March 15, 2016 / Fortune Asia / Volume 173 / Number 4 / The 100 Best Companies to Work For 2016

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THE 100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION AND THE LIST

71 The 2016 List
In our 19th ranking of America’s greatest workplaces, we honor the champions of corporate culture. Here’s how they measure up.
By Robert Levering, with additional reporting by Erin Bartulski, Jonathan Chew, Ed Frauenheim, Claire Groden, Milton Moskowitz, and Tabitha Russell

CHAPTER II: EMPOWERING EMPLOYEES

88 My Five Days of ”Bleeding Green”
A firsthand account of working at Publix, America’s happiest supermarket.
By Christopher Tkaczyk

CHAPTER III: THE NEW WORKFORCE

98 Five Things You Can Do to Attract Millennial Talent
Here, a few ways your company can compete for the best and brightest new stars.
By Claire Groden

100 Hot New Perk: Paying Down Student Loans
Business is trying to help solve the nation’s $1.2 trillion school debt problem, but one thing stands in the way: the law.
By Claire Zillman

CHAPTER IV: HOW TO GET HIRED
102 Tips From Recruiters at the 100 Best Companies
What talent seekers look for in a job candidate.
By Christopher Tkaczyk

104 The Health Care Hiring Boom
Here are this year’s best employers in medicine謡ith secrets from their recruiters.
By Laura Lorenzetti

CHAPTER V: LEADING CHANGE IN THE VALLEY
106 The Garden of Eden
VMware’s verdant California campus is a calm, eco-friendly respite. If only its business outlook were as serene.
By Michal Lev-Ram

109 Tech’s Diversity Fixer
Joelle Emerson, founder of Paradigm, is working to balance the talent distribution in America’s innovation capital.
By Leena Rao

CHAPTER VI: BALANCING WORK AND LIFE
110 At Ikea: No Ranks, No Rancor
The egalitarian ethos runs deep at the Swedish furnishings giant預 place where no one seems to be at the lowest rung on the corporate ladder.
By Beth Kowitt

58 Palantir Connects the Dots
The data analytics company has built a substantial mystique預nd a $20 billion valuation with investors預round its work for the intelligence community. Can it woo more corporate clients without giving away its secrets?
By Michal Lev-Ram

34 Hoaxwagen.
How the massive diesel fraud incinerated Volkswagen’s reputation預nd will hobble the company for years to come.
By Geoffrey Smith and Roger Parloff

50 Fixing Twitter
Breaking news, celebrity feuds, and political revolutions turned Twitter into a media juggernaut. Unfocused management turned it into a train wreck. On the company’s 10th birthday, here’s how returning CEO Jack Dorsey plans to get Twitter back on track.
By Erin Griffith

66 Building an Encryption Empire
Pavel Durov earned fame as ”Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg.” Now his Telegram messaging app has 100 million users and counting, and the reclusive entrepreneur finds himself back in the spotlight預nd at the center of a global debate.
By Vivienne Walt

112 The Zappos Experiment
The online shoe retailer has always focused on its people as much as its customers. But now a radical transition into ”self-management” has left it reeling. Can the company regain its mojo?
By Jennifer Reingold

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MACRO
6 Closer Look
Why people are worried we’re in a recession預nd why it’s too soon to panic.
By Stephen Gandel and Chris Matthews

9 Zen and the Art of Dealmaking
With enthusiastic C-suite support, mindfulness has become a big business of its own.
By Jen Wieczner

10 Movie Magic
Why Hollywood isn’t worried about China’s slowdown.
By Tom Huddleston Jr.

11 Betting on Your Neighbors
Insurance meets the sharing economy.
By Jennifer Alsever

12 The 21st-Century Corporation
Despite the likes of Facebook and Uber, startling new research finds that high-growth young U.S. firms are in decline.
By Geoff Colvin

14 Book Excerpt: Good for the Money
In a scene from this posthumous memoir, the late CEO of AIG recounts his battle for control of the insurance behemoth.
By Bob Benmosche

VENTURE

17 Human Capital
Is software better at managing people than you are?
By Jennifer Alsever

PASSIONS & PERKS
19 Silicon Beach Surfers
These L.A. techies are socializing, networking, and having fun by riding the waves.
By Scott Gummer

21 Supercar
The 2017 Bugatti Chiron: A toy for billionaires, yes. But we can fantasize, right?
By Sue Callaway

23 Craft Beer
Dogfish Head brewery finds success by appealing to adventurous palates.
By John Kell

TECH
25 Object of Interest
Samsung unveils its Gear 360 virtual-reality camera. Here’s what it could do for business.
By Don Reisinger

26 Cybersecurity
Banks are using new biometric technologies to detect scammers.
By Jeff John Roberts

27 The Future Is Now
Artificial intelligence, analyzed謡ith insights from Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
By Andrew Nusca

28 Zeroing In
SoFi aims to be the bank of choice for millennials.
By Leena Rao

29 Chartist
How long it takes to break a passcode.
By Robert Hackett and Nicolas Rapp

30 A Boom With a View
Business realities rain on the parade of on-demand startups.
By Erin Griffith

INVEST
31 The Return of the Big Shorts
The recent market correction has made some bearish investors look like geniuses. Others are learning that even short-sellers need a good long game.
By Michelle Celarier

120 BING!
ON THE COVER: PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JUSTIN METZ

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Our inside man at Publix: No. 67 on this year’s list
PUBLIX: PATRICK JAMES MILLER

Hunting for patterns at Palantir’s Palo Alto headquarters
BRAD WENNER

Directors of boards: a Silicon Beach Surfers crew
SURFERS: BRYCE DUFFY

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