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Top 100 Best Places to Work in IT Recognized by Computerworld
06/22/2015
The 22nd Annual Best Places to Work in IT list names Quicken Loans, Credit Acceptance and Noah Consulting No. 1 for large, midsize and small organizations, respectively
Framingham, Mass. – June 22, 2015 – IDG’s Computerworld—the leading IT media brand dedicated to being the voice of business technology—is proud to announce the 2015 Best Places to Work in IT list (Click here to tweet). The Computerworld editorial team compiled this exhaustive list based on a comprehensive questionnaire focused on organization offerings such as benefits, diversity, career development, training and retention, as well as a worker satisfaction survey completed by a random sampling of IT employees at the participating organizations. The 100 winning organizations were then categorized by company size based on the number of employees (large, midsize, small).
“The 100 organizations on Computerworld’s 2015 Best Places to Work in IT list realize that attracting and retaining a highly skilled technology workforce leads to competitive advantage,” says Scot Finnie, editor in chief of Computerworld. “In a tight market for tech talent, these outstanding employers attract the best and brightest IT pros with generous salaries and top-drawer benefits, then deepen their teams’ engagement with challenging, business-critical projects built around cutting-edge technologies. As a result, these winning organizations are best positioned to take advantage of the digital transformation sweeping through every industry.”
What Defines a Top 100 Organization
Solidifying a spot on the Top 100 Best Places to Work in IT list goes beyond offering what are considered “standard benefits” (i.e., health insurance, paid vacation time and 401(k)/403(b) plans). Organizations offering reimbursement for technology certifications saw an increase this year with 99 of this year’s 100 organizations providing it to their IT employees. Additionally, organizations provided an average of 20 paid time-off days (vacation, sick, and personal, excluding holidays) after one year of service and 29 days after 10 years of service. Stress level is low among this year’s winning organizations with only 8% of surveyed employees claiming to be very stressed in the workplace. Eighty-eight percent of respondents from this year’s top 100 organizations claimed their IT department morale as good, very good or excellent.
Additional information about the 100 organizations named to the 2015 list, as well as the results of the 22nd annual Best Places to Work in IT survey, can be read on Computerworld.com. The website features articles on the three No. 1 organizations, a video profile of top companies for training, benefits, retention and career development, and new to this year’s coverage is a slideshow welcoming and introducing the 16 organizations new to the list. The website also features a smart tool that lets readers sort and filter the winners’ list, and an interactive map to find Best Places by region.
Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT 2015:
Large Organization Rankings (5,000+ employees)
- Quicken Loans
- USAA
- Erickson Living
- Sharp Healthcare
- Prudential Financial
- Owens Corning
- DHL Express US
- University of Notre Dame
- Genentech
- Principal Financial Group
- Altria
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medtronic
- HCA
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- VMware
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- CDW
- Cedars-Sinai Health System
- Humana
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Monsanto
- Adventist Health System
- Navy Federal Credit Union
- Southern Co.
- Jack Henry & Associates
- Cerner
- Grant Thornton
- CSX
- OhioHealth
- Cancer Treatment Centers of America
- McGladrey
- International Paper
- Northwestern Mutual
- DirecTV
- CA Technologies
- Palmetto Health
- AT&T
- Intermountain Healthcare
- Raytheon
- Applied Materials
- American University
- SAS
- McKesson
- ADP
- The Vanguard Group
- Nationwide
- BNSF Railway
- Edward Jones
- Verizon Wireless
- Carolinas HealthCare System
- AMC Theatres
- Cook Children’s Health Care System
- Chesapeake Energy
Midsize Organization Rankings (1,001 – 4,999 employees)
- Credit Acceptance
- Lafayette General Health
- Avanade
- Autodesk
- Nicklaus (formerly Miami) Children’s Hospital
- FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority)
- CHG Healthcare Services
- NuStar Energy
- Akamai
- Halifax Health
- Enova International
- Transocean
- Informatica
- American Fidelity Assurance
- DriveTime Automotive Group
- Genesis HealthCare System
- Securian Financial Group
- Los Angeles World Airports
Small Organization Rankings (1,000 or fewer employees)
- Noah Consulting
- Sev1Tech
- Commonwealth Financial Network
- Secure-24
- Connectria
- Axxess
- GlobalScape
- Bounce Exchange
- Liquidnet
- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
- Avaap
- Pekin Insurance
- National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC)
- Havi Global Solutions
- CFA Institute
- RKON Technologies
- Coca-Cola Enterprises
- SquareTwo Financial
- Zumasys
- Datto
- SimpliVity
- Rural Sourcing Inc.
- NIIT Technologies
- S&P Consultants, Inc.
- MetroStar Systems Inc.
- OCLC Online Computer Library Center
To learn more about Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT, and to nominate your organization for 2016, visit: http://bit.ly/1eqflpw. Nominations are open through December 2015. If you have questions about the program contact: bestplaces@computerworld.com.
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About the Best Places to Work in IT list
The Best Places to Work in Information Technology (IT) list is an annual ranking of the top 100 work environments for technology professionals by IDG’s Computerworld. The list is compiled based on a comprehensive questionnaire regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits, career development, training and retention. In addition, Computerworld conducts extensive surveys of IT workers, and their responses factor heavily in determining the rankings. Computerworld’s 2015 Best Places to Work in IT survey had 23,059 respondents to help determine this year’s top 100 list. The Best Places to Work in IT list is organized by company size based on the number of employees. Large organizations are classified as having 5,000 or more U.S. employees, while midsize organizations have between 1,001 and 4,999 U.S. employees and small organizations 1,000 or fewer U.S. employees. Some of the companies featured are divisions of larger, global organizations, though they may have a small U.S. footprint.
About Computerworld
Computerworld is the leading IT media brand helping Sr. IT, business decision-makers and key influencers navigate change with effective business strategy. Computerworld enables the IT value chain with unique editorial coverage from setting strategies to deriving value and continues to be the voice of business technology. Computerworld’s award-winning website (www.computerworld.com), publication, focused conference series, custom solutions and research forms the hub of the world’s largest (40+ edition) global IT media network and provides opportunities for IT vendors to engage this audience. Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of over 7.5 million monthly page views (Omniture, November 2014 – January 2015 average) and was recognized in BtoB’s 2013 Media Power 50 list; recognition Computerworld has received for more than 5 consecutive years. Computerworld is published by IDG Enterprise, a subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading media, events and research company. Company information is available at www.idgenterprise.com.
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