Here Are the 2023 LinkedIn Top Companies
It’s been a bumpy ride over the past year for recruiters, employees, and candidates alike. The Great Reshuffle segued into Quiet Quitting only to be disrupted by inflation, economic uncertainty, and mass layoffs in the tech world.
Yet throughout all of this, hiring around the globe has remained strong, and employers continue to think about how they can attract, retain, and develop top talent. According to LinkedIn’s recent Workplace Learning Report, workers are also craving opportunities for career growth, learning, and skill building.
That’s why we’re thrilled to share our seventh annual LinkedIn Top Companies, which identifies the best places for professionals to develop their skills and grow in their careers. This year, LinkedIn has selected the top companies in 36 countries (up from 35 in 2022) across six continents.
The lists focus on finding the best businesses for helping employees learn skills and grow. Because it’s such a topsy-turvy time, we took an even deeper dive and looked at factors such as tenure, attrition, and layoffs. Companies that have laid off 10% or more of their workforce over the past 15 months were not eligible for our lists.
The lists show that regardless of industry — banking, consulting, accounting, retail, healthcare, energy, technology, and more — there are organizations making serious investments in their employees’ development, and those are the companies that made our lists. The LinkedIn rankings are based on eight pillars: ability to advance, skills growth, company stability, external opportunities, company affinity, gender diversity, educational background, and employee presence in the country (more on each of these below).
Lots of household names have made this year’s lists (that’s how they become household names) — Amazon appears on the lists in 19 countries, Procter & Gamble on 16, SAP on 14, and Deloitte and EY on 13. The lists showcase other famous brands too, including Apple, Pepsi, Disney, Sony, Volvo, and BMW. But the lists also include companies that are building their names right now — and proving they can provide a great home to career ambitions.
Without further ado, here are the 2023 Top Companies:
To see the full list and report for any individual country, click on its name:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Help your company grow by helping your employees grow
Job seekers are looking beyond open roles to try to find what a career path looks like at your company before making any decisions about joining you.
At the same time, many employers are making do with smaller workforces and see the value in helping their employees keep their skills current and relevant. That’s why many Top Companies are doubling down on professional learning and development. They’re rolling out learning platforms, providing tuition assistance, strengthening mentorship programs, and offering gigs and stretch projects.
For example, HDFC Bank, the No. 12 company in India, recently announced the launch of a program to hire, train, and deploy more than 200 female branch managers across the country. Meanwhile, India’s No. 14, the financial services company Yubi, just started a reskilling program for women tech professionals who are returning to work after a break in their careers.
Amazon, the No. 1 company on the U.S. list, offers a Career Choice program, which provides training, education, and coaching to help hourly workers build new skills and move into higher-paying roles; so far, more than 130,000 employees in 14 countries have participated. Wells Fargo, No. 2 in the U.S., has joined the OneTen Coalition — which aims to provide career opportunities for 1 million Black Americans without college degrees — and has launched its own DEI talent initiative, providing employees functional training, networking, and learning programs. And Thoughtworks, No. 9, has created Thoughtworks University, a yearlong immersive training program for entry-level employees that has helped 36,000 employees learn technical and consulting skills to jump-start their careers.
How the 2023 Top Companies were determined
To compile the lists, the LinkedIn News team relied on in-depth research and LinkedIn data, examining eight pillars that are key to career progression:
1. Ability to advance: Tracks how employees get promoted both within the company and when they land a new position externally (based on standardized job titles).
2. Skills growth: Looks at how employees are gaining skills while at the company, using standardized LinkedIn skills.
3. Company stability: Tracks attrition over the past year as well as the percentage of employees that stay at the company for at least three years.
4. External opportunity: Looks at outreach on LinkedIn Recruiter across a company’s workforce as signaling demand for workers coming from these companies.
5. Company affinity: Tracks the number of connections among employees (controlling for company size), seeking to measure how supportive a company culture is.
6. Gender diversity: Measures gender parity within a company and its subsidiaries.
7. Educational background: Looks at the variety of educational attainment among employees, from no college degree through PhDs, and captures the commitment to recruiting professionals from a wide range of backgrounds.
8. Employee presence in the country: Examines the company’s number of employees in the country relative to other companies.
For ideas about how your company can become a go-to destination for job seekers, go to the individual country reports and dive into the specifics of how our Top Companies have become models for promoting professional growth.
Finally, congratulations once again to all of this year’s Top Companies!
Methodology
Our methodology uses LinkedIn data to rank companies based on eight pillars that have been shown to lead to career progression: ability to advance; skills growth; company stability; external opportunity; company affinity; gender diversity; educational background; and employee presence in the country.
To be eligible, companies must have had at least 500 employees as of December 31, 2022, in the country and attrition can be no higher than 10% over the methodology time period, based on LinkedIn data. Similarly, companies with layoffs that amount to more than 10% of their workforce, based on public announcements between January 1, 2022, and the list launch, are also ineligible. Only parent companies rank on the list; majority-owned subsidiaries and data about those subsidiaries are incorporated into the parent company score. The methodology time frame is January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022. This analysis represents the world seen through the lens of LinkedIn data, drawn from the anonymized and aggregated profile information of LinkedIn’s members around the world.
All staffing and recruiting firms, educational institutions, and government agencies were excluded. LinkedIn, its parent company Microsoft, and Microsoft subsidiaries were also excluded.
