Salesforce, Amazon & Uber among the Top Companies on LinkedIn Top Attractors, a New List Ranking Where the World Wants to Wor...
June 20 2016 - 10:03AM
Business Wire
Celebrity CEOs, Travel Allowances and
Monastery-like Offices are Helping Companies Attract and Keep
Talent
LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD), the world’s largest
professional network on the Internet, announced today the launch of
the first-ever Top Attractors list, using exclusive LinkedIn
data and examining the billions of actions of LinkedIn’s 433+
million members, to rank the top companies where people want to
work now.
Top Attractors ranks the top companies in the world, as well
companies in United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia,
Brazil and India, and is the latest list in the editorial LinkedIn
List franchise, which celebrates the companies and the people
making an impact in the professional world. The industries
attracting the most job seekers in the U.S. include technology
(45%), media and entertainment (13%), financial services (10%) and
professional services (10%), among others. Additionally,
professionals point to notable CEOs, schedule flexibility and
company growth as the most important attributes when considering
where to work.
While every company on the U.S. list fosters a certain culture,
business model and leadership team, the list revealed some key
themes:
- So long, stability. Professionals
seek growing companies over blue-chip stalwarts. Aggregate
revenue for the top 20 Fortune 500 companies, which is largely
comprised of blue-chip brands, fell one percent in the past year,
whereas aggregate revenue rose 14 percent for the top 20 public
companies on the U.S. Top Attractors list.
- Bubble or not, tech is on fire.
Technology companies make up 100 percent of the top 10 on the list
and nearly half (45%) of the most wanted companies in the U.S. Even
companies not traditionally viewed as tech have caught on.
Goldman Sachs (#27 on the list) is repositioning itself as a
tech company with a quarter of its 36,500 employees now engineers
or other technology staff.
- CEOs matter. Eighty percent of
the top 10 companies on the U.S. list are still run by the original
founder and CEO. Additionally, nearly two-thirds of American
workers (65%) would accept a job without a fancy title to work at a
company with a CEO they believe in.1 The companies in the top 10 on
the U.S. list have some of the most recognizable CEOs in the world:
Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
- Forget the corner office…
professionals want flexibility. Nearly half of American workers
would forgo the corner office job and a high salary to gain more
flexibility in their schedules.2 Nearly 50 percent on the U.S.
list have flexible work policies.
“LinkedIn is uniquely equipped to determine where the world's
professionals want to work — and we know it based on the billions
of actions they take, not on self-reported surveys,” says Daniel
Roth, executive editor, LinkedIn. “We felt that the Top Attractors
list couldn't come at a more urgent time. Companies around the
globe are forced to keep pace with an accelerating rate of
technological and economic change. Having and keeping the right
people is what is going to separate the winners and losers. And the
better these top companies get at attracting, the harder it is for
competitors to catch up. We dug into the data to find out who those
stars were.”
Here is what the top 10 LinkedIn Top Attractors are doing to
draw top talent:
1. Google offers post-mortem financial
support to the spouses and families of employees.2.
Salesforce consulted monks when constructing areas for
mindfulness in its offices.3. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is
one of the only millennial CEOs on the list. His company made waves
in expanding paid parental leave to all employees globally to four
months off.4. Apple is designing a new multi-billion dollar
campus headquarters that includes 8,000 trees in an effort to be
more environmentally friendly.5. Amazon provides excellent
salaries and such perks as the Amazon Career Choice Program, which
pays 95 percent of tuition for in-demand fields.6. Uber
employees are given free ride credits every month.7.
Microsoft* employees don’t need to look far for coffee - the
wide-spanning campus has 37 espresso bars, 33 cafes and more than
500 stocked kitchenettes.8. Tesla boasts of a "flat
organizational structure” to streamline conversations between
departments.9. Twitter holds regular meetings between its
leaders and “tweeps” to stress transparency.10. Airbnb gives
employees a travel allowance to visit their properties.
Like all of the LinkedIn content efforts, the robust methodology
is derived from a combination of LinkedIn data and editorial. The
Top Attractors examined all companies with more than 500 employees
and is fueled by exclusive LinkedIn data like applications for
jobs, company reach, member engagement, new hire staying power, and
an editorial lens. It’s based on the actions of professionals with
editorial oversight, highlighting the companies most sought-after
today.
The complete U.S. Top Attractors list, along with lists
representing additional global markets, video interviews and
special features, can be found at
https://lists.linkedin.com/2016/top-attractors/en/us. LinkedIn
invites you to celebrate the honorees and their accomplishments
using the hashtag #LinkedInTopAttractors on social media. The next
LinkedIn List in the series, Next Wave, will be unveiled later this
year and will focus on the top professionals 35 and under who are
changing the way we do business.
About LinkedIn
LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals to make them more
productive and successful and transforms the way companies hire,
market, and sell. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for
every member of the global workforce through the ongoing
development of the world's first Economic Graph. LinkedIn has more
than 433 million members and has offices around the globe.
LinkedIn Top Attractors List Methodology
The Top Attractors list is fueled by a combination of exclusive
LinkedIn data like new hire staying power, company reach, member
engagement and an editorial lens. It’s based on the actions of
jobseekers and professionals with editorial oversight, highlighting
the companies most sought-after today.
*While we are thrilled that many people want to work with us at
LinkedIn, we have removed ourselves from consideration for The
LinkedIn Top Attractors list as we do with all other lists in the
editorial franchise. The list still features Microsoft and was
finalized prior to the announcement on June 13, 2016 that Microsoft
intends to acquire LinkedIn. We will re-evaluate Microsoft’s
inclusion in the future.
LinkedIn Censuswide Study 2016 Methodology
LinkedIn partnered with Censuswide Research to carry out an
online survey of 6,266 workers between May 18 and May 23, 2016.
Countries surveyed were Australia, Brazil, France, India, UK and
USA.
1 LinkedIn Censuswide Study 20162 LinkedIn Censuswide Study
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