The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today released its annual report on LGBT inclusion in major companies and law firms across the nation. The 2016 index had a record 407 businesses that earned a top score of 100 percent and the distinction of “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality,” among them Principal Financial Group Inc. and Rockwell Collins Inc. In total, 851 companies were rated in 2016, up from 781 in the 2015 report. “Corporate America has long been a leader on LGBT equality, from advocating for marriage equality to expanding essential benefits to transgender employees,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “But this year, many leading U.S. companies have broken new ground by expanding explicit non-discrimination protections to their LGBT workers around the globe.”