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The Best Big Companies To Work For

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Matthew Heimer
Matthew Heimer
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Matthew Heimer
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Matthew Heimer
Matthew Heimer
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February 14, 2019, 7:00 AM ET

For a corporate leader trying to build a satisfied, innovative workforce, size can be a frenemy. Yes, a big company may boast the name recognition, market clout, and stability to attract top talent. But the challenges of recruiting and developing managers, communicating across the organization, and making employees feel valued all grow as the staff ranks swell. The upshot: Companies with 100,000 employees or more are only half as likely as smaller peers to be voted a Great Place to Work for All.

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With that in mind, we’re saluting companies that cleared both the Great Places certification bar and the 100,000-employee mark (listed here with their number of U.S. employees).

1. Publix Super Markets—200,000 employees

2. Marriott International—133,238 employees

3. Comcast NBCUniversal—184,000 employees

4. Bank of America—169,708 employees

5. FedEx—296,474 employees

6. AT&T—209,620 employees

7. Kaiser Permanente—202,768 employees

This article originally appeared in the March 2019 issue of Fortune.

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Matthew Heimer
By Matthew HeimerExecutive Editor, Features
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Matt Heimer oversees Fortune's longform storytelling in digital and print and is the editorial coordinator of Fortune magazine. He is also a co-chair of the Fortune Global Forum and the lead editor of Fortune's annual Change the World list.

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