Risepoint Wins Comparably Awards for Happiest Employees, Perks and Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

Three new honors, drawn from a year of anonymous employee ratings, bring the education technology company’s 2026 Comparably total to seven.

Risepoint, a global education technology company that supports online programs at more than 100 universities and colleges, has received three new Comparably Best Places to Work awards, for Happiest Employees, Best Perks & Benefits, and Best Work-Life Balance, the company announced on Sept. 29.

The awards are based entirely on anonymous feedback from current employees. Comparably, the employee review and salary platform owned by ZoomInfo, collected the ratings behind this cycle between Aug. 24, 2025, and Aug. 24, 2026. Each company’s responses were compared against those of organizations of similar size, and the final data set included 20 million ratings across 70,000 companies in the United States and Canada.

The fall honors follow four Comparably awards Risepoint received in June, for Best Career Growth, Best Leadership Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best Product & Design Teams. With the latest round, the company has collected seven Comparably awards in 2026.

What the three categories measure

Each award looks at a different slice of the employee experience.

Happiest Employees is the broadest of the three. Comparably evaluates it using employee feedback on the workplace environment, compensation and benefits, excitement about work and colleagues, connection to company goals, and company pride. A company can’t win it on pay alone, or on a single strong team. The category pulls together how people feel about the organization as a whole.

Best Perks & Benefits considers feedback about benefits, paid time off, and other offerings. Best Work-Life Balance looks at hours worked, breaks, time off, and burnout.

Taken together, the three categories describe the parts of a job that employees live with every week. Leadership and career-growth awards, which Risepoint picked up in June, speak to where a company is headed and whether people can advance inside it. The fall awards speak to what the work feels like on an ordinary Tuesday.

What the CEO said

Fernando Bleichmar, Risepoint CEO, tied the recognition to the kind of workplace the company is trying to build.

“We want our employees to be able to do impactful work while having the flexibility and support they need in their lives outside of work,” Bleichmar said in the announcement. “That means feeling connected to why their work matters, supported by their teams, and able to make space for the people and priorities that matter to them.”

He added that the awards carry particular weight because of where they come from. “These awards are especially meaningful because that feedback comes directly from our employees and reflects the experience we are working together to create every day,” he said.

A remote-first workforce across four countries

Risepoint has more than 1,400 employees, and it operates as a remote-first company with staff across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The company doesn’t maintain a single headquarters.

According to the announcement, Risepoint has continued to adjust how employees connect, grow, and work together. That includes flexibility in how and where employees work, benefits and resources aimed at employees at different stages of their lives and careers, and opportunities for employees to build relationships and contribute to the company’s culture.

A distributed model puts particular pressure on the categories Risepoint won this fall. When colleagues are spread across time zones, the boundary between work and home is easy to lose, and the informal connection that happens in an office has to be built on purpose. Strong ratings on work-life balance and employee happiness in a remote-first company suggest those efforts are registering with the people they’re meant to reach.

The work behind the ratings

Risepoint helps regional universities launch and grow online programs for working adults, with programs concentrated in nursing, healthcare, teaching, business, technology, and public service. Its employees provide technology, integrated marketing and initial student outreach, enrollment support, and student retention services. Curriculum, admissions, instruction, and financial aid are owned exclusively by each university, and courses are taught by the same faculty who teach on campus.

The company has supported more than 825,000 students across its university partnerships, and more than 90% of students in Risepoint-supported programs are working adults. Its stated mission is to help universities make education more accessible, modern, and impactful for everyone.

That student base connects to the awards in a direct way. Many of the people Risepoint employees serve are trying to balance full-time jobs, families, and coursework at the same time. The company’s own workforce was rated on a similar question: whether the job leaves room for a life outside it.

A busy year for the company

The awards arrive during a period of expansion. In August, Risepoint acquired Keypath Education’s North American operations, a deal that added more than 20 university partnerships and a clinical placement network built on relationships with nearly 15,000 healthcare sites and more than 28,000 preceptors nationwide. Keypath has supported more than 55,000 student placements in fields including speech-language pathology, counseling, clinical social work, and pharmacy.

“Universities are looking for ways to expand healthcare programs, serve more students, and help address workforce shortages in their communities,” Bleichmar said when that deal was announced.

The Comparably rating window closed on Aug. 24, less than a week after the acquisition was announced, so the new awards largely reflect how Risepoint employees rated the company in the year leading up to the deal.

A familiar list

Risepoint has shown up in these categories before. In 2024, the company appeared on Comparably’s lists for Happiest Employees, Best Company Perks & Benefits, and Best Company Work-Life Balance, along with Best Leadership Teams. That same year, Bleichmar received a Comparably Best CEO award that placed him in the top 5% of chief executives at large companies, and the company was honored for Best Company Culture, where it ranked in the top 10% of large companies.

In 2025, Risepoint received a Best Leadership Team award based on employee confidence in the company’s future and overall workplace engagement. It has also been recognized for Best Company Outlook.

Returning to the same three categories two years apart takes steady work, because Comparably’s ratings roll over every cycle. A new 12-month window means a new set of anonymous responses, and a company has to earn the result again from its own people.

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