)
- 2009 #4 Great Places to Work
Belgium
- 2012 Solidaritest Company Award'
- 2011 NFTE annual award for best corporate sponsors & supporters of NFTE work
- 2010 (Dec) Msft Belgium received a national volunteering award for their Child Online Safety volunteering from Business & Society Belgium as part of the EU supported Year of Volunteering awards.
- December 2010 Number 1 Employee Volunteering Awards for Belgium
- November 2009 Number 1 Top partner of NFTE (Network for Training and Entrepreneurship,www.nfte.be)
- 2009 #1 Great Places to Work
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2009 'Silver Drum' at 'Golden Drum' International Advertising Festival, Slovenia, for IPR campaign
Brazil
- 2010 1st place in the Category: Hardware & Software from Época Negócios Magazine Yearly Book – “The top prestigious company of Brazil” - Época Negócios Magazine
- 2010 1st place in Software Category: “The most admirable companies of Brazil” - Carta Capital Magazine
- 2010 MS won the best company of Technology and Schools Management systems of Top Education 2010 Award - Editora Segmento (publishing)
- 2010 Microsoft Office 2010 won the price of the Most Productive Software - Info Magazine
- 2010 Michel Levy won the best CEO of the year By Info Award - Revista Info Magazine
- 2010 MS was elected the 9th Organization to Work by “The Company Dream of Young People” - Cia de Talentos
- 2010 One of the best companies to work – 2010 Executives - Great Place to Work®
- 2009 Top 25 Great Places to Work
- 2009 100 Best Companies to Work for in Latin America
- 2008 #3 Great Places to Work
- 2008 #1 Great Places to Work – Best Place to Work for Women in IT and Telecom
- 2008 ECO Award for corporate citizenship initiatives
Bulgaria
- 2009 Bulgaria PR Prix; 'Best Campaign' award for Child Online Safety campaign, 2007-2008
- 2007-2008 Annual award for Socially Responsible Business of Business leaders; 'Investors in Society' category, for Child Online Safety campaign.
Canada
- 2012 #21 of the top 25 Best Places to Work for Women in Canada
- 2011 Microsoft Canada has been ranked #1 for companies with more than 1,000 employees on the 2011 Best Places To Work in Canada list
- 2009 Top 25 Great Places to Work
- 2008 Canada's Top 10 Employers for Young People
- 2008 Canada's Top 100 Employers
Chile
- 2010 Microsoft Chile recognized by the First Lady of Chilean government for Chile Connect @ Chile project
- 2008 Top 20 Great Places to Work
- 2008 #1 Best Corporate Social Responsibility (IT company category) and #3 overall- National Confederation of Business Associations
- 2008 Top 20 PW y Diario Financiero
China
- March 2011 Microsoft China is one of 5 multinational companies selected for the“Most Respected Company 10-year Achievement Award”, another influential award jointly published by Economic Observer and Beijing University.
- January 15, 2011 Microsoft was awarded “Driving Enterprise Informatization
in China” by CEO&CIO
- January 11, 2011 Microsoft China was recognized as one of “Best Cloud Computing
Solution Providers in 2010” sponsored by ChinaByte.
- December 16, 2010 Microsoft China won the “2010 Best CSR Award”
sponsored by IT Times Weekly.
- December 8, 2010 Microsoft China was awarded as one of the most outstanding enterprises
in the “2010 CBN CSR Ranking in China.”
- December 4, 2010 Microsoft China was recognized as “Most Influential Company
of the Decade in China Information Industry”, sponsored by CCID, the media
group affiliated with MIIT
- December 3, 2010 Microsoft China was recognized as one of “China’s 10 Best
Corporate Citizens”, sponsored by 21st Century Business Herald and 21st
Century Business Review.
