BEST 10 COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN AUSTRALIA
WHEN IT COMES to work , the only thing more important than having a job is having it somewhere you like . This includes being employed somewhere where you are appreciated , where perks and benefits make life that much brighter and where remuneration is competitive . While the perfect workplace does not exist , there are always a handful of companies that take special care of their employees in a variety of ways . Yet , sometimes it can be hard to identify the companies where it ’ s easy to arrive and leave with a smile . As a result , Business Review Australia has conducted its own investigation of the 10 best places to work .
Methodology : I used four criteria to determine this list . The company ’ s rank on Job Advisor Australia , its grade on the social responsibility index , calculated by Reputex in 2005 , the percentage of employees who would recommend the company to a friend and the CEO ’ s employee approval percentage — the latter two criteria according to Glassdoor . To determine the company ’ s rank on Job Advisor , I divided its score out of five by the number of reviews it had . The fewest number of reviews a company had on this list was 37 ( Suncorp ) and the most was 200 ( Woolworths ). Reputex graded a corporation ’ s social responsibility index based on the A-F model , but it also had AA and AAA ratings . I assigned a value to each grade — an AAA was worth seven points , a B two points — and ranked them accordingly . I only considered companies who were on Reputex ’ s list , by the way . I used Glassdoor ’ s data by calculating the average of the company ’ s two variables described previously . Finally , for each of these three criteria — the Job Advisor score , the Reputex grade , and the Glassdoor average — I scored the companies from 1 through 10 . So , for example , Suncorp scored highest on the Job Advisor index , so they received 10 points . Woolworths scored the lowest , so they garnered 1 point . Finally , I added a company ’ s comprehensive points received and divided it by three — for the number of criteria — thus arriving at an average . This average is the score you ’ ll see next to each company .
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