Falls Church Employer Named A Top Workplace For 2018

FALLS CHURCH, VA—A Falls Church employer is among the top workplaces in the region, according to The Washington Post's newest ranking.

The Post ranked 150 companies based on the highest ratings from employees. After the public nominated companies with at least 50 employees in the fall, 2,807 DC area employers were invited to take an employee survey. The survey looked at 24 factors, from effectiveness to managers and engagement. 341 companies in all took the survey.

Hitt Contracting, a construction company in the West Falls Church area, was ranked fifth on the list. The company has 658 local employees and 998 total employees. Founded in 1937, different generations of the Hitt family have run the company.

One Hitt Contracting employee wrote in the survey, "HITT is a family. The owners care about their employees and prove [that] by their actions and not just words."

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Here are the top 10 workplaces for 2018 in the DC region:

• Appian (Reston)
• Great American Restaurants (Fairfax)
• FireEye (Reston)
• WilmerHale (Washington, DC)
• Hitt Contracting (Falls Church)
• Jim Koons Automotive (DC, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware)
• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (Washington, DC)
• ActioNet (Vienna)
• MIL Corporation (Bowie, Md.)
• Century 21 New Millennium (DC, Maryland and Virginia)

See all of the Top Workplaces for 2018 here.

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