100 Best Companies
February 04, 2005
America's best employers are creating jobs, absorbing high health care costs, and improving internal
communications. These are the most important trends gleaned from the data for FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies
to Work for 2005" list by Great Place to Work® Institute, the
global research and consulting firm that compiles the list for the magazine each year.
The list appeared in FORTUNE's January 24th issue.
It is worth the time to look around the Great Place to Work® Institute site. While you are job hunting it is helpful to read what the experts think makes a great place to work.
Here is an example of some of their thinking:
Any company can be a Great Place to Work®!
Our approach is based on the major findings of 20 years of research - that trust between managers and employees is the primary defining characteristic of the very best workplaces.
At the heart of our definition of a great place to work - a place where employees "trust the people they work for, have pride in what they do, and enjoy the people they work with" - is the idea that a great workplace is measured by the quality of the three, interconnected relationships that exist there:
- The relationship between employees and management.
- The relationship between employees and their jobs/company.
- The relationship between employees and other employees.
To get a list of the Top 100 companies, you can sign up for Fortune online or submit your email address at the Institute.
- Carrie Baggs