Revealed: Australia’s 50 best places to work in 2020

Global tech group Cisco topped Australia’s list of the 50 Best Places to Work (1,000+ employees) for 2020, which was ranked by workplace research and consulting firm Great Place to Work.

Cisco – maker of video-conferencing tool Webex – has been scoring great wins in the era of remote working, logging more than 5.5 billion minutes’ worth of meetings over the platform.

But Cisco is also well loved by its own employees: 97% of respondents endorsed the company as a “great place to work”.

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“During the pandemic, Cisco launched a ‘Your Response to COVID-19’ campaign on their platform, and asked their employees to submit their ideas on how they can take action to respond to this crisis with innovation, creativity and generosity to their teams, customers and the most vulnerable in their communities,” workplace analysts wrote.

Employees were able to donate masks, shields, meals and laptops, while sharing their technical know-how with schools and hospitals.

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Because of Cisco’s purpose-driven approach to business, 98% of its workers feel proud of their employer and their contribution to the community.

The annual citation traditionally honours a diverse roster of companies from industries such as health care, finance, legal, management consulting, transport and logistics, and manufacturing. This year, however, tech companies dominated the list.

Here are the 2020 honourees:

1,000+ employees

1. Cisco
2. Salesforce
3. SAP
4. Mars Australia
5. DHL Express

100-999 employees

1. Interactive
2. Abbvie
3. Canva
4. SafetyCulture
5. BPAY Group
6. Insight
7. OMD Australia
8. Nintex
9. Mantel Group
10. Stryker
11. Intuit Australia
12. Kronos
13. Adobe
14. Envato
15. ServiceNow
16. Starlight Children’s Foundation
17. North Construction & Building
18. Nova Group
19. SAS
20. AC3
21. U Bank
22. Coleman Greig Lawyers
23. Finder
24. Infotrack
25. Corin Australia

Under 100 employees

1. SC Johnson & Son
2. Insentra
3. Morgan McKinley
4. Beaumont People
5. LogMeIn Australia
6. EBay Australia
7. Lundbeck Australia
8. Recovery Partners
9. Invest Blue
10. Sentrian
11. Green Building Council of Australia
12. Cobuild
13. Macquarie Cloud Services
14. Smokeball
15. Beam Suntory Australia
16. Bluefin Resources
17. Cordelta
18. BigCommerce
19. Ansarada
20. Fitness Playground