TD Bank most desirable company to work for in Canada: Report

RBC, Hootsuite, Amazon and KPMG also in top five

TD Bank most desirable company to work for in Canada: Report
TD Bank takes the title of most desirable company to work for in Canada, according to a LinkedIn report looking at Top Companies.​ REUTERS/Chris Helgren

TD Bank takes the title of most desirable company to work for in Canada, according to a LinkedIn report looking at Top Companies.

Also in the top five for Canada are RBC, Hootsuite, Amazon and KPMG Canada.

The results are based on the actions of LinkedIn’s more than 546 million professionals (including more than 14 million in Canada) and they look at four main pillars: interest in the company, engagement with the company’s employees, job demand and employee retention. (For fairness, LinkedIn removes itself and its owner Microsoft from consideration.)

Globally, the top 10 global companies are: Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, Salesforce, Tesla, Apple, Comcast, the Walt Disney Company, Oracle and Netflix.

Here is what the highest ranked LinkedIn Top Companies in Canada are doing to attract and keep talent, according to LinkedIn:

TD Bank Group: Employees feel like they have a voice thanks to a yearly feedback survey in which more than 80 per cent of employees said they felt engaged at work in 2016. One of the things employees rate the highest is flexible working hours.

RBC: Employees are encouraged to live healthy lifestyles and are offered a wellness program that rewards healthy behaviour with credits employees can use toward things such as gym memberships, workout classes and weight-loss programs.

Hootsuite: The company’s “stretch program” encourages employees to spend one day a week trying a new position.

Amazon: Amazon’s inventors have won more than 2,300 patents in the past year, covering everything from Kindle cases to predictive restaurant ordering.

KPMG Canada: The company’s “global opportunities” program has sent Canadian participants to work in overseas offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, China and Switzerland.

LinkedIn Top Companies 2018 for Canada

  1. TD Bank Group
  2. RBC
  3. Hootsuite
  4. Amazon
  5. KPMG Canada
  6. Suncor Energy
  7. WSP
  8. Shopify
  9. CIBC
  10. SNC-Lavalin
  11. Lululemon
  12. National Bank of Canada
  13. Rogers Communications
  14. Acceture
  15. BMO Financial Group
  16. EY
  17. Salesforce
  18. Scotiabank
  19. Canadian Tire
  20. Aecon Group
  21. IBM
  22. Bell
  23. Sun Life
  24. Loblaw Companies
  25. TransCanada

The full lists can be found here.

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