- November 2010 Microsoft China was crowned one of the Best HRM Companies
of 2010, also winning the awards of Best Recruitment Management, Best Training
Program and Most Popular Employer 2010
- August 2010 Microsoft China was ranked #4 in ChinaHR.com’s 8th annual survey of
the “Best Employers in China” and became the most preferred MNC
to work for among Chinese university students.
- 2009 Microsoft China R&D Group (CRD) has been recognized by the Chinese government
and industry for its role in helping China’s software and information service outsourcing
industry achieve more than 24% growth in 2009 with the Industry Contribution Award
on December 23 at the ChinaSourcing 2009 Industry event.
- 2009 Red Cross Society Charity Award for disaster response and humanitarian aid
- 2008 CBN Corporate Social Responsibility Award
Columbia
- 2009 100 Great Places to Work in Latin America
- 2008 Top 10 Great Places to Work
Czech Republic
- 2010 Microsoft Czech was recognized the Best IT Company in the
Best Czech 100 competition on November 26th in Prague. Contact
Marketa Kuklova
- 2010 5th place in Top 10 best ICT Companies in Czech Republic
- 2009 #1 Hewitt Associates Best Employers in Europe
- 2009 Strategic Partner, Czech Presidency of the European Union
- GM, Jane Gilson, awarded LadyPro2009. Awarded to women leaders for extraordinary
success in management and leadership
- 2008 Top Corporate Philanthropist Award - Donors Forum
- European Corporate Responsibility Awards, 2008; Microsoft Czech was 1 of 3 national
finalists and placed 8th among the 21 European finalists.
- 2008 Top Corporate Philanthropist; 'Long term projects' category
- Top 10 Best Companies to work for in Czech Republic; Microsoft placed fifth
Denmark
- 2011 Microsoft Denmark won a special CSR award for its diversity policy
- 2009 Microsoft Denmark was recognized as the Best IT Workplace, Denmark 2009 by
the Great Place to Work® Institute Denmark in collaboration with Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin.
- 2009 #2 Great Places to Work
Egypt
- 2009 Hewitt Best Employers in the Middle East
Estonia
- 2009 Most Child and Youth Friendly Company in Tallin, due to COS activity
Europe
- 2010 Microsoft Europe was recognized by the Great Place to Work Institute with the Best Place to Work Europe award for the third year in a row!
- 2009 #1 - Great Places to Work, Europe
Finland
- 2010 The Finnish Business Society, the national entity managing the year of volunteering
recognized Msft Finland with a national award and Honorary
Mention for their “excellent, consistent volunteering program” on Child
Online Safety.
- 2009 #2 Great Places to Work
- 2008 #4 Great Places to Work
France
- 2009 #3 Great Places to Work
- 2008 #5 Great Places to Work
Germany
- 2009 #4 Great Places to Work
- 2008 #7 Great Places to Work
Greece
- Parliament award for Greek 2008 Imagine winner; 'Excellence in International Student Competition' awards
Gulf - Dubai
- 2010 Microsoft Gulf received the Arab Corporate Social Responsibility project of the Year from the Union of Arab ICT Association (IJMA3) in recognition of its commitment
to empowering women through technology across the Mena region.
- 2009 Hewitt Best Employers in the Middle East
Hong Kong
- 2011 MS Hong Kong received the "Class of Good" Wastewi$e Label
- 2010-2011 Caring Company Five Years Plus Award by the Hong Kong Council of Social
Service for 2010-2011 in recognition of MSHK’s commitment of being a corporate citizen
in the past year.
- 2010 Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence the Carbon "Less" 14% Label
- 2010 Platinum Award for Green Office Management at the Green Council’s Hong Kong
Green Awards 2010
- 2010 Green Purchasewise Bronze Award for upholding our green procurement policy
and paper and paper products procurement policy with carbon reduction targets clearly
set and met.
