Corporations Best To Work For (Forbes)

With more than 500 million active users around the world, more than 1,700 employees and five seat in the world, the social networking giant Facebook now holds a new title.

Glassdoor.com, employment and community where people share information and opinions on the places where they work, unveiled just its third annual Employees career ' Choice Awards, top lists top 50 best places to work based on surveys collected used for 2010. 50 Honoured employers, 16 have been on the list for each of the past three years, but are 21 new him this year, including the No. 1 company: Facebook.

Unlike many awards focus on the workplace, which require appoint companies is auto, the Employees' Choice Awards rely solely on the contribution of employees to anonymously provide feedback through a survey. The survey goes only to the United States employees, but many companies have workers around the world.

"The magic of the Glassdoor, is that we get to hear stories of employees in their own words," explains Glassdoor founder and CEO, Robert Hohman. "I think, especially in times of recession, that it is a worthy and noble recognize companies such as these." Choice Awards is really about what employees employees.

Classification of firms top page was determined taking a cumulative average score of all employees who responded to the 20-question survey between December 1, 2009 and December 2010. The investigation focuses on eight themes work: balanced work/life, career opportunities, communication, compensation and benefits, equity compliance, the employee morale, recognition and feedback and senior executives.

President and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and his company stood much criticism from the public and the press, this year, but their employees give us a different image. Facebook has led the pack with a set of company rating 4.6 of 5 possible while Zuckerberg himself obtained a score of 96% of its employees confidence.

Facebook business analyst based in Palo Alto, California, who participated in the investigation congratulated the environment, people and opportunities to Facebook. Employee wrote: "I really like the pace we to-it s so much going on, and there are a lot of trust inherent in people to run with what they do." Policies and procedures in the previous companies sometimes feeling a bit left choked on what I could work on and share, but it's really a sense of openness to Facebook, not only in the communication, but the ability to jump into projects that call to you as well. »

It is no mystery why these employees are so happy. Paid for the days of vacation, free food and transportation, $4,000 cash accounting for new parents, dry cleaning, reimbursement of care day and photo processing services are some of the benefits of working at Facebook. "I am surprised that Facebook is beginner just this year," Hohman says. "Facebook is on the aesthetics of its users and employees take pride in that." This is what makes it the best company to work.

Southwest Airlines (LUV - news - people), who topped list of 2010 is the second in 2011, with a 4.4 rating and approval of 95% rating company for its President and CEO, Gary c. Kelly. With a network of nearly 35,000 employees in 35 States, Southwest is proud to provide its workers freedom to be creative, dress casually and have fun on the job. Not to mention that the employees and their spouses, parents and eligible dependent children fly free of charge.