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Glassdoor.com Employees’ Choice Awards: 2011 Best Places To Work Winners Revealed

Posted by • December 14th, 2010 • 515 Comments

We’re proud to announce the results of the 3rd Annual Employees’ Choice Awards which recognizes the 50 Best Places to Work for 2011. Unlike other workplace awards, our awards are not about company financials and growth rates nor does it involve elaborate self-nomination packages. The Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards are simply based on the opinions and ratings of company employees.

This year the #1 Best Place to Work for 2011 is a company that has changed the way many of us communicate and share information – Facebook.

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Best Places to Work vs. 100 Best Companies to Work For 2010 – Comparing Glassdoor and Fortune Rankings

Posted by • January 21st, 2010 • 56 Comments

Today Fortune released their list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For 2010”, and we wanted to do a little side by side comparison to see how their list stacks up against Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. While both lists rely on employee feedback, Glassdoor’s list exclusively represents Employees’ Choice as it takes into account all the anonymous company reviews submitted throughout the year, instead of a short period of time, and does not allow companies to nominate themselves – employees do that through surveys in which they rate and review their employer*.

What we found most interesting was that Glassdoor’s Best Place to Work, Southwest Airlines, was absent from their list, and our #2 slot, General Mills, was ranked #90. It was #1 on our list last year, and barely made Fortune’s rankings at #99. The number one company on Fortune’s listing, SAS, did not make the Best Places to Work top 50 because it had too few reviews to qualify, but it does have a 4.0 rating on Glassdoor, and the CEO, Jim Goodnight, has a 73% approval rating. Fortune’s #2 company, Edward Jones, was also lauded by employees on Glassdoor, however, it was #24 on our list.

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The Next 100 Years

Posted by • January 15th, 2010 • Leave a comment

Got to love the holidays, a great time to spend time with family, watch bowl games, read a few books and consider the upcoming year and what’s next. I read two interesting books over the holiday: James Bradley’s The Imperial Cruise – the story of Teddy Roosevelt and our relationship with Asia, and George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years. It takes a brave and confident person to forecast what’s ahead for the next 100 years for our globe politically and economically. Friedman has the background and enough ‘correct’ forecasts that he is listened to carefully by governments and corporations all over the world.

Starting in the next few years and really manifesting itself from 2020 to 2030 will be a global war for talent. Friedman projects that due to mortality rates and retiring boomers the world over, countries will be forced to entice and compete for skilled and unskilled talent to keep their economies moving in the right direction.

Why should this be of interest to us readers at Glassdoor? Well, whether you are currently working, looking for work or considering strategic paths for your company’s short and long term future, it is vital to know that talent plays an important ...

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Glassdoor Reveals Top 50 Best Places to Work, 2010: Southwest Airlines Ranked #1

Posted by • December 15th, 2009 • 97 Comments

We are proud to announce the winners of the 2nd annual Glassdoor.com Employees’ Choice Awards for Top 50 Best Places to Work.  The Glassdoor Best Places to Work list is based on the employee sentiment of their respective employers from throughout the past year¹.  With all the economic ups and downs, employee opinion of a company is becoming an increasingly important and valuable barometer of how well a company treats its workforce during good times — or in more troubling times like we’ve seen most recently.

Highlights from the 2010 Best Places to Work Awards include:

Southwest Airlines beat out last year’s top Best Place to Work winner – General Mills. Southwest garners a 4.7 company rating and CEO Gary Kelly has a 94% approval rating. We think Southwest Airlines Flight Attendee based in Oakland, CA said it best when discussing why the company is a great company to work for: “SWA knows that the employee is just as important as the customer.”

However despite the fact that General Mills dropped one spot in the Best Place to Work ranks, the cereal manufacturer CEO Ken Powell took a one percentage point increase in his approval rating (97%) compared to this time last year, ...

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Glassdoor Q3 CEO Watch List Report: Highest and Lowest CEO Approval Ratings Reveal Employee Opinions May be Influenced by Proximity to CEO

Posted by • October 21st, 2009 • 160 Comments
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The Glassdoor quarterly report* on CEO performance is out, and it seems the down economy and internal actions may have impacted the popularity of CEOs across the board. More than 60% of CEOs on both the highest and lowest rated lists — ranking 25 CEOs each — recorded a decline in overall approval ratings since the beginning of July while less than 25% moved up. New analysis this quarter reveals that, at many companies, opinions of the CEOs vary widely depending on whether an employee works close to the power center in the corporate headquarters or further removed from the CEO in a satellite office.

