沒錯，別老想著講Yahoo!的壞話，還是多吹捧一下大公司的美好，搞不好有機會可以進全球最值得你為它賣命的公司（或者起碼不致斷送美好前程的可能），譬如說：Google。
根據FORTUNE雜誌的2007年百大值得工作的公司調查評比專題，Google繼全球最具影響力的品牌之後，又拿下2007年最值得工作的公司頭銜。遠遠凌駕它的對手，包括排在第44位的Yahoo!及第50位的微軟。
這項調查評比專題的前百大公司名單如下：
- Genentech
- Wegmans Food Markets
- Container Store
- Whole Foods Market
- Network Appliance
- S.C. Johnson & Son
- Boston Consulting Grp.
- Methodist Hospital Sys.
- W.L. Gore & Associates
- Cisco Systems
- David Weekley Homes
- Nugget Market
- Qualcomm
- American Century Invest.
- Starbucks Coffee
- Quicken Loans
- Station Casinos
- Alston & Bird
- QuikTrip
- Griffin Hospital
- Valero Energy
- Vision Service Plan
- Nordstrom
- Ernst & Young
- Arnold & Porter
- Recreational Equip. (REI)
- Kimley-Horn & Assoc.
- Edward Jones
- Russell Investment Grp.
- Adobe Systems
- Plante & Moran
- Intuit
- Umpqua Bank
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
- Goldman Sachs
- Northwest Community Hospital
- Robert W. Baird
- J.M. Smucker
- Amgen
- JM Family Enterprises
- PCL Construction
- Genzyme
- Yahoo
- Bain & Co.
- First Horizon National
- American Fidelity Assur.
- SAS Institute
- Nixon Peabody
- Microsoft
- Stew Leonard's
- OhioHealth
- Four Seasons Hotels
- Baptist Health Care
- Dow Corning
- Granite Construction
- Publix Super Markets
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Pella
- MITRE
- SRA International
- Mayo Clinic
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- Perkins Coie
- Alcon Laboratories
- Jones Lang LaSalle
- HomeBanc Mortgage
- Procter & Gamble
- Nike
- Paychex
- AstraZeneca
- Medtronic
- Aflac
- American Express
- Quad/Graphics
- Deloitte & Touche USA
- Principal Financial Grp.
- Timberland
- TDIndustries
- Lehigh Valley Hospital & Health Ntwrk.
- Baptist Health S. Florida
- CDW
- EOG Resources
- Capital One Financial
- Standard Pacific
- National Instruments
- Texas Instruments
- CarMax
- Marriott International
- Men's Wearhouse
- Memorial Health
- Bright Horizons
- Milliken
- Bingham McCutchen
- Vanguard
- IKEA North America
- KPMG
- Synovus
- A.G. Edwards
- Stanley
看來是頗嚴謹的調查專題，樣本數為來自四百四十六家超過十萬五千人的受測者，在填寫過57題的問卷後，綜合分析得出的結果：
More than 105,000 employees from 446 companies responded to a 57-question survey created by Great Place to Work Institute®.
不大像台灣媒體慣用生成數據來背書炒作話題的操作，使得這項調查本身的諸多細節，似乎遠比Google拿下第一名或誰誰誰也入榜來得更有可觀的價值。Fortune雜誌也公開說明他們如何挑選出這一百家公司，我想，就一項嚴謹的調查專題而言，用以衡量的尺度和觀點，應該遠比結果更具啟發性才對。
不過，另一方面我好像也可以預見，當台灣的媒體或部落格獲知這樣的調查評比專題時，他們會怎麼來作眼看生不大不出意義的炒作。
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