Hungary
- 2009 Dedicated Supporter of Ethical Business Conduct Award, from Piac & Profit
Iceland
- 2009 VR Company of the Year
India
- 2012 Microsoft India received the Environment Management Award at The Green IT Initiative and IT Excellence Awards
- 2009 Microsoft India received the Jury’s Choice Award in the “Digital Learning-Private Sector Initiative of the Year” category in the e-Rajasthan Awards 2009, for Project
Jyoti / MSSUP CTSP.
- 2008 #1 Best Companies to Work for in India - Business Today
- 2008 #1 Most Preferred Employers in the Top 50 India Engineering Colleges - Economic
Times/AC Nielsen
Indonesia
- 2009 Winner of HR Excellence - SWAnetwork Corporate Activities Management
Ireland
- 2012 2012 Green Mover Award
- 2011 Responsible Business Standard Award
- 2011 Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Award (2011 Chambers Ireland CSR Awards)
- 2009 Microsoft Ireland datacenter receives
Datacentre Leaders Award 2009 for Innovation in the Mega Data Centre category
for Microsoft’s new Dublin datacenter from Data Center Dynamics magazine.
- 2009 #1 Great Places to Work
Italy
- 2009 #2 Great Places to Work
Austria
- 2009 #4 Great Places to Work
Japan
- 2009 #3 Great Places to Work
- 2008 #1 Great Places to Work
Korea
- February 11, 2011 Minister Award from Ministry of Unification - Special recognition
on continuous support for the North Korea refugee’s settlement efforts (UP) by Microsoft
Korea
- June 8, 2010 Prime Minister Award on CSR - Celebrating 22nd Information Culture
Award, special recognition on continuous efforts for ICT education(UP) by Microsoft
Korea Awardee; Microsoft Korea(Kim James, Korea GM, got award at an official ceremony
presented by Prime Minister
- September 25, 2009 Minister Award from Ministry of Health and Welfare - Celebrating
the 13th “Senior Day” of Korea, special recognition on continuous efforts for senior
ICT education(UP) by Microsoft Korea Awardee; CSR team of Microsoft Korea
Malta
- Ruban d'Honneur, European Business Awards 2009; 'ICT effectiveness' Award
Mexico
- 2009 Empresa Familiarmente Responsable
- 2009 Empresa Socialmente Responsable
Middle East and Africa
- 2010 Microsoft was recognized with the Opening Minds Corporate Leadership award
by the
Institute of International Education for our support of the
Women in Technology(WIT) Program under the Middle East Partnership Initiative.
- 2009 Empresa Familiarmente Responsable
- 2009 Empresa Socialmente Responsable
Netherlands
- 2009 #1 Great Places to Work
Norway
- 2009 #1 Great Places to Work
- 2008 #1 Great Places to Work
Philippines
- 2008 Best Workplace Practice - Asian CSR Awards
Peru
- 2008 #4 Best Places to Work
Poland
- 2011 Great Places to Work - Microsoft Poland was awarded 1st place in the "Employers
up to 500 staff" category
- 2011 Great Places to Work - Microsoft Poland received the "Socially Responsible
Company" award for its employee volunteering programme
- 2010 Microsoft Poland was awarded with the Best Educational Initiative of the Year
by the Minister of National Education for their Child Online Safety Citizenship
Campaign “3…2…1…Internet.”
- 2010 Microsoft Poland was recognized for building Citizenship standards
in Poland by the Responsible Business Forum at the 10th anniversary Jubilee
Gala in Warsaw on December 17th. Contact Marketa Kuklova
- 2010 COS Employee Volunteering campaign one of 3 best CSR campaigns in Poland, at
Golden Clips Award
- 2009 Achieved 2nd place in national CSR report
- 2008 Golden Clips; 'CSR award' category, first place
- Report: Responsible Business Foundation. Distinguished in two categories; Work-life
balance, and Society – Fostering entrepreneurship
- Report: PWC and Responsible Business Forum CSR report; ICT overall category, Microsoft
was placed second
- Strategic Partner, Council of Europe 60th Anniversary
- Diploma for Continuation of activities supporting sustainable business development,
at annual CSR conference
Portugal
- 2009 #1 Great Places to Work
- 2008 #1 Great Places to Work
- 2008 #1 Best Company for Women (Great Places to Work)
Romania
- 2010 Microsoft Romania received the recognition from IDG: IT Excellence
Award for the Online Services launch in 2010. Contact
Todi Pruteanu
- 2009 and 2010 EU Data Privacy Day; Winning school entry for 'Surf the Net – think
Privacy' competition
Russia
- 2010 Microsoft Russia received the CEE Employee Volunteering Award and became “Best
in Class” example of employee engagement around Microsoft's citizenship priorities.