In fact, 68% of CEOs on both the highest and lowest rated lists have higher approval ratings from employees in headquarters than employees working in non-HQ offices. A perfect example of this phenomenon is Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, who happens to be one of the highest rated CEOs on Glassdoor.  While his score has slid from 91% approval in Q2 to 76% in Q3, most of the decrease has to do with an influx of negative reviews from Netflix operations in Oregon – as of early October, Hastings had a 92% approval rating among headquarter ...

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Glassdoor CEOs – Who’s Up? Who’s Down? Who’s Gone?

Posted by • April 8th, 2009 • 5 Comments

The last time we reported on CEO ratings on Glassdoor.com was at the end of 2008 when we looked at the Naughty and Nice CEOs of 2008.  Now that the first quarter is over, we’ve  updated the Glassdoor.com lists of highest and lowest rated CEOs, which includes the CEO Watch List (a list of lowest rated CEOs)  and highest rated CEOs. Interestingly, a number of the Watch List’s previous members have – uh, well – moved on.  (Most recently AOL’s Randy Falco).

At of the end of March, the CEO with the lowest approval rating is Office Depot‘s CEO Steve Odland, who has a 5% approval rating and 83% disapproval rating. Following is LexisNexis‘ Andy Prozes at 7%, dropping 6 percentage points and who also holds an 83% disapproval rating.  Between Odland and Prozes, they hold the highest disapproval rating among the least popular CEOs. Rounding out the bottom three is United Airlines CEO Glenn Tilton with a 9% approval rating and an 83% disapproval rating, according to his employees. As we’ve collected more data, eligibility for the CEO Watch List has expanded and  10 CEOs are newcomers among the 25 lowest rated, these include: Jim Crowe of Level 3 ...

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Fortune Announces Best Places to Work: How does it compare?

Posted by • January 22nd, 2009 • 137 Comments

As some of you may know in late December 2008, Glassdoor announced the Employee’s Choice Best Places to Work award. Today, Fortune has announced their annual 100 Best Places to Work For. See below the top 50 companies that made their list and the top 50 companies that made the Glassdoor list.

Here are some of the highlights when comparing the top 50 Best Places to Work:

Only 30% of companies recognized by Fortune made it into Glassdoor’s employee-selected top 10 companies
11 companies make both Glassdoor and Fortunes Top 50 Best Places to Work (see those highlighted in yellow)
Glassdoor’s #1 Best Place to Work, General Mills, falls to 99th place on Fortune’s list
Fortune’s #1 Best Place to Work, NetApp, makes the 10th spot on Glassdoor’s list

It’s surprising to see that eBay pops up on Fortune’s Top 100 list as a Best Place to Work. Based on the company ratings available at Glassdoor, eBay was actually one of the lowest rated companies according to employees. Currently eBay receives a modest 2.8 company rating and CEO John Donahoe garners a low 20% approval rating. (eBay ranked 83rd on the Fortune list)

Glassdoor 50 Best Places to Work
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General Mills
NetApp

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Bain & Company
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December’s Review of the Month

Posted by • January 5th, 2009 • Leave a comment

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Employees’ Choice Unveiled: Glassdoor Announces Top Best Places to Work

Posted by • December 29th, 2008 • 6 Comments

Since launching early this year, nearly 75,000 employees have come to Glassdoor to anonymously contribute salary information and share opinions about their company’s work environment and rate their overall satisfaction. We decided to tabulate the results and see who rated highest… and lowest. We are proud to announce the ultimate Employees’ Choice Awards for Workplaces in our first annual Best Places to Work Top 50¹ list.

Congratulations to General Mills, which topped the list of companies rated by their employees with a 4.5 company rating (on a 5-point scale) while giving General Mills CEO Ken Powell a 96% approval rating. It’s not hard to see why when looking at reviews². One employee writes “I’m proud to work for GMI! They are good community partners, they genuinely care about diversity, and they are well respected as a company. They are consistently ranked among the best companies to work for and their pay/benefits are competitive. The headquarters…is rather impressive as well boasting an impressive cafeteria, health facility…You could probably live on campus if you wanted to. These amenities go a long way into making the real life more manageable so that you can focus on performing well at your job.”

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