What’s the Most Faith-friendly Fortune 500 Company?
Faith is making a comeback in the workplace, even in Fortune 500 companies. The shift comes as employers move away from DEI policies that made many uncomfortable talking openly about personal matters like faith.
The information technology company Accenture is the most faith-friendly workplace among Global Fortune 500 companies in 2025 for the third consecutive year. Equinix takes the number two spot, with Dell, Merck and Intuit rounding out the top five spots on the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation’s sixth annual Faith-Friendly Workplace REDI Index survey.
CMS Energy, Rolls-Royce and FirstEnergy also score highly among Fortune 500 companies for their faith-friendly policies and practices. Lexmark made its debut among Fortune 500 companies as a record number of global companies participated, including those based in the U.K., and for the first time, in the Middle East, with the entry of Future Pipes Industries.
The survey uses 11 indicators of best practices, including having faith-and-belief employee resource groups, sharing best practices with other companies and honoring holy days of their employees, among other accommodations such as dress and diet.
Most faith-friendly initiatives have been facilitated under corporate diversity initiatives, which are rapidly evolving in response to the current environment. Despite this, faith-oriented inclusion and belonging initiatives have grown in intensity in the first quarter of 2025.
U.S. corporations have scaled back their diversity programs, not only in response to the changing environment but also in response to Supreme Court rulings finding that some affirmative action programs ran afoul of law. Because most faith-friendly initiatives have been situated within these corporate programs, have they been scaled back along with the other initiatives? The empirical evidence is that this is not the case, at least not to any significant extent. In fact, there are some indications that the opposite may be true.
“It may be that the pro-religious liberty policies of the current administration may encourage more companies to look to their faith-based belonging and inclusion initiatives to help navigate the future,” lead researcher Brian Grim said.
The foundation is dedicated to educating the global business community, policymakers, non-government organizations and consumers about the positive power that faith and religious freedom for all (including those with no religious faith) have on workplaces and the economy.
–Alan Goforth
