In May 2026, ChooseMyCompany sent a survey to everyone at EyeSeeTea. Anonymous, confidential, no coaching beforehand. The results came back, and we received two certifications: the HappyAtWork label and the Employees Platinum, their highest recognition tier.
What ChooseMyCompany actually measures
ChooseMyCompany is an independent organisation that certifies employee experience based exclusively on anonymous feedback. Their model, the EmployeesIndex, evaluates 24 dimensions grouped into two areas: resources (having what you need to do your work) and connection (wanting to contribute more to the organisation). It covers professional development, working environment, leadership, recognition, purpose, and sustainability.
The Platinum is awarded to organisations that score 400 out of 500 points and meet full correspondence with the 24-question model. The bar is high by design. What makes it meaningful is that every single point comes from people on our team answering honestly, without knowing how their responses would be used.
Who we are
EyeSeeTea is a fully remote team of around 18 people, distributed across different countries and time zones. We work in digital health and humanitarian technology, building systems for organisations like WHO, UNICEF, and Médecins Sans Frontières. We do not have a physical office. We do not have a ping pong table or a rooftop terrace.
What we do have is a set of deliberate choices about how we want to work together, documented in a working culture that we keep revisiting and improving. Our working principles are not a list of values on a wall. They are operational commitments: how we communicate, how we take ownership, how we ask for help, how we stay honest with each other even when it is uncomfortable.
What the score tells us
Looking at the dimensions ChooseMyCompany evaluates, we recognise ourselves. The areas where we know we are strong: purpose, working environment, the quality of human relationships. The areas where we know we still have work to do: recognition, career progression clarity, salary alignment in a financially constrained year. This result does not tell us we have figured it out. It tells us where we stand, and that is more useful.
We work in contexts where technical decisions have real consequences on people’s lives. The data systems we build are used by health workers and programme managers operating under pressure, often in low-resource settings. We have always believed that the quality of what we build is connected to the quality of how we work. A team that feels heard, supported, and fairly treated builds better software. That is not a hypothesis. It is something we see in our work every day.
Receiving these certifications from ChooseMyCompany is external validation of something we already believed. More importantly, it is a prompt to keep going: to keep listening to the people on our team, to keep improving what is not yet where we want it, and to keep treating culture with the same care we put into our systems.
