The 100 Best Companies to Work For is an annual list published by ''

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'' magazine that ranks U.S. companies based on employee happiness and perks''.'' Like the

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, the list includes both

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and private companies. The list was first published in 1998.

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received No. 1 placement in the most recent 2021 ranking, followed by Salesforce, Hilton Worldwide and

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Methodology

To compile the list, ''Fortune'' partners with the Great Place to Work Institute to survey a random group of employees from each company. A company's score is based on the "Trust Index Employee Survey" and the "Culture Audit." According to the magazine, the Trust Index "asks questions related to employees' attitudes about management's credibility, overall job satisfaction, and camaraderie." The Culture Audit includes "detailed questions about pay and benefit programs and a series of open-ended questions about hiring practices, methods of internal communication, training, recognition programs, and diversity efforts." The methodology has been criticized as being too superficial in focusing primarily on perks, leadership, and financial success as opposed to actual workplace culture and sense of purpose.

Results

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has ranked first eight times and appeared every year from 2006 until 2018 (the company also disappeared from Glassdoor's similar list). Additionally, Wegmans,

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, W. L. Gore,

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Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, Ho ...

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, Publix, Four Seasons,

Whole Foods Whole Foods Market IP, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon, is an upscale American multinational supermarket chain headquartered in Austin, Texas, which sells products free from hydrogenated fats and artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives. A US ...

, The Container Store,

Cisco Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...

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, Genentech and

Nordstrom Nordstrom, Inc. () is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin in 1901. The original Wallin & Nordstrom store operated exclusively as a shoe store, and ...

have all have been on the list at least 17 times. In 2011, finance professor

Alex Edmans Alex Edmans is professor of finance at London Business School and the current Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College. Since 2017 he has been the Managing Editor of the Review of Finance, the leading academic finance ...

published a paper in the Journal of Financial Economics showing that the 100 Best Companies to Work For outperformed their peers in total shareholder returns by 2.1–3.5% from 1984–2009.Edmans, Alex (2011)
Does the stock market fully value intangibles? Employee satisfaction and equity prices.
''Journal of Financial Economics'' 101, 621–640.

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