Amazon has knocked Google off the top spot as the best place to work in the world, according to LinkedIn.
Each year, the social network for professionals goes through “billions of actions” taken by LinkedIn’s over 500 million members and crunches data from three areas; jobs applications, engagement (interest in a company’s brands and their employees), and talent retention. It only looks at firms with 500 employees and over and it said it excluded LinkedIn and its parent, Microsoft, from the list.
The data was taken from actions over the year to February 2018.
For its 2018 ranking, LinkedIn found that Amazon, which is the second-largest private employer in the US with 566,000 employees, was in pole position. It’s perhaps unsurprising for those who watch the company closely. CEO Jeff Bezos is lauded for his approach to management, developing a thriving career culture that is intertwined with his approach to customer service and business development and paying big for getting the best talent.