FT names Europe's definitive best places to work

Today the Financial Times publishes a special report ranking the 50 best workplaces in Europe with Microsoft and Google once again dominating the European and UK leagues. The list has been put together by the Great Place to Work Institute annually since 2003, and is compiled using 15 national best workplaces studies across Europe. The evaluation is based on both employee opinion and a management survey and the report defines a great place to work as ìa place where the employees trust the people they work for, have pride in what they do, and enjoy the people they work with.î

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Europeís Top Ten Workplaces:
1) Microsoft
2) Google
3) Cisco
4) 3M
5) impuls Finanzmanagement
6) WL Gore & Associates
7) SMA Technologie
8) Grundfos
9) Roskilde Bank
10) PwC

UKís Top Ten Workplaces:
1) Google
2) Structure Group
3) Asthma UK
4) Impact
5) Novo Nordisk
6) Beaverbrooks the Jewellers
7) Acedemee
8) Fishburn Hedges
9) Yell
10) Admiral Group

Also featured in the report:

Profiles of the top 10 organisations in the UK

50 best small- and medium-sized workplaces in Europe (50-500 employees)

Special award winners for credibility, disability intelligence, respect, fairness, pride, corporate responsibility, health and wellbeing and learning and leadership for sustainability

Stefan Stern looks at country variations. ìGermany has more companies in the lists than any other countryî

Alison Maitland on how organizations can help staff achieve a better work-life balance. Neil Hedges, chairman of Fishburn Hedges, says that requiring people to be present at work, even when they have little or nothing to do, is a ìdreadful waste of humanityî

Rod Newing on why size matters when it comes to staff development. ìYou have to keep investing in the employee experience or else you will eventually get fall-offî

Huw Richardson on changing attitudes towards salaries and job satisfaction. Some values remain the same: ìA fair dayís pay for a fair dayís workî

Sarah Murray looks at what persuades people to join ñ and stay with ñ their employer. ëGeneration Y is particularly concerned with making sure that its employer of choice is socially responsibleí

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