Business & Tech
Tri-Valley Company Among Best To Work For
See which companies topped Fortune's list from California in 2020.
PLEASANTON, CA — The business magazine Fortune, in partnership with analytics firm Great Place to Work, has released its annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in the United States.
Hilton took home the top spot on the list for the second year in a row, with Ultimate Software and Wegmans Food Markets rounding out the top three.
Pleasanton had one of the best companies to work for in the nation, according to Fortune.
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Workday
- Industry: 5
- Rank last year: 4
- Employees: 8,846
- Percentage of women: 42
- Percentage of minorities: 43
- Revenue in 2019: $2.8 billion
To be considered for the list, companies submitted an application detailing over 200 data points describing their HR programs and practices. Great Place to Work, an analytics firm that has partnered with Fortune to create the list for the past 23 years, then conducted an anonymous survey of each company's workforce.
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In total, 85 percent of the evaluation was based on what employees reported in the survey about “their experiences of trust and reaching their full human potential as part of their organization,” according to a methodology section for the rankings on Fortune’s website.
Companies need to employ at least 1,000 U.S. employees to be considered for the list, and government agencies aren’t eligible.
You can read the full methodology here.
Here are the top 10 companies to work for in the United States in 2020, according to Fortune:
- Hilton
- Ultimate Software
- Wegmans Food Markets
- Cisco
- Workday
- Salesforce
- Edward Jones
- Stryker
- American Express
- Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
The full list of companies on the 2020 list is available on Fortune.
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated Workday's 2019 revenue.
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