Announcement  //   June 23, 2026

Announcing the 2026 Modern Retail Top Workplaces

Modern Retail Top Workplaces is an annual list of the best brands and retailers to work for. This year’s honorees are setting the standard for workplace excellence, leading with purpose, investing in their people and building cultures that drive both employee success and business growth.

Modern Retail’s Top Workplaces:

Boll & Branch
Boll & Branch is a purpose-driven, high-growth home brand that’s redefining luxury through transparency and integrity.

Carvana
Carvana’s mission is to change how people buy and sell cars — driven by its passionate team.

Smalls
Smalls is a brand built for cats and the people who love them.

Room & Board
Room & Board is an employee-owned modern furniture retailer based in Minneapolis with more than 90% U.S.-made products.

Little Spoon
Little Spoon is America’s No. 1 DTC baby and kids’ food brand.

Glossy’s Top Workplaces:

e.l.f. Beauty
e.l.f. Beauty’s mission is to make the best of beauty accessible to every eye, lip and face.

Sephora
Sephora is the world’s leading global prestige beauty retail brand.

PATTERN Beauty
PATTERN Beauty is the leading brand created for curly, coily & tight-textured hair, redefining beauty standards with their award-winning products, tools & rituals.

Centric Brands
Centric Brands is a global lifestyle brand collective with expertise in design, sourcing, marketing and e-commerce.

Vytalogy Wellness
Vytalogy is a modern wellness company on a mission to fuel a life of Ultimate Wellness for all.

Digiday Top Agencies:

Butler/Till
Butler/Till is an independent, women-owned and women-led, employee-owned marketing agency built on a culture of collaboration, accountability and purpose. 

Lighthouse Creative
Lighthouse Creative is a creative agency focused on long-term relationships, steady growth and building a place where people want to work. 

EvolveMKD
EvolveMKD is a female-owned PR and digital marketing agency founded in 2014 with a client-first approach.

Collective Measures
Collective Measures is an employee-owned media and analytics agency operating with focus and long-term purpose.

Horizon Media
Horizon Media has a people-first culture, grounded in independence, inclusion, integrity and innovation.

Digiday Top Publishers:

My Code
My Code is a media and marketing company dedicated to reaching the fastest-growing audience segments: multicultural and multigenerational consumers.

Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers is one of the five largest U.S. publishers and the only of the Big Five that remains a family-owned business.

Understood.org
Understood.org is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the 70 million people in the U.S. with learning and thinking differences, like ADHD and dyslexia. 

Digiday Top Tech Providers:

Hue
Hue is a shoppable UGC engine that uses AI-powered video technology to drive sales and customer discovery.

Rakuten Viber
Rakuten Viber is a global leader in secure communication, committed to building a world-class workplace that drives meaningful human connection.

Taboola
Taboola is empowering businesses to grow beyond search and social through its performance advertising platform.

Mobsta
Mobsta is the leading geo-behavioral intelligence media partner, helping brands find moments that matter to them and to their audiences across digital spaces worldwide.

Attain
Attain is North America’s most comprehensive and trusted source for live purchase data.