January 27, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
Google, famed for its free sushi lunches, nabbed the top spot on Fortune magazine’s annual 100 Best Companies to Work For
list.
But the ranking of the country’s best worker-friendly employers wasn’t populated only by big companies. In fact, a larger-than-expected number of nonprofit organizations made Fortune’s cut, Tom Durso, a freelance writer, notes on the blog The 501c Files.
Most of the nonprofit organizations on the list are health-care groups, with Methodist Hospital System in Houston landing highest at No. 10.
Eleven other health-related charities — including the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and Scripps Health in San Diego — are also on the list. And two other nonprofit organizations, the research firm Mitre in McLean, Va., and the Navy Federal Credit Union in Vienna, Va., make the cut.
“It’s terrific to see as commercially focused a publication as Fortune acknowledge that the benefits of working for nonprofits — focus on mission, diversity of employees, child-care perks, and such — can be as attractive as the number that appears on one’s paycheck,” Mr. Durso writes.
What makes your organization a good place to work — or what steps does it need to take to make it the kind of place where everyone wants a job.
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