Our 2021 list of the 100 best companies to work for, as ranked by their employees. See which companies made the list.

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Though SAS’s revenues ticked lower during the pandemic, the analytics provider committed to not letting go of any employees directly impacted by the pandemic. The firm also kept its interns, moving its program online before the summer so students could still gain work experience. Additionally, the Cary, N.C.–based company provided analytics insights and resources about the pandemic to the public, and boosted employee wellness resources focused on mental health, family life, and for those taking care of elderly family members. Says one worker, “We have long been told that employees are the company’s most valuable assets, and the response to COVID 19 has proved that to be absolutely true.”

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Caring leaders at the Best Workplaces in Technology have been preparing their companies to thrive as the business world emerges from the COVID downturn.

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“SAS has responded to COVID-19 by using our technology and brain power to help communities. It's been an amazing thing to see. All employees have been encouraged to share ideas and participate.” 
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Companies on this year's list earned recognition based on surveys of 19.8 million employees worldwide.

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“I have felt extremely supported as a working mother during COVID-19. At home with a young child and working full time, I have been given flexibility and feel empowered to get my work done, and also be a good mother.”

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This year's list of best workplaces in technology value people, not just as employees, but as humans.

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Employees say: 
“SAS is more than just a company. This is a place that welcomes your family and friends. A place that encourages curiosity and individuality.” 
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Companies on this year's list earned national recognition in at least five different countries worldwide—and as many as 39 countries.

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Our 2019 list of the 100 best companies as ranked by their employees. See which companies made the list.

Companies on this year's list earned national recognition in at least five different countries worldwide—and as many as 33 countries.

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"Yes, the amenities are awesome, but the thing that is hard to quantify is the type of people SAS employs. I’m surrounded by kind, fun, helpful people who genuinely care about me, my success and our company’s success." 
 
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"My manager, my team and everyone I come in contact with has positively impacted me in some way. My manager is someone I consider to be so much more than my boss— through their leadership, patience and ability to teach. I have earned two promotions in the three years I have worked here. When I wake up in the morning, I can honestly say I look forward to coming to work. I LOVE my team, I love the people I have the honor of interacting with, and I love the work I do. I have so many close friends that dread waking up in the morning and going to work. I commute an hour and 10 minutes one way because my job means that much to me. I pull onto the property and there is beautiful landscaping and a security officer smiling and waving to welcome me in. When I enter my building, there is a receptionist who greets me every single morning with a big smiling "good morning Sunshine!" When I walk down to the break room for a cup of coffee, people who are rushing in to get their morning started still take the time to make small talk and tell you they hope you have a great day. We work a 35 hour work week whereas most companies work 40. Everything about SAS is unique. People out in the community who know I work for SAS will 10 out of 10 times say "wow, that's an amazing place to work!" All I can add to that is it has been even greater than I ever imagined it could be and I will continue to be a part of this family for as long as I am welcome." 
 
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Our 2017 list of the 100 best companies as ranked by their employees. See which companies made the list.

Fortune’s annual list of the 100 Best Workplaces for Women highlights companies with generous benefits, flexible schedules, and an emphasis on balancing work and life. 

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Employees say: "I feel that I've invested a lot with this company and have grown not only as a SAS employee but also as a person. It makes me feel good to see that they've invested in me too and have submitted my name for special training to help me to continue to grow." 
 
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"The work that I do is interesting and challenging and involves a variety of projects, so I feel that this both contributes to the company and provides me with an opportunity to grow. The company also embraces diversity; as a woman and a gay person, I am happy to work in a place that encourages me and acknowledges me as who I am." Read the .

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"I just turned 23 and I have responsibilities that far exceed my nominal level of experience. Management trusts and fully believes in the idea that millennials are the future of this company. I am able to soak up knowledge from individuals who have worked at SAS for many years. Not a lot of companies can offer that type of intangible asset to recent graduates looking to jumpstart their career." 
 
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"At SAS, there's a very unique sense of community throughout the entire company. This results in a work environment where everyone is generally helpful if someone makes a reasonable request of them. I routinely take five to 20 minutes out of my day to answer a question coming from another group. Also, I cannot express enough how amazing the healthcare and personal wellness benefits are. The staff who work at our health care center, pharmacy, work-life center, and fitness center really do care about my personal health." 
 
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Google/Alphabet is the No. 1 place to work for the seventh time in 10 years. Six newcomers include Veterans United at No. 30, Hilton Hotels at No. 56, and Slalom Consulting at No. 100. IKEA’s U.S. arm returns to the list, along with GoDaddy and Sheetz.

Fortune’s second annual list of the 100 Best Workplaces for Women highlights companies with generous benefits, flexible schedules, and an emphasis on balancing work and life. 