- 2009 Microsoft placed first in 'Best Place to Work' competition
Slovakia
- 2010 Microsoft Slovakia wins the award for corporate philanthropy - Top Corporate
Philanthropy Award 2010
- Via Bona Slovakia Award for CSR; 'Courage to support an innovative project implemented
in a little area or unconventional form'
- 2009 Top Philanthropist, in SME category, from Slovak Donor's Forum
- 2009 Recognized as Best Corporate Citizen at Capital Careers CSR Conference
Slovenia
- 2010 GM, Matej Potokar, received Primus Award, from PR Society of Slovenia. This
is the only Slovenian professional award, recognising excellence in leadership and
communication
- 2009 Best Place to Work competition; first place for second year running
Spain
- 2009 #1 Great Places to Work
Sri Lanka
- 2010 Microsoft Sri Lanka won the best corporate citizens award for Training and
Education; for the second time in four years. Additionally, Microsoft Sri Lanka
was the 1st runner up in the overall category of 10 best cooperate citizens for
the work well done in Community Affairs, DPE and PIL.
Sweden
- 2009 #2 Great Places to Work
Switzerland
- 2009 #3 Great Places to Work
Thailand
- 2010 AMCHAM’s Corporate Social Responsibility Excellence Recognition for 2010
Turkey
- 2009 Hewitt Best Employers in the Middle East
Ukraine
- 2011 Equal Opportunities: Best Employer 2010, Ukrainian National Competition, Microsoft Ukraine
- 2010 Microsoft Ukraine won the second place among the SMB segment (#1 in
IT!) according to the 2010 Hewitt International Best Employer
study
- 2010 Microsoft Ukraine won the top honors, across all nomination categories of National
CSR Case Contest for “Onlandia” children’s safety on the Internet program. Contact
Courtney Zukoski
- 2010 Microsoft Ukraine won 1st place Philanthropist of the Year 2010
contest in the category “Multinational Company” for the work in support the non-governmental
sector through our Software Donation Program and NGO Connection Day events. Contact
Courtney Zukoski
- 2009 Won 'Grand Prix' prize at Advertising Festival, for PiL Social advertising
relating to Child Online Safety
United Kingdom
- 2009 Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For
United States
- 2012 Ranked 8th in "Top 50 Employer" in Woman Engineer Magazine
- 2012 Ranked 7th in 22nd Annual “Top 50 Employers” in Minority Engineer Magazine.
