Glassdoor.com just announced its second annual Employees’ Choice Awards for best—and worst—places to work. Nearly 100,000 employees completed a 20-question survey on the site in 2009. Survey questions addressed employee attitudes about career opportunities, communication, compensation and benefits, employee morale, recognition and feedback, senior leadership, work/life balance, and fairness and respect. Once the overall ratings are calculated, Glassdoor.com may exclude a company from the list for detrimental acts by management or other negative company events.

This list is obviously not scientific but it does provide a general sense of who does well or poorly on employee engagement. At the Glassdoor.com Web site, you can click on a company in the list or search by company name and get more details about how many people rated it and their pros, cons, and advice to senior management.

The top 25 best places to work are:

1. Southwest Airlines
2. General Mills
3. Slalom Consulting
4. Bain & Company
5. McKinsey & Company
6. MITRE
7. Boston Consulting
8. Continental Airlines
9. Procter & Gamble
10. Juniper Networks
11. Northwestern Mutual
12. Kraft Foods
13. National Instruments
14. Google
15. NetApp
16. Goldman Sachs
17. FactSet
18. Medtronic
19. Publix
20. Chevron
21. FedEx
22. Apple
23. Edelman
24. Edward Jones
25. QUALCOMM

Companies in the next 25 included Caterpillar (#35), Turner Broadcasting (#36), Intel (#41), Best Buy (#45), and Whole Foods (#48).

The 10 worst companies to work for, according to Glassdoor.com, are:

1. Gibson Guitar
2. United Airlines
3. Spherion
4. AutoZone
5. Rain Bird
6. DHL Express (USA)
7. Level 3 Communications
8. Dominion Enterprises
9. Hertz
10. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To learn more about employee satisfaction, read:

• 10 Critical Questions: Your Workforce
• Bottom-Line Value of Employee Engagement
• 10 Steps to a Successful Workplace
• Effective Employee Communication
• What Employees Want

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