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"Focus on the health of the employee is paramount. There are awesome healthy food choices in all the cafes. They even offer packets of iodized salt (most restaurants have only non-iodized salt). ... The high caliber and the technical know-how of the people who support the systems and the customer is very impressive. I haven't seen a problem they cannot fix in relatively short order. Great brain trust." 
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"SAS has a unique and diverse group of talented employees—landscapers, daycare teachers, work-life advisors, doctors, nurses, physical therapists, personal trainers, artists, chefs, sales and marketing executives, research and development people, even community and education-relations groups. I am so proud of how important our families, work environment, culture, and community are to our owners. I love how our software also makes a difference across many diverse industries all around the world. We are solving the world's problems and making it a better place. ... The company's resources, benefits, programs, and co-workers have supported me through some very tough personal times during my 23 years at SAS. I am a stronger person for working here—personally and professionally." 
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This year’s list marks Fortune's 18th year of partnering with Great Place to Work. Google ranks No.1 for the sixth time, and 16 new companies make impressive debuts, including Acuity (No. 3), Twitter (No. 24), and Riot Games (No. 13).

The inaugural list of the 100 Best Workplaces for Women from our partners at Great Place to Work includes the wealth management firm TrueWealth at No.1, hospital system Texas Health Resources (No. 3), and Build-A-Bear Workshop (No. 10). Rankings were determined by employee surveys and the representation of women within the organizations.

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The analytic software company in Cary, N.C., offers a free, on-site healthcare center for employees and their dependents that takes care of primary health needs. The campus also includes a reduced-rate Montessori education and summer camp for employees' children as well as a fitness center that hosts more than 1,500 classes each year. While 42% of the workforce is female, women make up more than one-third of management and executive positions. 

The inaugural list of the 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials from our partners at Great Place to Work includes surprising newcomer Power Home Remodeling, making an impressive debut at No. 1. Other standouts include Chili’s Grill and Bar (no. 11), Elevation Church (No. 34), and Yelp (No. 41).

So many workplaces have a gym, but not so many have a swimming pool. Many workplaces have artwork, but not so many have artists in residence. The result? SAS employees are friendly, unique, and prefer to work together than alone. The company stresses teamwork and inquisitive commitment to technology. Add to that the unlimited sick days and an event called Awesome Aquatics Day. <a style="color:#ff0000;" href="http://us.greatrated.com/sas" target="_blank">Read the Great Place to Work review.</a>

Google tops the list once again, marking its eighth appearance and fifth time as No. 1.

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Sebastian Siemiatowski has achieved something few founders ever do: he’s brought a private company to the public market. Now, if you want, you can own a piece of Klarna. But still, to Sebastian, the day he visited Walmart Founder Sam Walton’s grave in Arkansas will always be more exciting than ringing the NYSE bell. On this episode of Term Sheet, Sebastian talks about how being from a Polish immigrant family in Sweden led him to idolize Walmart, Klarna’s bigger than BNPL business model, and how the future financial services will embrace AI and put the customer back in the driver’s seat.

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Walmart is making a big change in how it operates—and it starts in Bentonville, Arkansas. Fortune gets an inside look at the retail giant’s brand-new, 350-acre campus. Long known for its no-frills roots, Walmart is now investing big in its hometown to attract top-tier talent, modernize its culture, and compete with tech giants like Amazon. Here’s a closer look at how the United States’ largest employer is reinventing itself.

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Walmart is making a big change in how it operates—and it starts in Bentonville, Arkansas. Fortune gets an inside look at the retail giant’s brand-new, 350-acre campus. 

