The company’s numbers from Q1 2017, show 41 million unique users and 5,800 paying employer clients/partners. According to its website, Glassdoor’s mission is: To help people everywhere find jobs and companies they love, through the power of transparency. To the extent one believes this premise to be true, what’s rated and posted on Glassdoor should matter greatly to leaders. Key Point: If it can be rated, it will be rated. For most of the last six years, ATB Financial’s Glassdoor rating was 4.4, and CEO Dave Mowat had an amazing 99 percent approval. Salesforce’s current Glassdoor score is 4.3 and Marc Benioff, the CEO, has a 97 percent approval rating. They lost top talent to companies that had a higher Glassdoor score, and successfully recruited top talent from companies that had a score worse score than theirs. At the GPTW conference in Toronto last week, a Salesforce executive, during her compelling presentation, pointed out that their research on employee retention was quite straightforward. They are also recognized as the most innovative organization in the world, which is impressive when competing against Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.

The widely respected Great Place to Work organization has selected Salesforce as THE best place to work in both Canada and the U.S. It’s not intentionally in the award winning business, but it is cleaning up on “trophies” in a variety of prestigious and significant categories.

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