SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network on the internet, announced today the 2019 LinkedIn Top Companies list, identifying the companies where LinkedIn’s 610+ million global members most want to work.
Alphabet (No. 1), which reclaimed the top spot this year, Facebook (No. 2) and Amazon (No. 3) maintain a strong hold on the top three spots despite their challenges over the last year. Meanwhile, Tesla (No. 16) drops out of the top 10 for the first time in the list’s four-year history. While technology companies continue to dominate the list, industries making a resurgence include financial services -- with Bank of America (No. 18), Citi (No. 22) and Wells Fargo (No. 25) making the list -- and advertising -- with representation from Interpublic Group (No. 31), Publicis Groupe (No. 34) and WPP (No. 40), all for the first time.
“More than half a billion professionals around the world rely on LinkedIn to navigate their careers and stay informed," says Daniel Roth, Editor in Chief, LinkedIn. "Top Companies takes all of those actions and surfaces the companies where people most want to work — and where they stay once hired. The competition for top talent has never been hotter; now in its 4th year, Top Companies has become the definitive list of who is attracting the right people and how they're doing it."
Here is what the top 10 companies on the 2019 LinkedIn Top Companies list are doing to attract job seekers:
- Alphabet (No. 1) is spending $13 billion to expand into 14 new U.S. states this year, where it will hire tens of thousands of new employees.
- Facebook (No. 2) has 100% pay equity for female employees in the U.S. and globally.
- Amazon (No. 3) raised its minimum wage in November to $15 per hour for all employees and expanded its 401(k) contributions to include part-time and seasonal workers.
- Salesforce (No. 4) offers opportunity to workers without a college degree, including roles for a Senior Marketing Specialist and a Senior Lead Content Writer.
- Deloitte (No. 5) actively invests in their employees by incentivizing them to pitch big, ambitious ideas in the Startup Deloitte program.
- Uber (No. 6) is fostering internal mobility, encouraging more than 3,000 employees to transfer to a different role in the company in 2018.
- Apple (No. 7) plans to create 20,000 new jobs over the next five years across its existing campuses and build an all-new campus in Austin.
- Airbnb (No. 8) encourages its employees to get out of the office and into the world with $500 in employee travel credits each quarter, which roll over if not used.
- Oracle (No. 9) offers technology job opportunities to workers outside of Silicon Valley with over 90% of their employees based outside of their San Francisco headquarters.
- Dell Technologies (No. 10) prides itself on its flexible workplace policy, which collectively saves U.S. employees 136 million miles of travel a year.
The complete U.S. Top Companies list, along with lists representing additional global markets, video interviews and special features, can be found here: lnkd.in/USTopCompanies2019
LinkedIn Top Companies Methodology:
The Top Companies list
is fueled by the billions of actions taken by 610M+ members on the
platform over the past year. The editorial team at LinkedIn analyzes
member actions through four main criteria: reach, engagement, job
interest and retention. A detailed description of the methodology is
published within the LinkedIn Top Companies article. LinkedIn’s global
editorial team also publishes the Top Companies lists in Canada, Mexico,
UK, France, Germany, Brazil, China, Japan and Australia.
*For fairness, we have removed LinkedIn and Microsoft from consideration for the LinkedIn Top Companies list as we do with all other lists in this editorial franchise.
About LinkedIn:
LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals
to make them more productive and successful and transforms the way
companies hire, market and sell. Our vision is to create economic
opportunity for every member of the global workforce through the ongoing
development of the world’s first Economic Graph. LinkedIn has more than
610 million members and has offices around the globe.
