Apple employees love CEO Tim Cook, rate company highly on outlook, culture & values
A new survey of tech workers places the highest optimism at Apple, where employees believe their company will continue to have a bright future ahead of it under the leadership of Tim Cook.
UBS Evidence Lab polled employees at major tech firms and had them evaluate their workplace. The survey found that Apple was far and away the leader among companies surveyed, taking first place in all categories assessed.
As part of the poll, employees were asked about business outlook, culture, values, management, and their corporation's CEO. Analyst Steven Milunovich said he believes these "soft" factors are important, since financial reports indicate what's already been done.
Coming out particularly strong in the UBS ratings was Cook, Apple's CEO, who rated higher among employees than the rest of the company's management team.
To Milunovich, the strong assessment of Apple by its own employees bodes well for the Mac maker's future. The analyst said he was not surprised that Apple took first place among the companies polled, beating out second-place finisher EMC.
Other companies surveyed, in the order they placed, were NetApp, Cognizant, Accenture, HP, and IBM. Only HP and IBM finished below the industry average, according to UBS.
IBM, in particular, came in last in each category, with employee confidence in management especially low. Milunovich said cultural change is needed at IBM, which will take time, but he believes recent reorganization attempts may start to turn things around.
HP, meanwhile, saw a large bump in employee confidence after Meg Whitman took over as CEO. Since then, however, the PC maker has seen its outlook flatten among employees polled.
UBS Evidence Lab polled employees at major tech firms and had them evaluate their workplace. The survey found that Apple was far and away the leader among companies surveyed, taking first place in all categories assessed.
As part of the poll, employees were asked about business outlook, culture, values, management, and their corporation's CEO. Analyst Steven Milunovich said he believes these "soft" factors are important, since financial reports indicate what's already been done.
Coming out particularly strong in the UBS ratings was Cook, Apple's CEO, who rated higher among employees than the rest of the company's management team.
To Milunovich, the strong assessment of Apple by its own employees bodes well for the Mac maker's future. The analyst said he was not surprised that Apple took first place among the companies polled, beating out second-place finisher EMC.
Other companies surveyed, in the order they placed, were NetApp, Cognizant, Accenture, HP, and IBM. Only HP and IBM finished below the industry average, according to UBS.
IBM, in particular, came in last in each category, with employee confidence in management especially low. Milunovich said cultural change is needed at IBM, which will take time, but he believes recent reorganization attempts may start to turn things around.
HP, meanwhile, saw a large bump in employee confidence after Meg Whitman took over as CEO. Since then, however, the PC maker has seen its outlook flatten among employees polled.
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If the stock stagnates or turns down for an extended period watch for those employees to turn on all these points rather quickly. Employee compensation, which has a large stock option component, is highly correlated to these metrics and if one falls, so does the other.
"Highly correlated" is highly speculative. As you have absolutely no source or evidence, you're just assuming.
Stock options for employees are optional - and if you had any idea how they worked, you would likely realise why your statement is wrong.
Is it better to be feared or respected?
So companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft weren't included? Not sure how much stock I put into this if Apple's competition was IBM and HP.
Until UBS Evidence Lab makes the survey public, we'll never know.
Apple is at the top of the list? So there's nowhere to go but down? Apple is doomed!
Tim Cook stands in front of the Taebaek Mountains.gif
I applied for a job posted on Apple's website that I am very qualified for. Unless the offer was for executive level salary (and it wouldn't be), I wouldn't move to Cuppertino. But I applied just to be able to say I did.
Where did AI get this information from? I don't see a link in the original post and couldn't find anything on Google.
Where did AI get this information from? I don't see a link in the original post and couldn't find anything on Google.
Like most of financial reports/analysis/surveys, either directly, newswire release and/or street pickup. Either way, the full contents, i.e., protocol/methodology/results/conclusions are restricted to their directors, management, and/or specific clients in part or in whole.
In other words, the service is not free for all.
He has been confident dependable and truly showed his best with Steve Jobs. People are finally appreciating him for his leadership both in and out of the company
Is it better to be feared or respected?
As long as one has the bigger stick, I guess it doesn't matter.
Finally broke down and bought my first ever Apple products and they are almost unusable.
Never, Never had such problems with my Android devices.
I applied for a job posted on Apple's website that I am very qualified for. Unless the offer was for executive level salary (and it wouldn't be), I wouldn't move to Cuppertino. But I applied just to be able to say I did.
What's the point, apart from satisfying your fragile ego?
You wasted your time and the time for Apple's recruiting staff in vetting a useless application.
Plus, you can't even spell the town's name correctly. I hope you didn't put "detail oriented" on your resumé.
Appalling.
Normally I would agree, but in this case, total nonsense....
Questionable Calls: Apple Watch keynote was scattershot, John Browett as SVP of Retail, iOS 8.0.1, iOS 6 Maps, annual cadence of iOS/OS X has arguably made quality dip. Languishing products at the moment are Apple TV, Mac Mini, and iPad Mini. But you know what, Steve oversaw the G4 Cube, iPod Hi-Fi, Ping, AntennaGate, and Apple's early iDisk/MobileMe/iCloud efforts and we hold him up as infallible...
I applied for a job posted on Apple's website that I am very qualified for. Unless the offer was for executive level salary (and it wouldn't be), I wouldn't move to Cuppertino. But I applied just to be able to say I did.
What's the point, apart from satisfying your fragile ego?
You wasted your time and the time for Apple's recruiting staff in vetting a useless application.
Plus, you can't even spell the town's name correctly. I hope you didn't put "detail oriented" on your resumé.
Appalling.
To true.
If you can't get the basics like spelling right, you're a non-starta.