Apple falls to 36th place on Glassdoor's annual Best Places to Work chart
Despite being one of the most valuable corporations in the world, Apple has slipped to 36th place in Glassdoor's annual "Best Places to Work" rankings for large-scale businesses, as determined by employee ratings.
Last year the company occupied 25th place, and the year prior, 22nd. Its current position is the lowest since Apple first made it onto the Best Places list in 2009. Its highest point came in 2012, when it reached 10th.
Some high-tech companies above Apple in the latest list include Facebook (#2), Google (#4), Adobe (#9), Salesforce (#17), Intuit (#20), DocuSign (#23), Akamai (#25), Zillow (#29), Nvidia (#30), and Airbnb (#35). Leading the chart is the multinational consulting firm Bain & Company.
It's not clear what led to Apple's decline, but while reviewers have been positive about aspects like benefits, a recurring complaint is a lack of work-life balance, since some teams demand extremely long hours that can keep people away from friends and family.
Last year the company occupied 25th place, and the year prior, 22nd. Its current position is the lowest since Apple first made it onto the Best Places list in 2009. Its highest point came in 2012, when it reached 10th.
Some high-tech companies above Apple in the latest list include Facebook (#2), Google (#4), Adobe (#9), Salesforce (#17), Intuit (#20), DocuSign (#23), Akamai (#25), Zillow (#29), Nvidia (#30), and Airbnb (#35). Leading the chart is the multinational consulting firm Bain & Company.
It's not clear what led to Apple's decline, but while reviewers have been positive about aspects like benefits, a recurring complaint is a lack of work-life balance, since some teams demand extremely long hours that can keep people away from friends and family.
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- everyone acted mellow, to reflect hippie/surf culture
- but many of those same people privately had therapists and marital problems
Just an interesting anecdote...
As for the divorce statistic, it's not an excuse for allowing the workforce to be abused.
If you have to defend your wording, maybe you should try again with different wording.
But, wait, you're still hostile to "losers", people who "couldn't cut it", and fine with the abuse of entire work forces if they don't meet your standard of "working hard", so I guess it's just that you're superficially reversing course in the one area you already recognized your behavior was out of order (because almost everyone here was pushing back on you for your irrationally hostile attitudes about Cook).
And yes, if you do a 180° shift from one extreme to another, people will, and should, notice and comment.
oh but wait, no one "cares" about Apple Store employees...
/whipcrack
"More work, less surveys! People want their AirPods and Mac Pro refreshes!"
/whipcrack
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/whipcrack