Edhat Staff
Appfolio employees (photo: glassdoor)
By edhat staff
Four local companies earned top ratings in a recent poll based on employee’s reviews of the Best Places to Work in 2020.
Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest job and recruiting sites, has announced the winners of its 12th annual Employees’ Choice Awards, honoring the Best Places to Work in 2020 across the U.S. and eight other countries. The Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards are based on the input of employees who voluntarily provide anonymous feedback by completing a company review about their job, work environment, and employer over the past year.
The awards feature ten distinct categories, showing 100 Best Places to Work (honoring employers with 1,000 or more employees) and 50 Best Small & Medium Companies to Work For (honoring employers with fewer than 1,000 employees) in the U.S. Winners are ranked based on their overall rating achieved during the past year.
Santa Barbara County-based companies made an impressive showing with four organizations listed. They are:
Large Companies
#12 LinkedIn:
While LinkedIn is officially headquartered in Sunnyvale, they famously purchased Lynda.com and set up a massive camp in Carpinteria.
#45 AppFolio
Headquartered in Santa Barbara, the computer software company has locations eight official locations within California, Texas, and Massachusetts.
#53 Yardi Systems
Established in 1982 in Santa Barbara, the software and hardware company has grown numerous locations throughout the world.
Small – Med Companies
#30 PayJunction
Founded in 2000 by three UCSB graduates without a single dollar of outside investment, PayJunction has gone from bootstrapped to billions in processing. PayJunction now transacts over $5 billion dollars annually for tens of thousands of users. It now has offices in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Houston.
“This year marks the shift to a culture-first decade in the workplace. Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards winners are employers that are prioritizing culture, mission and employees at the heart of everything they do. In turn, their employees have spoken and are recognizing them truly as the Best Places to Work in 2020,” said Christian Sutherland-Wong, Glassdoor president.
Glassdoor also compiled a list of eight HR and recruiting trends they anticipate for 2020 and what’s likely to shape the coming decade:
- AI will get a seat in upper management.
- 2020 will begin a culture-first decade for employers.
- Companies will refresh hiring playbooks ahead of a potential recession.
- Employers will further prioritize diversity and inclusion jobs.
- Recruiters will adapt as 65+ Baby Boomers become the fastest-growing workforce.
- More people will find their next job on a mobile device.
- Brexit will threaten tech hiring in the UK.
- The 2020 election cycle will unleash companies’ political side.
Huh? #5. Recruiters will adapt as 65+ Baby Boomers become the fastest-growing workforce.
The 65+ is the last generation with a strong work ethic, still knows how to read, write, do simple math, has strategic thinking skills and can put complete sentences together. Boomers also have the cash today, so perhaps it takes one to sell to one. On the other hand, maybe this was a typo.
I think they meant to say that 65+ Baby Boomers will become the fastest-growing number of greeters at WalMart.
The world does not need more people fighting for jobs. Those that have the resources to comfortably retire should do so and stay out of the job market. Too many of those “retirees” taking jobs are doing so for ego satisfaction and for wealth that they can never enjoy. This is particularly regrettable when those of the older population who have real retirement programs and good equity in homes and investments take work from younger people with none of this stuff. Come on old people, get over and be gracious.
Some of us baby boomers took a few years out of our careers to raise our millennial children. Now those years have to be made up before retiring cuz there isn’t enough $ in our pension plan or IRA or investments. Are we really arguing about who has the right to work?
“I’m just gonna let the boomers and millennials argue about who has the stronger work ethic.” … and then you go on to do exactly that.
#7 The UK has tens of thousands of trained engineers who can’t find work in their chosen field. With thousands more graduating every year and only hundreds dying or retiring. The UK will survive brexit as a technological powerhouse and perhaps even thrive if technical recruiting practices improve enough.
Only 100’s dying or retiring? Where did you get this numbers?
Talk about a Motley Crew.
FYI: AppFolio and Yardi are both in Goleta, not Santa Barbara.
…. “Senior citizens today are healthier, more engaged, and working
longer than past generations. But few employers today are wellpositioned to make the most of this growing talent pool. Most
talent attraction efforts today are focused on the hiring needs of
tech-savvy Gen Z and millennial workers, rather than experienced
seniors. In 2020 and beyond, we expect to see a dramatic shift
in recruiting focus, with more strategies aimed at attracting the
booming 65+ workforce and using it to companies’ strategic
advantage.”
I’m just gonna let the boomers and millennials argue about who has the stronger work ethic. The 65+ is the last group with a work ethic? Hardly, the X-ers have been putting nose to the grindstone for more than 30 years now, including starting their careers in an economic downturn. When it comes to working long hours, people 40+ are probably mostly well-more experienced than younger folks (on average). That’s not a bad thing however. Everyone needs balance, and more power to the people who look at the system and say that 45-50-60 hour work weeks are for the birds.
Yeah, people arguing such vast generalities is stupid–lots of lazy boomers and lots of kick ass millennial.