Some of the best places to work right here in metro Atlanta
With signs both nationally and locally pointing to more hiring, if you’re lucky enough you might end up at one of the best companies to work for in Georgia, as ranked by Fortune magazine.
The best places to work include grocery giant Publix Super Markets, insurer Aflac, technology company Cisco, gas station chain QuikTrip and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Rounding out the list are the law firm Alston & Bird, Intercontinental Hotels Group, PCL Construction, Ultimate Software and auto dealership CarMax.
What makes them so great? Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta gets kudos for how management tries to stay connected to workers, with senior leaders, for example, holding frequent parties with employees. At Publix Super Markets, the largest employee-owned company in the country, workers get generous annual stock infusions, and Intercontinental Hotels Group, the parent of Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and other properties, has the most generous 401(k) plan in its industry.
Of the list, Alston& Bird (ranked No. 24 on Fortune’s overall list), Children’s Healthcare (No. 49) and Intercontinental (No. 100) are based in Atlanta, and Aflac (No. 77) is based in Columbus. Children’s Healthcare had the biggest jump up the list, from No. 60 last year.
In the latest signal that companies are doing more hiring, the government reported Thursday that the number of people seeking unemployment benefits plummeted last week to 352,000, the fewest since April 2008. The decline added to evidence that the job market is strengthening, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.
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Wendi
January 21st, 2012
1:11 pm
PROMOVE the Apartment Source!
pb
January 21st, 2012
1:14 pm
To the Mark Richt hater on here a few posts back:
He does not get a pay raise every time another coach gets one. (That statement does not even make sense.) If you don’t like him as head coach, who do you think you are going to get that can do better? Some people expect a national championship at UGA all the time, and that just is not likely to happen. But the comments are funny…
sparta_bubba
January 21st, 2012
1:20 pm
UPS may be good for management and full timers, but they screw part timers royally. No real benefits and they make you work enough hours to keep you “part time” so they can keep the rod in.
Redneck Bill from Trailerville
January 21st, 2012
1:23 pm
Definitely Home Depot, especially when you find the good hidey places. See a customer, run and hide. Just don’t sleep past closing time. They’ll lock your butt in.
jason baker
January 21st, 2012
1:29 pm
Summit racing is great place to work and Smith and Davis Clothing too
Andrea
January 21st, 2012
1:44 pm
I would love to work for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, anybody would like to be a reference??????????
Sandra
January 21st, 2012
1:46 pm
I have a friend who works for Children’s. She hates it, complains about it all the time. She cannot understand how CHOA can be on the list.
Daniel
January 22nd, 2012
6:10 am
Why didn’t you mention Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI)? We have four stores and we’ve been on the best places to work list for 15 years straight. Our 8th place finish this year is better than most (all?) of the companies you listed.
FormerDeltaCultist
January 22nd, 2012
9:24 am
Amazing how much Delta has fallen from grace. At once considered a “family” that took care of its own, bungling from Ron Allen and Leo Mullin then the cut-throat downsizing led by two-faced “I was not brought here for a merger” Richard Anderson has rendered that once “In Search of Excellence” icon to sweat shop status.
Road Scholar
January 22nd, 2012
9:42 am
Since Home Depot has bought a web company, maybe now they will provide its customers with an adequate…no…good web page for researching and buying things on line!?!
IT Guy
January 25th, 2012
11:57 am
CHOA is terrible if you are not clinical. TOTALLY incompetent management in the IS&T department. THE worst place to work in Atlanta if you are in IT. I’m looking for a new job right now.