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The 100 Best Companies to Work For is an annual list published by Fortune magazine that ranks U.S. companies based on employee happiness and perks.http://fortune.com/2016/03/03/best-companies-2016-intro/ This Year's Best Employers Have Focused on Fairness Levering Robert March 3, 2016 Fortune April 2, 2016 Like the Fortune 500, the list includes both public and private companies.http://fortune.com/best-companies/#methodology Methodology of the 100 Best Companies to Work For March 3, 2016 Fortune Time Inc. April 2, 2016 The list was first published in 1998. Hilton Worldwide received No. 1 placement in the most recent 2025 ranking, followed by Synchrony Financial, Cisco, American Express, and Nvidia.
Methodology
To compile the list, Fortune partners with the Great Place to Work Institute to survey a random group of employees from each company. A company's score is based on the "Trust Index Employee Survey" and the "Culture Audit."
According to the magazine, the Trust Index "asks questions related to employees' attitudes about management's credibility, overall job satisfaction, and camaraderie." The Culture Audit includes "detailed questions about pay and benefit programs and a series of open-ended questions about hiring practices, methods of internal communication, training, recognition programs, and diversity efforts."
Fortune's articles about the list have been criticized as being too superficial in focusing primarily on perks, leadership, and financial success as opposed to actual workplace culture and sense of purpose that the list's methodology is concerned with.Hatta Robert 2018-02-20 The Problem with Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For List https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/problem-fortunes-100-best-companies-work-list-robert-hatta live 2022-01-12 LinkedIn en https://web.archive.org/web/20220113093052/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/problem-fortunes-100-best-companies-work-list-robert-hatta 2022-01-13
Results
Alphabet has ranked first eight times and appeared every year from 2006 until 2018 (the company also disappeared from Glassdoor's similar list).Wagner Kurt 2019-12-11 Facebook, Google Drop Out of Glassdoor's Top 10 'Best Places to Work' List https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-google-drop-top-10-045900528.html live 2022-01-12 Yahoo Finance en-US https://web.archive.org/web/20191211073830/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-google-drop-top-10-045900528.html 2019-12-11 100 Best Companies to Work For 2018 http://fortune.com/best-companies/2018 live 2018-02-16 Fortune en-US https://web.archive.org/web/20180305044800/http://fortune.com:80/best-companies/2018/ 2018-03-05 Additionally, Wegmans, SAS Institute, W. L. Gore, REI, Goldman Sachs, TDIndustries,Top 10 Web Developers Companies and services in USA https://it-rating.com/web-developers/ 2022-06-30 IT Rating USA en Publix, Four Seasons, Whole Foods, The Container Store, Cisco, Marriott, Genentechhttp://fortune.com/best-companies/genentech/ Genentech Fortune en-US 2018-08-07 2019-02-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20190227092806/http://fortune.com/best-companies/genentech/ dead and Nordstrom have all have been on the list at least 17 times.
In 2011, finance professor Alex Edmans published a paper in the Journal of Financial Economics showing that the 100 Best Companies to Work For outperformed their peers in total shareholder returns by 2.1–3.5% from 1984–2009.Edmans, Alex (2011). Does the stock market fully value intangibles? Employee satisfaction and equity prices. Journal of Financial Economics 101, 621–640.
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See also
United States Companies
40 Under 40 (Fortune magazine)
Other Fortune lists
References
External links
100 Best Companies to Work For from Great Place to Work Institute
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