100 Best Places to Work in IT
Source: Computer World
If you work in IT these days, you don't need anyone to tell you that times are tough. You might have watched as colleagues packed their cubicles and headed to the unemployment office. You probably haven't gotten a promotion or a decent raise in a while. And morale in your department has likely shrunk right along with the IT budget.
Although it may look bleak where you are, not all of your IT brethren are singing the blues. Some employers are bucking the negative trends. They're finding ways to give their IT workers the pay, training and technology projects they crave.
At Caraustar Industries Inc., which ranked No. 13 on this year's Best Places to Work in IT list, staffers are reveling in the family-friendly flextime. Instead of going to offshore outsourcers, cool technology projects at No. 17 Ford Motor Co. are staying in the hands of the Dearborn, Mich.-based IT staff.
Computerworld's search to find these top companies began six months ago with a call for nominations. Surveyed companies earned points for great training options, benefits and pay, but this year, it was the employees who got the final word. More than half of a company's score came from a survey of its IT employees and what those employees said is important to them in their jobs.
