Has it happened to you; the job you loved the most was at a company that was really proactive towards it employees and gave you creative freedom as well flexible timings, even if it didn’t pay as well as your current job, that ironically is making you miserable? That’s because very often the jobs we enjoy the most is in one of the best companies to work for – the kind that really cares for its employees and believes that the way forward is through good human resource management.
One Way to Ensure You Land a Job You Will Enjoy
While we are not advising you quit your job this very instance, the next time you are on a job hunt, it would be a good idea to look for positions in companies known to be the best companies to work for – though what makes a company good for you is a completely individual choice.[1] For young mothers it might be an onsite crèche or playschool, or even extended maternity benefits; for some it may be that the company has a very open non-discrimination policies and yet for some it may be the health food cafeteria and onsite gym.
The Best Companies to Work for: the Top 100 List
So taking cue from various business magazines Top 100 list, here are the Top 100 Best Companies To Work For, in the US – for these are the companies who believe that happy employees make for productive companies [2]. We list out the companies as well as the reasons as to what makes them so great to work for, in alphabetic order…
1. Accenture
Industry: Professional Services
USP: Flexible scheduling and endless learning opportunities while working on cutting edge projects make Accenture one of the best companies to work for.
2. Activision Blizzard
Industry: Media
USP: Want to be 100% nerd? This gaming and entertainment company lets you geek out in employee affinity groups, which include fencing, brew mastery, skateboarding or even juggling, clay modeling, and more. Fun, geek style!
3. Acuity
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: Join this Company if you want a 45-foot climbing wall and a jeans-friendly dress policy at office, plus a sense of purpose and giving.
4. Adobe Systems
Industry: Information Technology
USP: Employees at this software company praise the interesting work and its passion for arts and creativity.
5. Aflac
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: A family feeling is how the employees describe the workplace with a strong, positive culture…
6. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: This financial services company has employee appreciation month with awards ceremonies and chair massages and annual perks like pet insurance, on-site childcare, and discounts on furniture.
7. Alston & Bird
Industry: Professional Services
USP: 15 paid hours a year for community service and mock courtroom training, make this law firm a fun and collaborative workplace.
8. American Express
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: 100 days paid parental leave (and up to 140 days for birth moms) and a chance to work for a respected brand makes employees feel that their jobs are a higher calling.
9. American Fidelity Insurance
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: Pension plans, cushy 401(k) contributions, and bonuses for everyone as well as an on-site car wash, prescriptions at the medical clinic, and a personal trainer at the office gym. Need more?
10. ARI
Industry: Professional Services
USP: Employee training is a high point considering in 2016 this company reimbursed some $1.4 million in tuition along with ample opportunities for growth and promotion.
11. Atlantic Health Systems
Industry: Healthcare
USP: In this New Jersey–based hospital system company, employees get up to $5,000 in annual tuition reimbursements, and courses are even offered on-site.
12. AT&T
Industry: Telecommunications
USP: When this telecom giant underwent changes, it retrained its workers without any big layoffs and filled more than 40% of its open positions with internal hiring.
13. Autodesk
Industry: Information Technology
USP: To encourage creative thinking, employees who have new patents granted are given bonuses of up to $2,000.
14. Baker Donelson
Industry: Professional Services
USP: Perks include bonuses when the firm has a good year (and not just for attorneys), plus free parking (or full reimbursements for public transportation) as well as a goodwill atmosphere.
15. Baird
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: Looking for one of the best companies to work for? Well, Baird has a “no asshole” policy and is open enough that two-thirds of employees are shareholders, making everyone feel like equal contributors and receivers as well.
16. Baptist Health South Florida
Industry: Health Care
USP: Zero co-pays for in-network doctor visits, a fund for staff in times of need, and employee celebrations make this hospital one of the best companies to work for.
17. Bright Horizons Family Solutions
Industry: Training & Education
USP: The employees feel they are shaping children’s future which is rewarding enough and then the company also offers workers a 50% discount at Bright Horizons centers.
18. Build-A-Bear Workshop
Industry: Retail
USP: So work here feels like an awesome adventure and employees feel as if they sell happiness!
19. Burns & McDonnell
Industry: Building Services
USP: It’s a 100%-employee-owned engineering, architecture, and construction firm that exemplifies teamwork…
20. Cadence
Industry: Electronics
USP: With more than 40% employees having stayed on for 40 years or more, this semiconductor technology company regularly conducts analyses to ensure that women employees are getting paid fairly; rewarding employees solely on what they deliver.
21. Camden Property Trust
Industry: Real Estate
USP: Employees claim this to be one company that welcomes you and your ideas with open arms and you can also get up to $4,500 year for your kids in paid college costs!
