W
hile the spate of large-scale layoffs that befell Big Tech last year appears to have abated, workers are hardly in the clear. At least 139 tech companies have laid off a collective total of more than 34,000 employees already this year, according to Layoffs.fyi—including industry giants Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and Meta.
The downsizing, however, doesn’t seem to have soured their employees on their workplaces—or so our recent analysis of more than 170,000 U.S.-based workers would suggest. In fact, employees rated Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and Meta so favorably that each has landed on our list of America’s Best Large Employers 2024.
The annual ranking, produced in partnership with market research firm Statista, is the product of a survey of employees at American companies. Organizations with 1,000 to 5,000 employees were deemed midsize employers while the companies with more than 5,000 employees were considered large. Survey respondents were asked to rate their employer, and if they would recommend their employer to others.
Responses were given by current employees, employees who had worked for the company within the past two years, and individuals familiar with the company through friends, family or peers in their industry. Greater weight was given to evaluations from current employees and former employees. New to the methodology this year was the inclusion of data from the past three years—with more recent data weighted more heavily—to better identify companies that have been rated well consistently over time.
All survey responses were tallied to produce a score for each company, and the 1,000 organizations with the highest scores landed on our final lists—400 on America’s Best Midsize Employers 2024, and 600 on America’s Best Large Employers 2024 (see below).
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As with all Forbes lists, companies pay no fee to be considered. For questions about this list, please contact listdesk [at] forbes [dot] com.
