"The most important considerations for this year's list were hiring and the ways in which companies are helping their employees weather the recession. All 100 companies on our list are currently hiring, many of them aggressively, leading to more than 96,000 open job positions expected in the next year," Fortune Deputy Managing Editor Hank Gilman said.
In order to nominate the companies which enter the top, the magazine collaborates with the Great Place to Work Institute. Together, they conduct the most elaborate employee survey in corporate America. For example three hundred and forty-three companies took part in this year’s edition.
A company achieves two thirds of its general score based on the results of the Institute’s Trust Index Survey. This is filed out by a random group of employees from the company. The inquiry investigates the employees’ attitude about the management’s credibility, bonding between colleagues and job satisfaction. To determine the remaining third of the scoring, the institute performs a Culture Audit on the company. This includes questions about salary and benefit programs and a set of unconventional questions about communication, hiring and diversity.
"This is gratifying if you believe, as we do, that in order for a company to achieve long-term success, particularly in this economic environment, it has to have the full engagement, commitment and passion of its employees," stated Ernst Lieb, President and CEO, Mercedes Benz USA.
If this is the algorithm behind Fortune's top, it means that other manufacturers, like GM for example, never stood a chance...
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