Technology companies fare well on the list but do not dominate it. True, Google (GOOG) is at the top, for the sixth consecutive year. I wrote the cover story the first time Google topped our list, in 2007. It had a memorable title, “Search and Enjoy.” Then, as now, Google lavished benefits on its employees, making them feel special, pampered, stimulated, well-fed—and eager to work hard. Google has perfected the art of creating a felicitous workplace that is difficult for companies without its cash flow to emulate. (It also is sweet to be a Google spouse, which I am. I was not one a decade ago when I wrote that article.)

Two other tech companies made our top 10: Salesforce.com (GOOG), a marketing machine that views employee satisfaction as a point of differentiation, and Ultimate Software (ULTI), a Florida maker of human resources programs. An Ultimate employee referenced the “love” they feel for one another in a survey response supporting the company’s application to Fortune.

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Given the prominence of tech companies in the economy, non-tech commands more attention in the best workplaces competition. Grocer Wegmans Food Markets (WEGMANS-FOOD-MARKETS) is a perennial on our list. Boston Consulting Group ranks No. 3, an impressive feat for a consulting firm, an industry known for its grind-it-out workload.

An interesting word comes up a lot in our introduction to the package, which was edited, by the way, by Anne VanderMey, a behind-the-scenes powerhouse at Fortune. That word is trust. Companies that trust their employees not only make for a better workplace but also do better financially than companies that don’t.