- 2012 Ranked 2nd in "Top 50 Employers" for Equal Opportunity Magazine’s 2012 Readers" Choice awards
- 2012 Ranked 10th in 21st Annual “Top 50 Employers” in CAREERS & the disABLED Magazine
- 2012 Named Leading Green Power Purchaser by the EPA
- 2012 Microsoft recognized as one of the Recyclers of the Year by Wasghington State Recycling Association
- 2012 Microsoft inclusion in FTSE4Good Index Series
- 2012 Corporate Responsibility Magazine - Microsoft named among the Top 3 Best Corporate Citizens for 2012
- 2012 100% rating: Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) Corporate Equality Index rating – 7th consecutive year
- 2011 Ranked 7th in the 21st Annual “Top 50 Employers” in Minority Engineer Magazine
- 2011 Ranked 3rd in the "Top 50 Employer" in Workforce Diversity for Engineering & IT Professionals magazine
- 2011 Ranked 2nd in the 20th Annual “Top 50 Employers” in CAREERS & the disABLED Magazine
- 2011 Out & Proud Corporate Counsel Award for Microsoft's Legal and Corporate Affairs Department, National LGBT Bar Association
- 2011 Newsweek Green Rankings - U.S. Companies
- 2011 Named Best Diversity Company: Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology Readers’ Choice Survey
- 2011 Microsoft Named one of the 2011 Top Green-IT Vendors by Computerworld
- 2011 Microsoft listed within top four on Computerworld's 2011 Top Green-IT Vendors
- 2011 Corporate Secretary magazine award for Best Overall Governance, Compliance and Ethics at a Large Cap Company
- 2011 100% rating: Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) Corporate Equality Index rating – 6th consecutive year
- 2011 Microsoft lands on list of Most Ethical Companies. In their 5th annual list
of model corporate citizens, Forbes picked Microsoft as one of
"The World's Most Ethical Companies"
- 2011 Microsoft United States Chicago has been ranked #3 in this year's Crain’s Chicago
Business Best Places to Work survey.
- 2010 Charlotte Campus, United Way Million Dollar Spirit Corporate Award
- 2010 Microsoft Corporation was honored by the
Women's Refugee Commission for Unlimited Potential and KIND (Kids in Need of
Defense).
- 2010 Microsoft Corporation was recognized by the Puget Sound Business Journal with
the Healthy Community Corporate Champion award, supporting education and the Top
Corporate Philanthropist award in the large company category.
- 2010 Microsoft United States Charlotte, NC was recognized for their contributions
by United Way of Central Carolinas.
- 2010 POETA (Partnership in Opportunities for Employment through
Technology in the Americas) achieved recognition from the UNDP as a
best practice contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development
Goals.
- 2010 Microsoft United States The
School of the Future was celebrated for the success of the 2010 graduating class
who will all be attending college.
- 2010 Microsoft United States Houston, TX was recognized by the Houston Business
Journal’s on the 2010 list of Best Places To Work.
- 2010 Microsoft received a special recognition from the
International Youth Foundation (IYF) for our long term partnership with IYF
to empower youth around the world
- 2009 Top Corporate Philanthropist - Puget Sound Business Journal
- 2009 Top 50 Best Corporate Citizens - CRO Magazine
- 2008 Top 100 Best Companies to Work For
- 2008 #1 Corporate Media Reputation Index
- 2008 #1 Company investing in the communities in which they operate - US Chamber
- 2008 Top 125 Training Organizations - Training Magazine
- 2007 100 Best Companies to Work, Fortune and Great Place to Work Institute
- 2007 America's Most Admired Companies, Fortune
- 2007 Best Workplaces for Commuters, United States Environmental Protection Agency
and United States Department of Transportation
- 2007 Corporate Equality Index, 100% rating for third consecutive year, Human Rights
Campaign Foundation
- 2007 Human Rights Campaign Foundation's list of 2007 Best Companies for GLBT
Equality and 2007 Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality
- 2007 Ideal Employer - American MBA Edition, Universum Survey
- 2007 Ideal Employer - American Undergraduate Edition, Universum Survey
- 2007 Ideal Employer - American Diversity Edition, Universum Survey
- 2007 Top 50 Employers, Careers & the Disabled
- 2007 Top Employers, The Black Collegian Online
- 2007 U.S. Chamber's Business Civic Leadership Center's (BCLC) Corporate
Stewardship Award
- 2006 100 Best Companies, Working Mother
- 100 Best Corporate Citizens, The CRO
- 100 Top MBA Employers, Fortune
- Done Deals, Women's Business Enterprise National Council (Northwest)
- Summit Award, United Way Spirit of America
- Ernest P. Bicknell Award, American Red Cross
- Excellence in Workplace Volunteer Programs, National Points of Light Award
