Glassdoor.com recently published its list of the Top 25 Companies for Work-Life Balance, as rated by reviewers on its site, people who have worked at the companies themselves.
Cited most often at the highest-rated companies: flexible work hours and generous time off. In other words, the things that let employees be human beings instead of cogs in a corporate wheel.
The winning companies run the gamut as far as industries and job types: manufacturing, airlines, consulting, pharmaceuticals, and services. It goes to show that work-life balance isn't about what type of job you have -- it's about who's running the place and what their values are.
In my book, this is yet another win for the internet. Previously, only journalists and magazines like FastCompany and BusinessWeek created "top places to work" lists. Now you can get the ratings straight from the (work)horse's mouth.
I've discussed Glassdoor.com in the past. I'm glad to see that the site is thriving and getting its name out there.
Glassdoor also publishes a Top 50 Best Places to Work list. Not surprisingly, it includes most of the companies that got named in the Top 25 Companies for Work-Life Balance list.
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