Having exhausted the Fortune 500 list and not completed 200 interviews, individual researchers on the team made personal contacts to some of the corporations that had initially refused where a researcher knew an individual public relations person; this yielded 35 additional interviews. After exhausting the original 500 list, some corporations were selected from the Fortune 1000 list. Every corporation contacted had a minimum of 1000 employees, and the majority
are Fortune 500 companies