Friday / May 23. 2025
menu-logo menu-logo
brand-logo
Subscribe
Subscribe
Friday / May 23. 2025
  • Read
    • Daily News
      • Financial
      • Insights
      • U.S.
      • International
    • Digital Issue
    • Executive Announcements
    • Cover Stories
    • Feature Articles
      • Exclusive Interviews
    • International Focus
    • Company Spotlights
    • Forward Thinking
    • Legal Briefs
    • Insights from the Outside
    • For You | For Your Field
    • Working Smart
  • Listen & Watch
    • Direct Approach Podcast
    • SHIFT podcast
    • The DSN Podcast
  • Attend
    • DSU Europe 2025
    • DSU Fall 2025
  • Achieve
    • Global 100 List
    • Bravo Awards
    • Best Places to Work
    • Legends
  • Research
    • Stock Watch
    • The DSN Guide
    • Supplier Directory
    • Stock Ticker
    • Resources
  • Engage
    • Supporter Program
    • VIP Text Alerts
  • About
    • About DSN
    • Subscribe
    • Advertise
    • Connect
  • Search
Subscribe

2018 Best Places to Work in Direct Selling – USANA

BY DSN Staff | April 01, 2018 | read / Feature Articles

“I wanted to create a workplace where employees never have to feel like they have to put their work above the needs of their family.”
—Kevin Guest, CEO

Company / USANA
Headquarters / Salt Lake City, Utah
Number of Full-Time Employees / 818
Year Founded / 1992

What makes your company one of the best places to work in direct selling?
USANA strives to offer its more than 800 Utah employees an unbeatable workplace. The company offers impressive benefits, including free onsite workout facilities and a personal fitness trainer, on-site CrossFit, yoga, and bootcamp classes, a generous annual profit-sharing program, free company products, excellent health and life insurance packages and regular health fairs and voluntary fitness contests. These benefits are designed to provide USANA employees with an environment that makes them feel happy and excited to go to work every day.

How does your company support team members in their personal and professional development?
Our tuition reimbursement program pays for undergraduate and graduate school for employees, provided that the courses/degree is related to the employee’s job and/or career path or is in the field related to or of interest to USANA. We also offer monthly classes for employees where they can learn anything from the importance of heart health, to how a 401(k) works, to how to buy your first home.

How does your company give back to the community?


 Through our nonprofit charity organization, the True Health Foundation, the company has been able to execute several local charity initiatives this past year. 

  • On Arbor Day, a large group of employees helped clean up a local park and plant dozens of trees.
  • On World Service Week, groups of employees were allowed to choose a service activity that spoke to them the most and spend a day volunteering instead of being in the office.
  • USANA raises money throughout the year to help the students at a local school with daily necessities that they might not normally have access to.
  • On the National Day of Giving, the USANA True Health Foundation, with the help of the Children’s Hunger Fund, hosted a Food Pak assembly in the home office warehouse. Throughout the day, employees and local Associates worked side by side packing boxes with fruits, vegetables, pastas, and protein, and prepping them to be shipped to those in need around the world. By the end of the day more than 300 employees and Associates boxed up 100,000 meals. Twenty thousand are going to emergency pantries throughout the Salt Lake area, and the remaining 80,000 are being spread across the globe to families who need them the most.

What is the single most fun day of the year at your company? Why?

There are a lot of fun days to choose from at USANA, but profit sharing day seems to get the employees the most excited. Every year in February when USANA announces its financial results from the previous year, it also announces how much of USANA’s profits from net sales can be shared with employees. Profit sharing 2018 gave employees payment of 10.1 percent of their annual salary, which equaled an additional five weeks of pay. So you can imagine how much excitement is generated by profit sharing day.

What is something new that you’ve added in 2018 to enhance your workplace?
At the February quarterly meeting in 2018, USANA announced some exciting new benefits to employees that are designed to give employees more time with their families and to create an even happier workplace. USANA added 16 additional hours of PTO for employees that is designated as “family hours.” This allows employees to spend time throughout the year with their families without worrying about using vacation or sick hours. On top of the family hours, employees were also given two additional “floating holidays” that can be used as vacation. But the biggest announcement was that USANA is now offering 12 weeks of paid leave for primary caregivers (typically maternity leave) and six weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers (typically paternity leave).


 

 Best Places To Work In Direct Selling 2018 Honorees!

Pick up the April 2018 issue here in which this article appeared.

Posted in Feature Articles and tagged AdvoCare, benefits, Best Places to Work, Best Places to Work in Direct Selling, community, culture, Direct Selling, Direct Selling News, DSN, MLM, Multi-Level Marketing, personal development, professional development, workplace.
Related Articles
OMNILIFE | People Taking Care of People May 22, 2025

OMNILIFE | People Taking Care of People

Read more
Jim Northrop | More than a Mentor May 17, 2025

Jim Northrop | More than a Mentor

Read more
The Asian Pacific Advantage May 11, 2025

The Asian Pacific Advantage

Read more
brand-logo
The News You Need.
The Name You Trust.
Subscribe

Breaking global news, emerging trends and powerful stories conveniently curated to help direct selling executives stay informed, engaged and a step ahead.

  • Read
  • Listen & Watch
  • Attend
  • Achieve
  • Research
  • About
  • Connect
5717 Legacy Drive
Suite 250
Plano, Texas 75024
info@directsellingnews.com
Copyright 2025 Direct Selling News | All Rights Reserved
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. By clicking “Accept All”, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. However, you may visit "Cookie Settings" to provide a controlled consent.
Cookie SettingsAccept All
Manage consent

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
CookieDurationDescription
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional11 monthsThe cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
viewed_cookie_policy11 monthsThe cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.
Functional
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
Others
Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.
SAVE & ACCEPT