| | Boston Consulting Group, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Booz Allen Hamilton, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche USA have been named on Fortune magazine's 11th annual "100 Best Companies to Work For" list. According to the magazine, one driving factor among companies selected for the list this year is how they excel in creating jobs. The 100 companies on the 2008 list added 67,000 employees to their payrolls in the past | |
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| | year and employ a total of nearly 1.6m staff, Fortune reported. This total was 16% higher than the number employed by companies comprising last year's list.
Fortune and The Great Place to Work Institute, an independent research firm, used a rigorous selection process that based two-thirds of scoring on a confidential survey distributed to randomly selected company employees.
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Companies are scored in a number of areas, including management's credibility, job satisfaction and camaraderie.
The Boston Consulting Group is ranked 11th on the list, the highest of the consultancies, and it was named the best "small" company for the second straight year. The company has been ranked near the top of the Top 100 list for the third year in a row.
Ernst & Young LLP has been named one the list | |
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| | for the 10th year in a row. The firm ranks number 57 on the list of 100 companies, and ranks number 18 on the large company list. Ernst & Young is the only Big Four firm that has been on the list for 10 consecutive years.
KPMG moved up 26 places this year – to rank 71st on the full 2008 list – and 23rd among large-sized companies. Booz Allen Hamilton is ranked at number 81, followed by PricewaterhouseCoopers | |
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| | at number 90.
For the ninth year, Deloitte & Touche LLP has been named on the list, which is considered as the national benchmark that lists employers who consistently raise the bar on talent initiatives and corporate culture improvement for all employees. This year the company is ranked 95th.
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