Hasbro made Fortune's 100 best co. to work for

[haakon1]

Congratulations to Hasbro. They made Fortune's 100 Best Companies To Work For list, for the first time. Hopefully, there is joy in WOTCville.


100 Best Companies to Work For 2011: Hasbro - HAS - from FORTUNE

 

[kitsune9]

This is a cool article.

 

[Nagol]

I've always felt those types of lists are contra-indicators. Companies self-nominate when they feel the need to get good press about work environment or a need to improve employee engagement.

 

[Incenjucar]

I've always felt those types of lists are contra-indicators. Companies self-nominate when they feel the need to get good press about work environment or a need to improve employee engagement.

Eh. I've worked at Microsoft and Amazon, and momentarily been inside WotC's offices. They're all really nice places and people there seem quite happy to be there. Now if Wal*Mart was on that list you'd have an argument.

 

[Nagol]

Eh. I've worked at Microsoft and Amazon, and momentarily been inside WotC's offices. They're all really nice places and people there seem quite happy to be there. Now if Wal*Mart was on that list you'd have an argument.

LOL, even if you self-nominate, you have to be in the top X of nominees so there is some quality control on the winners.

It's just that I've watched companies ignore the magazine awards and not bother with nomination (since there is some work involved) UNTIL they feel the need to have a positive item to point towards usually to offset another public negative OR a need to counter a competitor's positive image.

 

[haakon1]

Getting listed is free publicity for the company's staffing department and helps with morale, so if a company thinks they have a reasonably decent chance to make the list, and they're big enough to have data like this to hand, they submit to this. Only part of it is the HR/financial data submission -- Fortune also does random polling of employees, and in this case, Fortune actually sent a reporter to visit Hasbro and spend a day working at their factory, because they thought it was interesting. (I'm a HR consultant and I've worked on pulling data together for a submission before.)

The only downside to submitting but not making the top 100 is not getting listed. It's not like there's a list of shame or something.

I see ignoring some of the minor magazines that do similar awards, but ignoring Fortune would be silly if you have the resources and think you have a reasonable shot at making the list. I think several hundred companies try.

 

[Croesus]

I went to work for a company that had just gotten on the list (this was about 15 years ago). While many of the folks in the company matched the write up in Fortune, far too much of the company didn't. Their HR department figured out how to spin things so they scored high in certain measures and, on their second or third try, got selected.

I lasted 3 months before I quit. The final straw? When my supervisor forbade me from doing extra for customers because "if you do it once, then they'll expect it, and they'll complain when we don't do it". A year or two later an especially absurd email from the CEO was leaked to the press in which he was chewing out his employees for not being at work 12 hours a day. Not surprisingly, the company didn't make the list the next year.

If you're going to pay attention to the list, look for companies that are on it year after year, not the ones who rotate on and off.

 

[Azgulor]

But, but... how can this be?!?!??! These are the evil corporate suits that force the awesome gamers at WotC to toe the corporate line.

Guess I should pop some popcorn and wait for all the Hasbro-conspiracists to start decrying these results....

Popcorn with a side of irony. Mmmmm, mmmm, good.

Congrats to Hasbro (& WotC by nature of being part of it).

 

[haakon1]

If you're going to pay attention to the list, look for companies that are on it year after year, not the ones who rotate on and off.

I agree with that. Of course, plenty of good companies aren't on the list, if they are too small to bother with it. For example, Paizo might be a fine place to work too, but I don't think they'd have the resources to complete the questionnaire, relative to how much hiring they need to do.

 

[haakon1]

But, but... how can this be?!?!??! These are the evil corporate suits that force the awesome gamers at WotC to toe the corporate line.

Guess I should pop some popcorn and wait for all the Hasbro-conspiracists to start decrying these results....

That's too easy. WOTC is but a small part of the megalodon that is Hasbro, so their plaintive cries were drown out by the happy roars of the masses who assemble Mr. Potatoheads. Designing D&D can't be nearly as exciting as that!

But seriously, congrats to Hasbro, and I presume to WOTC.