A little refresher here from the Great Place To Work Institute as reported in USA Today a few weeks ago..

Insurance provider Acuity has been ranked at the top of the medium-sized business list by the Great Place to Work Institute. The institute looks at factors that make up the best workplaces and recently released its first-ever list of multinational companies with the happiest employees. The top five slots went to Microsoft, software firm SAS, data management company NetApp, Google, and FedEx. The highest-ranking firms tended to share three traits: employee trust in management, pride in the company, and camaraderie with coworkers. When choosing the best multinational workplace, Great Place to Work examined applications from 350 firms with at least 5,000 employees worldwide and 40 percent of workers based outside their home country. Applicants also had to have made at least five of the group’s regional “best workplace” lists. Deciding factors included health benefits, employee turnover, use of flex time, and how companies maintained employee trust during rough times, such as the way they conducted layoffs. While pay helps with motivation, it has not been found to be a primary driver among employees. Workers often say that respectful treatment is more important than pay, as is work/life balance, type of work, quality of coworkers, and quality of leadership.

There you have it. Money matters but so does leadership and money without leadership actually doesn’t go very far.

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