22. Capital One
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: Free Wi-Fi and coffee apart, staffers are encouraged to break out of the mold and think innovatively when it comes to baking and financial services.
23. CarMax
Industry: Retail
USP: All new hires are assigned mentors when they start which makes for a nurturing work environment in which employees can naturally excel.
24. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Industry: Health Care
USP: A children’s hospital that has creates a fun and positive environment for its employees so that that they always do their best to keep kids health and safe.
25. CHG Healthcare Services
Industry: Professional Services
USP: To make its employees (medical staff on hire) happy, healthy, and satisfied, the company offers health assessments, a free on-site health clinic and even pet insurance.
26. Cisco
Industry: Information Technology
USP: So winners of its hackathon receive $25,000 in prize money (and $25,000 in seed money) and employees logged 227,213 volunteer hours just for the freedom to innovate.
27. Cooley
Industry: Professional Services, Law
USP: Want to wear jeans to a law firm? Welcome to Cooley, where there is not hierarchy per se either.
28. Credit Acceptance
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: The company motto of this auto-lender is that everyone is values and there is flexible scheduling and growth opportunities that prove it.
29. David Weekley Homes
Industry: Real Estate & Construction
USP: A welcoming, team-centric culture, this company conducts interviews with job candidates’ families to answer all the questions you might have.
30. Deloitte
Industry: Professional Services
USP: Employees have 42 paid days off on average per year, and there’s a sabbatical program to make all the staff feel very wanted and rewarded indeed.
31. Delta Airlines
Industry: Transportation
USP: Generous flight privileges and healthy profit-sharing, is all part of the company’s caring family spirit.
32. Edward Jones
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: So this investment firm is the place to be if you are looking for job security since more than 30% of hiring happens internally. The reasons why 3,000 of its employees have been there more than two decades!
33. Encompass Home Health & Hospice
Industry: Health Care
USP: A company with a compassionate culture and a very approachable CEO who truly cares.
34. EY
Industry: Professional Services
USP: Never before has a firm offered such flexible schedules, such that all its employees rave about being able to enjoy life’s little things freely and even get 16 weeks parental leave!
35. FedEx
Industry: Transportation
USP: Hard work is consistently reflected in raises, bonuses, and promotions and other great benefits as well for part-timers too.
36. First American Financial Corporation
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: 1,100 team members of this financial company have participated in 36 breast-cancer races and helped raise more than $217,000 for research and treatment of the disease last year. Oh and employees can purchase company stock at a 15% discount.
37. Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts
Industry: Hospitality
USP: Employees are proud of stellar customer service and every employee gets to stay at Four Seasons hotels on vacation for free with 50% off on food as well.
38. Genentech
Industry: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
USP: If pharmaceutical is your cup of tea, Genentech is the place to be. The employees claim to work in a casual intensity vibe, and making drugs for life-threatening illnesses in a fun way is their mission.
39. Goldman Sachs:
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: You do well, you are rewarded in this meritocratic investment banking firm. Hard work is always rewarded.
40. Google
Industry: Information Technology
USP: So other than the free lux perks like free haircuts, food and even laundry; Google also actually listens to its employees and changed its maternity policies as well is a staunch supporter of transgender workers and has made its workplace “safe and inclusive” for all.
41. Hilcorp
Industry: Manufacturing and Production
USP: An annual bonuses average of 36% is awesome enough, but Hilcorp can give you a 60% bump as well, where decision-making is pushed to the frontlines.
42. Hilton
Industry: Hospitality
USP: Hilton gets many awards for in turn awarding employees with endless opportunities for advancement; and now they pay for employees’ GEDs as well.
43. Hyatt
Industry: Hospitality
USP: Hyatt is another hospitality chain willing to give back to its employees with amazing benefits like free on-site dry cleaning and complimentary or discounted hotel stays…
44. Hyland
Industry: Information Technology
USP: Along with a Montessori preschool on-site for employees’ kids, the CEO of this software developer initiates spontaneous work breaks, which can mean anything from cornhole tournaments to dodge ball competitions!
45. Ikea Holding U.S.
Industry: Retail
USP: Employees are made to feel valued for the contributions they make and to promote equality; each location has a diversity and inclusion ambassador as well.
46. Intuit
Industry: Information Technology
USP: How about on-site gyms that remain open 24/7 and bikes in case you want to commute on them? Plus a CEO who works with you in times of more work…
47. JM Family Enterprises
Industry: Manufacturing & Production
USP: This diversified automotive company considers its best assets to be its employees and so offers them a pension plan, 12% profit sharing, lux perks like free haircuts, and discounts on cars.
