Leading the ranking of companies with more than 500 employees is Hilton, a multinational hotel company, followed by Salesforce and American Express
The top 60 best companies to work at in Italy average annual revenue growth of 26 percent, up from 23.25 percent in 2021
Meritocracy, work-life balance and effective, open and empathetic leadership capable of sharing meaningful values. These are just some factors analyzed by more than 163,000 employees from more than 300 organizations who applied to participate in the 22nd edition of Great Place to Work Italy’s Best Places to Work survey. Sixty companies were awarded, including seven in the financial services and insurance sectors.
The ranking of the best places to work in Italy
The ranking is divided into four categories based on the number of employees: companies with more than 500 employees, between 150 and 499 employees, between 50 and 149, and between 10 and 49. Leading the ranking of companies with more than 500 employees is Hilton, a multinational hotel company, followed by Salesforce, a leader in cloud computing, and American Express, the only company in the financial services industry to earn a podium place in all four categories analyzed. Bending Spoons is notable among companies with between 150 and 499 employees, which takes the scepter after eight years from Cisco Systems (now in second Place) and newcomer Unox, active in the manufacturing sector. The podium for the category with between 50 and 149 employees sees Biogen Italia (biotechnology and pharmaceuticals) in first Place, accompanied by Reverse (professional services) and Skylabs (information technology). Finally, among companies with between 10 and 49 employees, Accuracy (offering professional services), Systematika Distribution (information technology), and Cleafy (IT companies) emerge
Finance and insurance: the top companies to work in
We Wealth then extrapolated the top seven companies in which to work in the financial services and insurance sector, awarded in the four size categories of Great Place to Work Italy:
with more than 500 employees, the aforementioned American Express (in 3rd Place), ConTe.it (an Italian brand of the Admiral Group specializing in insurance and financial services, in 10th Place), and illimity (a banking group founded and led by Corrado Passera, listed since March 5, 2019, on the Italian Stock Exchange, which gets 15th Place) get a spot in the rankings;
with 150-499 employees are Assimoco Group (insurance group of the Italian Cooperative Movement, with premium income of more than 600 million euros, ranked 10th) and Prestiter (specializing in loans for employees and retirees, ranked 12th);
with 50-149 employees peeps in 11th Place Wide Group (an insurance brokerage company in Italy);
10-49 employees get, in turn, 11th Place in Volvo Financial Services (Volvo Group’s finance company with a structure of about 50 professionals in financial services such as financing, insurance, and rental, among others).
Average annual revenue growth of 26 percent.
“The best companies in the Belpaese increase their workforce by an average of 15 percent compared to last year, have 95 percent confidence in their leadership, and manage to achieve important results on difficult issues such as meritocracy (+23 percent compared to the panel of 303 companies analyzed) and fairness (+19 percent),” says Beniamino Bedusa, president of Great Place to Work Italy. Not to mention that they record an average annual revenue growth of 26 percent, up from 23.25 percent in 2021. With a considerable distance compared to the overall landscape of Italian organizations, as recalled by Alessandro Zollo, CEO of Great Place to work Italia.
“A study by John Hopkins University on a sample of 2 thousand Italian workers who were given the Trust Index© questionnaire (on company climate and work experience, ed.) reveals worrying distances: 50 percentage points on the recognition of benefits (83% for the best vs. 33% for the Italian average), 44 points concerning work-life balance (86% vs. 44%) and 38 percentage points concerning meritocracy (79% vs. 41%), just to name a few,” Zollo explains. The average trust of the top 60 Italian companies is 3 points higher than the European average (89 percent vs. 86 percent). In contrast, the same average in the representative sample of Italian companies is six percentage points below the European average (52 percent vs. 58 percent). “This is where, in my opinion, the real productivity gap needs to be closed vis-à-vis Europe,” Zollo notes. “The first step is simply to ask your colleagues how they are doing and whether we can do something to ensure they can perform at their best.”