This 350 acre campus is the site of Walmart's new headquarters, a huge bet on in-person work. This home base is a big tool for talent attraction as well. And it's all taking shape here in Bentonville, Arkansas. The ability to recruit talent is so much easier now that we have built our campus. People really have the desire to come together. With over $600 billion in annual revenue and 1.6 million US employees, Walmart is both the nation's largest company and its largest private employer, but it's also faced a lot of questions over its labor practices, store wages, and whether it can compete with Amazon. Now the company is turning inward, investing heavily in an amenity-packed headquarters meant to attract top tier talent and reshape its corporate culture. This sprawling new campus includes 12 office buildings, workout facilities, 2 miles of bike trails, a childcare center, and even a hotel. The facilities opened officially in January, but the rollout will continue in phases throughout 2025. So this is our campus welcome center. It's got our first original Walmart sign and kind of size to the very early Walmart stores for the company. Walmart's roots run deep in northwest Arkansas, where Sam Walton opened the first store in 1962. Since then, the region has been the heart and soul of the retail giant. Company and the board said we're going to invest in a new place to work. It's really easy for us to decide we're staying in Bentonville, a place that built us. In the last 10 years, quite a few large companies have inaugurated new headquarters. Was there anything out there, you know, common mistake that you said, you know, you can learn from others in advance. Is there anything that you said, OK, well, let's let's avoid that. So other campuses that were doing larger urban settings or maybe sort of had the luxury of being Walled off from their community we knew we didn't want to be that we knew that the lines between work and life continued to blur and great company campuses can be very productive spaces and stay alive in the evenings and the weekends. So for us we knew that we didn't want to kind of single ourselves away. In fact, we went all the way in the other direction and we've really tried to make it feel like this campus is great for Walmart and great for Bentonville. This is a great example of a bike garden, so these are at every entry, covered bike parking. Our aspiration is to get 10% of our associates actively commuting through alternate ways. That focus on merging Walmart in Bentonville has helped to find the look and feel of the campus, but it's not just changing Walmart, it's transforming Bentsonville. Since 2020, the county population has increased by 13%, and the average home price has gone up over 70%. And it's not just home prices. Residents are seeing an increase in property taxes and the cost of water doubling. And as the Waltons continue to announce new investments, there are no signs of Northwest Arkansas seeing a slowdown in growth. So I want to connect this a little bit to Bentonville. Bentonville, I was shocked when I took my taxi and saw a population of 54,000, whatever it is, and it was pretty sleepy not long ago. It's not a metropolis yet, you know, but is it part of that idea that people can come to Bentonville and have a lot of the amenities that they would find. In a Seattle or in a New York City, I would argue it's even better than Seattle or other places because the sentiment that we hear from the recruiting side is that this is a town where people feel like it has that small town feel, you know, it does really feel like you're building, you're coming into a community, but it does have Access to a lot of the larger city amenities if you look at our beautiful healthcare center, the beautiful green space we have access to great food, great restaurants, culture museums, it really does have it all, if you will. So while it might not be the big metropolis, you know, of a New York or other places, it really has the Best of both worlds. So from your point of view, what is it about the facilities that fosters the culture and interaction, because you know a physical space is a physical space, and there has to be, you can't just say, OK, all of you go work in these buildings and you'll have a culture and you'll collaborate more. So what has to accompany the physical amenities? Speaking as a talent person, I will say you have to have the right talent in the right roles. That's like job number one. But I will also say going back, gosh, during the pandemic when all of the spaces were being designed and they solicited input from the experts in learning, right, the experts in tech, etc. So it really was designed with the, how shall I say, end user in mind, of which is the associate. It's all part of a transformation Walmart hopes will help redefine its image from legacy retail giant to forward thinking employer of choice. This is a place we call the library. May you asked me if there was anything we changed during the pandemic, and this is a great illustration of a lesson learned, maybe an enhancement that we made. You spent years with people in their homes, in their offices, in their living rooms, on their patios, and I've learned a lot about our associates just from zooming with them in this space made me realize people really embrace the residential nature of their home. They like to have comfortable places to occupy. So tell us a bit about the former Home Office, which had been the Home Office for what, about 50 years, more or less a quite a long time. Yes. What were the shortcomings there that guided, you think the construction of all this and to your mind is more conducive to the culture, I think the The challenge with the old home office, it was, it was wonderful. It suited our culture. I think the challenge with the older campus was it was a bit spread out, so it was probably a little less convenient, you know, to interact and connect and collaborate than obviously this new campus is doing. The old Walmart home office was housed in a former warehouse. There was minimal light and reflected the frugal ethos of the company. To get a better sense of the past, I went to the Walmart Museum in the town square. It's filled with artifacts like Sam Walton's truck and office and even has a Sam Walton hologram. We're going to go inside, have a look at some of the historical high points of this company and what has created the culture that the new home office recently opened seeks to preserve and enhance. So here we are looking at a replica of Sam Walton's original office that was housed at the previous Home Office with the common thread. You know, one thing Walmart always talks about is our values are timeless, but change is constant, and one of the things that I'm really proud about as a 23 year Walmart associate is. The investment in new workspaces, being able to bring all of our teams together. Historically in Bentonville we've been spread out across 29 buildings all over town and the new home office brings all those different teams together to really unlock being more effective and efficient in person. Really. Let me introduce myself. My name is Sam. For decades, Walmart's focus was outward, pouring billions into logistics, supply chain infrastructure, and international expansion. It was all part of a race to stay ahead of rivals like Amazon, whose dominance in e-commerce has reshaped how Americans shop. And now that many of the largest companies in the country have built state of the art headquarters, Walmart has felt the pressure to keep up. I think coming out of the. pandemic, there's a real need and desire for people to connect with each other, to create community, come together to grow and learn, and I think the campus, the way that it's been designed, has really facilitated that already. So that's what I think the overarching purpose is. You know, there was a time, for example, some of the e-commerce teams were out west and You know, it can be a little disparity. It's the idea here to create one unified Walmart, you know, we're not talking about the store employees, but The corpus, is that the idea behind all of this? Yeah, I think yes, and we're still going to have hubs. We have hubs on the west coast where a lot of our tech talent is, East Coast in New Jersey. We have teams there as well, but the goal is, you know, our culture is present anywhere where we are, and so we'll continue to have that. And go to where the talent is, but know that those teams also come here and work together as well. So this is sort of the heartbeat, if you will, of Walmart, but now that we have other locations where we'll continue to, you know, build our teams as well. You have a sense of what tech talent wants or what, you know, somebody who would be going. A luxury retailer wants. So the point of all this as well is to give those employees the amenities that in a way the market says people with their skills should have access to. Yeah, absolutely. The candidates that we're bringing here, they are inspired, and I think the inspiration comes from not just the beauty of the campus, the green spaces, etc. but it's The ease in which we can connect now on campus. In fact, our sentiment data that's shared with us, our candidates that come in are 3 times more likely to be open to moving to Northwest Arkansas because they've come here, they've visited, they've experienced the area, they've experienced our campus, and they feel our culture.

Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses, a former Square executive, bought the Kansas City–based bank to address compliance and technology challenges facing fintechs.

Why one of fintech’s most powerful women bought a 95-year-old community bank

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What made it really easy for us for people to say like, of course, you did like go, you, I'm not surprised. Of course you bought a bank, Jackie. It's one of those very funny things that I like if I tell people, they'll say like you, you bought a bank, like just, you know, unless you know me from square, it's such a weird thing to say like, yes, I own a bank. I went and bought a bank. But when you understand the story of like having built one from zero, you know, from an idea that I had it kind of feels obvious welcome to leadership next, the podcast about the changing rules of business leadership. I'm Alan Murray and I'm mia people who know you will associate you with fintech and Square in particular. Um But not necessarily with a, you know, nearly 100 year old community bank in Kansas City. So explain the strategy because not every fintech company has a bank. In fact, none of them do. Ironically, it's very hard to merge the two because the strategy around both of them are almost diametrically opposite in both in both business lines. So for me when I was at square, one of the things I experienced was extreme pain and frustration and working with bank partners. And what most people don't realize is the financial infrastructure products that they have in their wallets every day. So debit cards, credit cards, you know, loans that they might take out 100% of them are built in the banking system. There's always an underlying bank involved with every transaction with the evolution of fintech. People think of fintech is like the front end of that relationship. Like you have a relationship with a firm, you have a relationship with, you know XYZ fintech company, it could be paypal square chime ramp, you name it. And so um that's the way people think about it. But underneath there is the infrastructure that helps build those products. And so that's what we do. And so that's where I had this challenging situation where we would connect with banks that were very traditional banks and they weren't used to dealing with technology partners like us. And so I decided that I would go by a bank to do this with the technology angle and the substance of compliance knowledge from the environment of like what is it like to be a customer? What is it like to be involved and support what regulators are asking of us but translate it through the lens of understanding both sides of that puzzle so that we could deliver a really unique experience to our clients, our clients are, you know, huge fintech and consumer companies or are scaling fintech where they all want to run highly compliant programs because they are highly successful companies. But they want someone who can operate at the same speed that they can. And so that's how I've merged the two sides of the business. You know, we have a really strong team that sits in compliance and legal, really strong team in finance, really strong team in engineering and product. And the engineering and product piece is usually the piece that most community banks don't have. And our engineering team is second to none in the banking industry. They're fantastic. Um And they understand how to build primitives to support banking in a way that most, you know, most banks don't have. It's, it's pretty cool. I have to say what we're doing is pretty unique in the United States. What kinds of other products, tech products and tech products are you currently developing? Like where, where are you focusing your energy? It always sounds really silly to say because it's like master the obvious, I feel like I'm talking about products that have been around for 5000 years. First of all, they're all API S. So they're direct connections with our clients through API S and they are around core banking primitives in lending, in money movement in issuing. And so it sounds kind of funny to say like, oh, we focus on money movement. That's kind of what we do. But it's, and, and just to clarify though, you're talking about API S, you're developing tools that your customers can use to develop their own tools basically. And they embedded into the, the products you would never know that we exist. Except for if you look at the back of a lot of people's debit cards and credit cards. This is why it's one of these funny businesses like everyone uses us, but no one realizes they do. If you look at the bottom of a debit card or credit card, you're like, oh, issued by, huh? There's some bank on there. And interestingly a lot of the banks that those cards are issued on are usually small banks located in the middle of the country. And so we're one of those small banks located in the middle of the country.

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