Canadas+Best+Employer

The best companies to work for in 2006 come from different places in Canada. They also range in size. Surprisingly enough, the headquarters of the top three are located in Mississauga. You can check out the best employers in Canada [|here]


 * **Large Employers Ranking** || **Organization** || **Headquarters** || **Overall Ranking** ||
 * 1 || [|Cintas Canada Ltd.] || Mississauga ON (2) || 1 ||
 * 2 || [|G & K Services Canada Inc.] || Mississauga ON (2) || 4 ||
 * 3 || [|Edward Jones Canada] || Mississauga ON (4) || 10 ||
 * 4 || [|Johnson & Johnson Family of Canadian Companies] || n/a || 11 ||
 * 5 || [|Delta Hotels] || Toronto ON (5) || 16 ||
 * 6 || [|Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.] (Canada) || Toronto ON (4) || 20 ||
 * 7 || [|Wal-Mart Canada Corp.] || Mississauga ON (4) || 21 ||
 * 8 || [|GlaxoSmithKline Inc.] || Mississauga ON (5) || 24 ||
 * 9 || [|The Co-operators] || Guelph ON (3) || 25 ||
 * 10 || [|Groupe Robert Inc.] || Rougemont QC (2) || 32 ||
 * 11 || [|Enterprise Rent-A-Car] || Markham ON (3) || 35 ||
 * 12 || [|McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Limited] || Toronto ON (4) || 38 ||
 * 13 || [|Coast Capital Savings Credit Union] || Surrey BC || 39 ||
 * 14 || [|Keg Restaurants Ltd.] || Richmond BC (4) || 40 ||
 * 15 || [|Golder Associates Ltd.] || Burnaby BC (5) || 42 ||
 * 16 || [|Scotiabank Group] || Toronto ON (2) || 43 ||
 * 17 || [|National Bank of Canada] || Montréal QC (2) || 49 ||


 * References:


 * "Canada's Best Employer." __Best Employers In Canada__. Feb. Hewitt Associates. 18 Feb. 2006 .


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Well I actually read the article and I feel its a little decieving. All it states are the big employers, it really does give the viewer any hints or information regarding the work environment or actual position of the firm in relations to all the other firms in canada. If you look at number 7 and 12 ( walmart and mcdonalds), we all know both of those organizations have thousands of employees. Fast food restaurants are being built everywhere and today can be found at the weirdest and un-imaginable places, and the biggest fast food place among all of those is McDonalds. My old house has 5 McDonald restaurnats close to it and it took a person only 5 minutes or less to reach any of those 5 places. So obviously with so many McDonald places out there, its not wonder that they have thousands and thousands of employees and the same thing applies to walmart which has huge store all over Canada. The real question is whether people want to work flipping burgers or as sales assosiates coz that what most of the jobs are. Obviously, if this list were to be re-assessed and then poeple would see a whole different side

I agree with the opinion above, the website can be deceiving in regards to the specifications of the job. We all have job opportunities available to us but the degrees to which those jobs are related to our field of interest are varied. Many of the employers are in the service market which involves jobs such as bank tellers, chefs, sales associates and receptionists. Taking into consideration the education that we receive jobs like this are more temporary than permanent for us. Therefore, the website should list the potential job opportunities along with the list and create a list that offers more long-term job options.

How is this list actually comprised? I have read the article and it mentions nothing about the management and work environments, excluding the question why these places are so great to work in? I mean we have a university maganize such as McLeans that states why a university is at the top due to what it offers and where it stacks up to others in this or that department. I don't find this list very reliable since 74% of services are taken up by information workers with permanent jobs. Some of these places offer a temporary replacement time, just with the hope of branding and advertising products through their employees?

The article isn't about what place is best to work in for individuals, but how each coorporation/business takes effort to make the best possible enviroment for its employees. They are the 'best employers' because they focus on communication and goal-oriented task work for their current employees, not about attracting new recruits. It says on the website that best employers ..."realize the need to capture the hearts and minds of employees to truly drive superior business performance". The businesses are rank accordingly to how well they do this.