America's Best Employers 2015
As the job market starts to heat up for the first time in nearly a decade, the hunt for top talent is on. Workers have more options now than they’ve had in a long time. So who’s offering them the best situations?
Forbes decided to find out by asking those in the best position to say: America’s employees.In partnership with Statista.com, we asked more than 20,000 American workers at large U.S. companies, nonprofit institutions like hospitals, government agencies, and U.S. divisions of multinationals a simple question: on a scale of 0-10, how likely would you be to recommend your employer to someone else? How about other employers in your industry?
The result: a list of 500 employers, across 25 industries, where the workers like their jobs enough to spread the word.Some of the results probably may not surprise you, like our top-ranked employer: Google, long one of Silicon Valley’s top perk palaces and known for its campus-like environment.
Of course, it isn’t all about creature comforts at the search giant, according to their HR chief, Laszlo Bock.
“People come visit Google all the time then go and install the lava lamps and bean bags,” he told Forbes. “There’s intense global competition for the best, most creative minds who are able to create the biggest, most important things, and that’s going to continue accelerating. That’s why it becomes even more important to create a kind of workplace where those people want to be.”