100 Best Companies or Employers To Work For
FORTUNE lists the 100 Best Companies To Work For US Employees.
It’s heartening to learn that there are companies out there taking extra miles for their employees to make working an enjoyable activity.
Here’s the list, and highlights are my personal comments:
1 SAS
2 Boston Consulting Group
3 Wegmans Food Markets
4 Google
5 NetApp
6 Zappos.com – Even by reading Delivering Happiness Book, by Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh it’s not surprising that Zappos is a fun workplace. Being No 6 in the list only prove its truth all the more.
7 Camden Property Trust
8 Nugget Marke
9 Recreational Equipment (REI)
10 DreamWorks Animation SKG
11 Edward Jones
12 Scottrade
13 Alston & Bird
14 Robert W. Baird
15 Mercedes-Benz USA – Can you imagine a car company providing generous telecommuting policy? Just goes to show productivity and efficiency is more important than being in office 9 to 5. Of course on-site car wash is well appreciated when not telecommuting.
16 JM Family Enterprises
17 USAA
18 Stew Leonard’s
19 The Methodist Hospital System
20 Cisco – 85 percent of employees work from home! With high pay and other perks, no wonder nobody’s complaining.
21 Container Store
22 DPR Construction
23 Goldman Sachs
24 Whole Foods Market
25 Umpqua Bank
26 Plante & Moran
27 CHG Healthcare Services
28 Bingham McCutchen
29 Quicken Loans
30 NuStar Energy
31 W. L. Gore & Associates
32 Chesapeake Energy
33 Qualcomm – Free lunch seems to be a trend of late in IT companies. Who says there are no free lunch?
34 QuikTrip
35 Genentech
36 Southern Ohio Medical Center
37 Scripps Health
38 PCL Construction
39 American Fidelity Assurance
40 Balfour Beatty Construction
41 Devon Energy
42 Baptist Health South Florida
Healthcare and medical centers seems to be a good place to work in.
43 Shared Technologies
44 Intuit
45 TDIndustries
46 Johnson Financial Group – Six whole weeks of paternity leave! Almost half a mother. $10k per year in tuition reimbursement, this of course encourages further education among employees.
47 Novo Nordisk
48 Build-A-Bear Workshop
49 American Express
50 Baker Donelson
51 Intel
52 Salesforce.com
53 Four Seasons Hotels – Employees stay free in any of its hotels. No sweat when travelling.
54 Atlantic Health
55 Perkins Coie
56 Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company
57 Aflac
58 General Mills
59 Hasbro – Half-day Fridays, evolution from dress-down Fridays?
60 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
61 Mayo Clinic
62 OhioHealth
63 Deloitte
64 FactSet Research Systems
65 Adobe Systems
66 EOG Resources
67 Publix Super Markets
68 Stryker
69 Mattel – Toy makers like to have Half-day Fridays eh?
70 S.C. Johnson & Son
71 Marriott International
72 Microsoft
73 PricewaterhouseCoopers
74 Nordstrom
75 Arkansas Children’s Hospital
76 Gilbane
77 Ernst & Young
78 SRC/SRCTec
79 National Instruments
80 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
81 CarMax
82 Teach For America
83 Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants – Pet hotel anyone?
84 Bright Horizons Family Solutions
85 Booz Allen Hamilton
86 KPMG – Half-day Fridays, only in the summer though.
87 Men’s Wearhouse
88 Meridian Health
89 Brocade Communications Systems
90 CH2M Hill
91 The Everett Clinic
92 Rackspace Hosting
93 J. M. Smucker
94 Aéropostale
95 Morningstar – No limit on paid vacations or sick time? Of course, this is US. 🙂
96 MITRE
97 Darden Restaurants
98 Starbucks
99 Accenture
100 W. W. Grainger
Let your boss or company know, they can learn something from these companies.
Help make your workplace a better and fun place to be at. 🙂