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The
50 Best Companies
To Work For In Canada
If you think there is a simple recipe for becoming a top-ranked employer, you
won't find it in this year's Best Companies survey. As in the...
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It's
not easy being good these days, at least if you're an employer. Suffering
through the recession, American businesses have cut back on everything, which
means they've slashed perks and fired lots of workers. In this dark time of
cuts and layoffs, what makes a company fit for FORTUNE's list of the 50 Best
Companies to Work For? We gave companies credit for coming up with creative
ways to keep employees satisfied, and for offering generous severance and
compassion when they had to make cuts. These companies also rose to the
occasion following the tragedy of Sept.11, and that is what being one of 50
Best is all about.
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| Rank |
Company |
Number of Employees |
| 1 |
Edward Jones |
27,092 |
| 2 |
Container Store |
1,987 |
| 3 |
SAS Institute |
8,309 |
| 4 |
TDIndustries |
1,368 |
| 5 |
Synovus Financial Corp. |
11,022 |
| 6 |
Xilinx |
2,649 |
| 7 |
Plante & Moran |
1,240 |
| 8 |
Qualcomm |
6,314 |
| 9 |
Alston & Bird |
1,338 |
| 10 |
Baptist Health Care |
4,068 |
| 11 |
Frank Russell |
1,397 |
| 12 |
Hypertherm |
604 |
| 13 |
CDW Computer Centers |
2,781 |
| 14 |
Fenwick & West |
626 |
| 15 |
Cisco Systems |
37,546 |
| 16 |
Granite Rock |
792 |
| 17 |
Beck Group |
652 |
| 18 |
East Alabama Medical Center |
1,846 |
| 19 |
Goldman Sachs Group |
22,585 |
| 20 |
JM Family Enterprises |
3,227 |
| 21 |
International Data Group (IDG) |
11,113 |
| 22 |
Stew Leonard's |
1,729 |
| 23 |
American Century |
2,937 |
| 24 |
J.M. Smucker |
2,380 |
| 25 |
Vision Service Plan |
2,283 |
| 26 |
MBNA |
27,907 |
| 27 |
Adobe Systems |
3,017 |
| 28 |
Microsoft |
49,675 |
| 29 |
Valassis Commun. |
1,546 |
| 30 |
Duncan Aviation |
1,898 |
| 31 |
Agilent Technologies |
40,795 |
| 32 |
Capital One Financial |
19,868 |
| 33 |
AFLAC |
5,744 |
| 34 |
W.L.Gore & Associates |
6,099 |
| 35 |
Deloitte & Touche |
29,154 |
| 36 |
Third Federal S&L |
1,017 |
| 37 |
SRA International |
1,746 |
| 38 |
VHA |
1,417 |
| 39 |
Pella |
6,884 |
| 40 |
MITRE |
4,907 |
| 41 |
Patagonia |
812 |
| 42 |
Paychex |
7,406 |
| 43 |
Griffin Hospital |
1,111 |
| 44 |
SEI Investments |
1,963 |
| 45 |
Intuit |
6,587 |
| 46 |
Charles Schwab |
19,477 |
| 47 |
Alcon Laboratories |
11,695 |
| 48 |
Whole Foods Market |
21,514 |
| 49 |
Intel |
89,792 |
| 50 |
Sun Microsystems |
39,020 |
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