Glassdoor has introduced the winners of its annual Staff’ Alternative Awards, honoring the Greatest Locations to Work 2024 within the US. That is the sixteenth version of the annual office awards based mostly on worker ranking. Apple has returned to an annual listing of the 100 greatest locations to work after falling off final 12 months. Nonetheless, the rating just isn’t dominated by expertise corporations because it had been since the previous couple of years. The widespread job cuts throughout the sector appear to have affected the sentiment.
The primary expertise firm on the listing is Nvidia, ranked at No. 2. Chipmaker Nvidia’s merchandise underpin the booming synthetic intelligence business and the corporate has seen its valuation leap by over 100% within the final one 12 months. The corporate is adopted by little-known expertise corporations ServiceNow, MathsWorks and Procore Applied sciences, ranked at No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 respectively. The following huge expertise firm on the listing is VMware, ranked at No. 7. Adobe ranks at No. 15; Microsoft at No. 18; Autodesk at No. 20, Google at No. 26 and German software program maker SAP at No. 34.
The iPhone maker Apple ranks at No. 39 within the listing from Glassdoor. Apple re-entered the listing this 12 months after it fell off the rating in 2023. Whereas Apple’s return-to-office push in 2022 could have been in charge for its falling off the listing final 12 months, the tech bellwether’s lack of large-scale layoffs in contrast with its friends probably introduced it again, Glassdoor’s lead economist Daniel Zhao stated, as staff worth “stability and safety.”
10 expertise corporations out of the listing in 2024
Glassdoor has carried out the survey since 2009. Apple is one in every of 31 expertise business corporations to rank on the listing, down from 41 final 12 months. One of the distinguished title right here is that of Fb father or mother Meta Platforms Inc. The corporate missed the reduce for the second straight 12 months. The old-line employers like banks, retailers and producers have changed IT corporations on the listing this 12 months. Expertise has misplaced a few of its luster versus the previous 12 months,” stated Zhao. “It’s nonetheless an amazing business for jobseekers, however the shine has worn off to some extent. And the businesses making a comeback, they’re the previous guard, so it suggests we’re heading again to a extra balanced job market.”
Work-life stability gained significance for a lot of staff final 12 months — mentions of “nervousness” in posts on Glassdoor’s neighborhood websites shot up fourfold — however elements akin to profession alternatives historically carry extra weight, Zhao stated. Bain’s rise to primary for the sixth time was fueled by its popularity for profession enhancement, he stated, regardless of the business’s well-publicized lengthy hours.
The variety of retail corporations greater than doubled to 10, with Lululemon Athletica Inc. and HEB Grocery Co. making repeat appearances whereas regional grocery store chain Wegmans Meals Markets made the reduce after not being on final 12 months’s listing. Manufacturing companies doubled their presence to 6 corporations, together with medical-device maker Boston Scientific Corp., engine maker Cummins Inc. and Texas Devices Inc.
To be thought of for the listing, companies should have greater than 1,000 staff and obtain at the least 75 worker scores over the previous 12 months on 9 office attributes, akin to compensation, tradition and senior administration. The ranking threshold resulted in final 12 months’s No. 1, software program firm Gainsight Inc., falling off the listing solely this 12 months because it didn’t obtain sufficient critiques, Zhao stated.
The primary expertise firm on the listing is Nvidia, ranked at No. 2. Chipmaker Nvidia’s merchandise underpin the booming synthetic intelligence business and the corporate has seen its valuation leap by over 100% within the final one 12 months. The corporate is adopted by little-known expertise corporations ServiceNow, MathsWorks and Procore Applied sciences, ranked at No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 respectively. The following huge expertise firm on the listing is VMware, ranked at No. 7. Adobe ranks at No. 15; Microsoft at No. 18; Autodesk at No. 20, Google at No. 26 and German software program maker SAP at No. 34.
The iPhone maker Apple ranks at No. 39 within the listing from Glassdoor. Apple re-entered the listing this 12 months after it fell off the rating in 2023. Whereas Apple’s return-to-office push in 2022 could have been in charge for its falling off the listing final 12 months, the tech bellwether’s lack of large-scale layoffs in contrast with its friends probably introduced it again, Glassdoor’s lead economist Daniel Zhao stated, as staff worth “stability and safety.”
10 expertise corporations out of the listing in 2024
Glassdoor has carried out the survey since 2009. Apple is one in every of 31 expertise business corporations to rank on the listing, down from 41 final 12 months. One of the distinguished title right here is that of Fb father or mother Meta Platforms Inc. The corporate missed the reduce for the second straight 12 months. The old-line employers like banks, retailers and producers have changed IT corporations on the listing this 12 months. Expertise has misplaced a few of its luster versus the previous 12 months,” stated Zhao. “It’s nonetheless an amazing business for jobseekers, however the shine has worn off to some extent. And the businesses making a comeback, they’re the previous guard, so it suggests we’re heading again to a extra balanced job market.”
Work-life stability gained significance for a lot of staff final 12 months — mentions of “nervousness” in posts on Glassdoor’s neighborhood websites shot up fourfold — however elements akin to profession alternatives historically carry extra weight, Zhao stated. Bain’s rise to primary for the sixth time was fueled by its popularity for profession enhancement, he stated, regardless of the business’s well-publicized lengthy hours.
The variety of retail corporations greater than doubled to 10, with Lululemon Athletica Inc. and HEB Grocery Co. making repeat appearances whereas regional grocery store chain Wegmans Meals Markets made the reduce after not being on final 12 months’s listing. Manufacturing companies doubled their presence to 6 corporations, together with medical-device maker Boston Scientific Corp., engine maker Cummins Inc. and Texas Devices Inc.
To be thought of for the listing, companies should have greater than 1,000 staff and obtain at the least 75 worker scores over the previous 12 months on 9 office attributes, akin to compensation, tradition and senior administration. The ranking threshold resulted in final 12 months’s No. 1, software program firm Gainsight Inc., falling off the listing solely this 12 months because it didn’t obtain sufficient critiques, Zhao stated.
