Revealing the 20 Best Places to Work
Media release
21 January 2003
Revealing the 20 Best Places to Work
10,000 employees rate their bosses and workmates
- An entire workforce is flown to Australia for a long weekend.
- A staff competition has a new car as the top prize.
- Fellow staff get to say who the company will hire next.
- A company that organises its staff into families, villages and tribes.
These are just a snapshot of how New Zealand's best employers are treating their workers. The stories are revealed in
the new Unlimited Best Places to Work, New Zealand largest employee survey.
Over 10,000 employees from 120 companies rated their own workplaces to find New Zealand's 20 best places to work.
For the first time, the survey, now in its third year, also identifies the top five large, mid-sized and small
workplaces.
The winners are:
Best large organisation
Flight Centre
Best mid-sized
Microsoft New Zealand
Best small organisation
Henry Schein
Best overall organisation
Henry Schien
The survey is a joint venture between Unlimited magazine, New Zealand's leading business magazine, and John Robertson & Associates, specialists in human resources and employee surveys. The survey is the largest of its kind in New Zealand
and has become a key award in the business calendar.
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The complete list of winners follows.
The top 20 workplaces Ranking Company 1 Henry Schein Regional/Regional Health 2 BT Funds Management (NZ) 3 Express Data
NZ 4 Microsoft New Zealand 5 Information Tools 6 Intergen 7 Waikato District Council 8 Flight Centre (NZ) 9 Eli Lilly
and Company (NZ) 10 The Marketplace Company (M-co) 11 Vector (results recorded prior to acquisition of United Networks)
12= New Zealand Pharmaceuticals 12= Sellagence 14 James & Wells 15 GlaxoSmithKline 16 AMI Insurance 17 Central Hawkes Bay District Council 18 Natural History of New Zealand 19
WEL Energy Group 20 Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Small (less than 100 staff)
Henry Schein Regional/Regional Health
BT Funds Management (NZ)
Express Data NZ
Information Tools
Intergen
Medium (100 to 399 staff)
Microsoft New Zealand
Waikato District Council
Vector
GlaxoSmithKline
Natural History of New Zealand
Large (more than 400 staff)
Flight Centre (NZ)
AMI Insurance
Lion Breweries New Zealand
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
KPMG
ENDS