FORTUNE and Great Place to Work revealed their annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list, with Cisco taking top honors for the second year in a row. Of this year’s leader, FORTUNE Senior Reporter Megan Leonhardt writes, “The tech giant has offered free counseling sessions through the company’s employee assistance program for more than 20 years and recently boosted its digital therapy options […] It launched a companywide Day for Me, essentially an additional paid vacation day in spring 2020 to help workers prioritize self-care. Cisco formally implemented the benefit last year and has offered an extra eight days of paid time off so far, with an additional three planned in 2022.”
Of this year’s list, FORTUNE’s editors write: “FORTUNE and our partner Great Place to Work have been publishing the Best Companies list for 25 years—none more fraught than the past two. While COVID-19 has forever changed the way we work, the best businesses are stepping up to support their employees as they navigate uncharted waters.”
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For the 25th anniversary of this list, FORTUNE has also noted the Longest-Recognized Best Companies to Work For. Cisco and Wegmans Food Markets, ranked first and third on this year’s list, have been recognized every year the list has been published, along with Marriott International (23rd) and Publix Supermarkets (92nd).
The 2022 Top 10 Best Companies to Work For are:
- Cisco
- Hilton
- Wegmans Food Markets
- Salesforce
- Nvidia
- Accenture
- Rocket Companies
- American Express
- David Weekley Homes
- Capital One Financial
The 2022 100 Best Companies to Work For by the numbers:
- 238,959: The current number of open positions at the 100 Best Companies to Work For
- $24: The minimum amount Target will pay some retail workers per hour in 2022
- $2,000: The amount of the grant David Weekley Homes gives employees taking a four- to six-week sabbatical
- 18: The number of companies on the list that provide fully paid sabbaticals
- 20%: The percentage of Wegmans employees who are related to someone else who works at the supermarket chain
- $450 million: The amount that American Express spent on its DEI initiative between October 2020 and mid-2021
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Also in the April/May 2022 issue of FORTUNE: “Feed Your Career,” by Senior Editor Beth Kowitt, in which she explores why Publix and Wegmans have accomplished the rare feat of claiming a place on FORTUNE’s Best Companies list for 25 straight years, and how the grocers are keeping employees happy and loyal at a time when retail workers are quitting in droves.
Kowitt writes, “Most striking about the Publix and Wegmans streak is that supermarket jobs, already notoriously low paying, have become even more grueling over the past two years as workers put their lives at risk by showing up every day in the middle of a pandemic. Layer on the stress of dealing with disgruntled customers, and it’s clear why so many workers have reached a breaking point. In December 2021 some 786,000 retail employees quit—a record in an industry already plagued by high turnover.”
On April 25, 2022, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the 100 Best Companies to Work For list, Fortune CEO Alan Murray, Great Place to Work CEO Michael C. Bush, Target CEO Brian Cornell, Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, and Accenture CEO Julie Sweet and other leading CEOs will discuss what it takes to make a company great, and how diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are essential for all modern companies seeking top talent and engaged employees. They will also discuss how remote and hybrid work is changing employee experience, focusing on what has worked, what hasn’t worked, and the challenges to come.
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