48. Kimley-Horn
Industry: Professional Services
USP: New? Well the CM will take you out for lunch and the company has plenty opportunities for growth and support plus it matches 401(k) contributions by 200%, for up to 4% of pay.
49. Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
Industry: Hospitality
USP: A diverse culture, flexible schedules, lack of hierarchy, and a promote-from-within culture plus pet-friendly sites and a $50 a night hotel room for all employees – one great company to work with.
50. KPMG
Industry: Professional Services
USP: Employees call this place an awesome place to launch a career since it offers staffers more than 50 hours of training a year, and almost 15000 employees have official mentors.
51. Marriot International
Industry: Hospitality
USP: A multi¬national hospitality company with 58% of front line and middle managers being women, and 36% being minorities – Marriot gives unlimited opportunities for growth….
52. Mars
Industry: Manufacturing & Production
USP: What could be sweeter than working at a chocolate factory? The company’s “Five Principles”: quality, responsibility, mutuality, efficiency, and freedom.
53. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
Industry: Health Care
USP: A not-for-profit hospital system that treats employees like they make a difference and is caring-oriented, within and out.
54. Mayo Clinic
Industry: Health Care
USP: A place to work that is more a place of hope plus perks like ice cream parties add to a positive and healing environment.
55. Nationwide
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: It gives workers extra paid time off for donating blood at the permanent on-site Red Cross center and an optional payroll deduction for the past three years has collected and paid $162,000 to staff in times of need.
56. Navy Federal Credit Union
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: Making a difference in the lives of millions of special people who served the country is what makes employees here happy, as does the honesty and fairness policy of the management.
57. Nordstrom
Industry: Retail
USP: Employees at the retail mainstay are empowered to run their own business and staffers call this the most supportive company ever.
58. Novo Nordisk
Industry: Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals
USP: A culture that’s where the management team is focused on the physical and emotional well-being of people who work there makes this one of the best companies to work for.
59. Nugget Market
Industry: Retail
USP: So everyone gets paid health premiums, even the part-timers and a 4% 401 (k) match! Sounds good? The atmosphere is even greater…
60. NuStar Energy
Industry: Transportation
USP: Employees get generous benefits, perks like free gym memberships, and an average of 24 hours per year in paid volunteer time along with staff celebrations to mark most holidays.
61. Nvidia
Industry: Information Technology
USP: Big dreams for artificial intelligence are backed by strong ethics and integrity, and the stock tripled in 2016 as well.
62. Ohio Health
Industry: Health Care
USP: Staff award nights and paid shopping trips for workers’ 20th anniversaries makes employees feel valued and appreciated.
63. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Industry: Professional Services
USP: So this is a law firm that believes that work/life balance is paramount and managers bend over backward to ensure work gets done without getting in the way of home life!
64. PCL Constructions
Industry: Real Estate & Construction
USP: 90% of employees here own shares and this employee-ownership model gives everyone a sense of belonging. Oh and the dividends are awesome too.
65. Perkins Coei
Industry: Professional Services
USP: Sabbaticals and extra paid time off for long-timers along a culture of mutual respect make this law firm a great place to work for sure.
66. Pinnacle Financial Partners
Industry: Financial Services and Insurance
USP: All employees get restricted stock and annual cash incentives so retiring from this company is a lark, as is the yearly 35 paid days off…
67. Plante & Moran
Industry: Professional Services
USP: New hires receive miniature golden rulers when they start the job to show that caring for others is the cornerstone of this accounting firm’s culture.
68. Protivity
Industry: Professional Services
USP: Everyone gets a peer adviser, a career adviser, and an executive adviser so that each employee can reach his or her best.
69. Publix Super Markets
Industry: Retail
USP: One of the largest employee-owned companies in the US, this company offers great retirement benefits in the form of stock ownership and heft bonuses. Employees really stick around here, with many being over the age of 90!
70. PwC
Industry: Professional Services
USP: So PwC is famous for offering countless opportunities for growth, travel, and leadership and they have also pioneered a student loan pay-down benefit, in which employees can get $1,200 a year toward their loans.
71. Quicken Loans
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: So who says money is boring. Here employees ride hoverboards around the colorful HQ which also has a basketball court with a view to downtown Detroit.
72. QuikTrip
Industry: Retail
USP: A low staff turnover, healthy profit-sharing bonuses, job counseling and tuition reimbursement makes everyone feel important at this convenience-store operator.
73. Rackspace
Industry: Information Technology
USP: This cloud-¬services company has relaxed ¬atmosphere with freedom of individual expression.
74. REI
Industry: Retail
USP: An outdoorsy outfitter, this company truly believes in what it sells, and 70% of its profits go back to staff and community causes. Employees get gear discounts and paid sabbaticals after 15 years.
75. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Industry: Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals
USP: For those who truly want to help, this biotech firm offers dedication, purpose, impact and world-leading science and has four FDA-approved drugs.
76. Roche Diagnostics
Industry: Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals
USP: Outstanding benefits, perks like an on-site summer camp for staffers’ kids, and a wonderful” work/life balance, makes an average tenure here an impressive 10½ years.
77. Salesforce
Industry: Information Technology
USP: Want to work with a company who gives? This one gives a week off to its employees each year to volunteer in a company with an “Ohana” (family) culture.
78. SAP America
Industry: Information Technology
USP: This dynamic” software company is one big community where each employee is willing to lend another a helping hand….
79. SAS
Industry: Information Technology
One company that tries to care for its employees by offering childcare, dry cleaning, haircuts, and a pharmacy on-site, plus flexible scheduling too.
80. Scripps Health
Industry: Healthcare
USP: The biggest USP of this company is perhaps CEO Chris Van Gorder who is setting the bar high for integrity, respect, and mutual accountability, and answers emails within 12 hours.
81. Sheetz
Industry: Retail
USP: A high-energy and quirky work environment is the signature of this convenience-store chain, and in 2016 the management announced a $15 million raise for store employees.
82. Slalom
Industry: Professional Services
USP: A sabbatical program for all employees as well a very principled and honest work atmosphere makes this management consultancy one of the best companies to work for.
83. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Industry: Health Care
USP: The job is meaningful enough and the genuine leadership also provided an uplifting atmosphere.
84. Stryker
Industry: Manufacturing & Production
Stryker is a medical device maker and is looking for people who are amazingly talented to change patients’ lives, with ample rewards.
85. Southern Ohio Medical Centre
Industry: Health Care
USP: With 40% of internal hires and tuition reimbursements averaging more than $7,000, this company sure knows how to rewards its performers.
86. TD Industries
Industry: Construction and Real Estate
USP: An employee-owned construction company where the management apparently treats its entire employee well so much so that after five years, employees get their faces in¬cluded among the ¬nearly 1,000 staff portraits of in the HQ lobby.
87. TEK Systems
Industry: Professional Services
USP: The Company shows its thanks by sending flowers to the parents and spouses of top performers and on the company’s 30th anniversary, it gave employees $250 for each year they had been at the company.
88. Texas Health Resources
Industry: Health Care
USP: The Company actually lives by its motto of individuals caring for individuals together as the management is as transparent as it can be, and the staff as genuine as they can be.
89. The Boston Consulting Group
Industry: Professional Services
USP: If you are looking for a consultancy to work at, look no further for this company offers unmatched growth, $5 co-pays and emphasizes self-care for its employees including telecommuting, on site fitness centers and sabbaticals.
90. The Cheesecake Factory
Industry: Hospitality
USP: Nothing cheesy here, where the leaders are supportive, the management warmhearted and everyone remains motivated.
91. The Container Store
Industry: Retail
USP: Higher hourly wages and respected given to those who work good are what makes this specialty retailer one of the best companies to work for.
92. Ultimate Software
Industry: Information Technology
USP: Probably one of the best companies to work for techies, you get wonderful benefits, supportive management, an amazing work environment and restricted stock units on your first day.
93. USAA
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
USP: So this is definitely one of the best companies to work for, with an 8% 401(k) match, six weeks of vacation, and flexible scheduling!
94. Veterans United Home Loans
Industry: Financial Services & Insurance
US’s largest dedicated VA lender has a community minded culture, with more than 90% of the staff giving away 1% of their paychecks.
95. VMware
Industry: Information Technology
USP: 40 hours of paid volunteer time and all new birth or adoptive parents (including dads) became eligible for 90 days of paid leave! Indeed one of the best companies to work for.
96. Wegmans Food Market
Industry: Retail
USP: The great thing about the company is that the employees get flexible schedules, plenty promotions and tiny but meaningful things like free birthday cakes and hot chocolate in winters!
97. Whole Foods Market
Industry: Retail
USP: The Company pays its staffers in stores fairly and rewards them with gain sharing, bonuses and treats everyone with respect.
98. W.L. Gore and Associates
Indsutry: Manufacturing & Production
USP: A promote-from-within culture makes Gore-Tex fabrics, medical devices, and more keeps its employee happy, as will skills and training which the company sponsors.
99. Workday
Industry: Information Technology
USP: This financial management and HR tech company provides seamless people management (even at Walmart) and grants $500 to the cause in a “workmates” name if they volunteer for 25 hours.
100. World Wide Technology
Industry: Information Technology
USP: This systems integrator provides supply-chain technology to 45% of Fortune 500 companies and employees love the perks as well, like on-site medical care, treadmill desk stations, and the occasional free massage.
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