Ah, February. The month dedicated to love. But, if you think those candy hearts, endearing messages, and warm and fuzzy feelings are only reserved for romantic love, think again.
Here at The Muse, we’re feeling all sorts of heart-eye emojis for these awesome companies that know how to treat their employees right—not just on Valentine’s Day, but all year long.
Does that sound way better than a candlelit dinner and a giant stuffed teddy bear? We think so. Check out the 20 swoon-worthy companies we’ve rounded up right here—they’re all hiring right now.
1. Dun & Bradstreet
Since 1841, Dun & Bradstreet has been helping companies improve business performance with their data and insights, available through the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud and its solutions. With these insights, generated from over 300 million business records, customers can accelerate revenue, reduce costs, manage risk, and transform their businesses.
Employees enjoy tons of perks at Dun & Bradstreet, but a favorite is the ability to work remotely from anywhere in the world. Staff members can exercise the option to telecommute when it suits their schedule. What's not to love about flexibility?
2. Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc., named for the Greek goddess of victory, is the world's leading designer, marketer, and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessories for a wide variety of sports and fitness activities. Nike, Inc. serves consumers worldwide by aligning to four key geographies—North America. Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Greater China, and Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wholly-owned subsidiary brands include Converse, which designs, markets, and distributes casual footwear, apparel, and accessories, and Hurley, which designs, markets, and distributes action sports and youth lifestyle footwear, apparel, and accessories. The company’s world headquarters are in Beaverton, Oregon, USA.
From Nike’s Community Stores to its corporate headquarters, teamwork is at the heart of the company culture. That's one of the reasons why retail store employees are referred to as "athletes." It’s fitting that a brand built around sports and fitness fosters the same sense of healthy competition, continual growth and challenge, and collaboration with teammates to accomplish goals.
4. Vrbo
Vrbo, a world leader in the vacation rental industry, is the place to book beach houses, cabins, and condos with more than two million places to stay in 190 countries. The site makes it easy to find and book the perfect vacation rental for any getaway, often for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. Vrbo is part of the Expedia Group family of brands.
Many of the staff who work at HomeAway share a love of travel and that enthusiasm radiates throughout the entire office—including how employees are recognized and rewarded. Team members look forward to the Vacationer Award, where workers can be nominated by peers to win a vacation for their hard work—which makes for a fantastic bonus.
5. Advanced Group
Advanced Group brings together Advanced Clinical, Advanced Resources, Advanced RPO, and WunderLand Group. This family of brands helps Advanced Group clients and talent grow and achieve their professional goals, offering contingent and permanent staffing solutions, talent acquisition and management, consulting, outsourcing, and professional services. Advanced Group is dedicated to advancing careers and companies. In addition to these four businesses, Advanced Group provides corporate services such as Marketing, Human Resources, Finance & Accounting, IT, and Operations to each brand, supporting the success of their clients and talent.
Advanced Resources is committed to providing quality service by taking a personal approach to understanding the unique career goals, talents, skills, and preferences of candidates and companies. That commitment has paid off as Advanced Resources has received both the Best of Staffing Client Award and Talent Award every year since the program’s inception.
6. Circa Healthcare
Circa Healthcare focuses efforts on the animal healthcare industry, but serves the needs of a range of other players as well—including pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, and biotechnology companies. Circa Healthcare helps clients manage brand strategy and marketing and develops advertising that’s both creative and engaging—whether it’s in print or interactive digital media.
When it comes to a collaborative culture, Circa Healthcare really walks the walk. After realizing its original management structure was creating unnecessary bottlenecks, the company transitioned to a more collaborative structure. Company leadership introduced the Circa Healthcare Leadership Council, a council made up of department managers plus two employees who rotate in and out on a regular basis. Together, the Council meets to make collaborative company decisions.
7. DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean aims to provide the easiest cloud platform to deploy, manage, and scale applications of any size, removing infrastructure friction and providing predictability so developers and their teams can spend more time building software that customers love. With a a community of 3.5 million developers and 12 data centers across the globe, DigitalOcean has offices in NYC and Cambridge, and remote employees around the world.
Driven largely by remote employees, DigitalOcean likes to find ways of bringing its all-inclusive culture to the employees moving the company forward from the comfort of their own homes. Out-of-office employees are always invited on any office outings—and are often the initiators of planned events—and they receive regular deliveries of surprise snack packages or movie tickets to enjoy.
9. Good Apple
Good Apple is a nimble, boutique media agency focused on targeted digital media planning and buying in the independent media marketplace. By establishing deep publisher relationships with clients, the company is able to create innovative and efficient campaigns that integrate analytics, improve results, and draw in the audiences most likely to engage with client brands.
According to team members, since Good Apple Digital is still a boutique media agency, employees have the unique opportunity to show off their individual talents and have them noticed by their managers. As opposed to other offices—where people might wait two or more years to be promoted—the company bases Good Apple’s growth on merit and performance, rather than time.
10. TOMS
TOMS’ One-for-One business model provides shoes and other services to children and people in need around the world, One-for-One, for every product purchased. Since its inception in 2006, the organization has helped restore eyesight, given shoes, provided clean drinking water, supported safe birthing services, and promoted youth bullying prevention and response programs for millions of people, globally.
As a company with giving and philanthropy at its core, it comes as little surprise that every employee (and the organization as a whole!) shares a passion for improving the world we live in. The Tomorrow’s Project, for example, is a platform for full-time TOMS employees that gives them the chance to become change-makers and to advocate for social good. A Tomorrow is an idea intended to make a positive change that primarily benefits another person or entity.
11. Palo Alto Networks
At Palo Alto Networks, employees are winning the battle against cybersecurity threats. The organization drives an innovative vision of prevention different from anywhere else—forcing the industry, and the world, to change the way it thinks about protection. With a culture that embraces authenticity, collaboration, and ground-breaking innovation, the team at Palo Alto Networks is unlike any other in the world as it protects the digital way of life.
Rest assured, you don’t need to have a tech background to land a job at Palo Alto Networks. The company values diversity in experiences and skill sets to drive the shared goal of innovative cybersecurity defense. The open management style at Palo Alto Networks encourages a transparent and healthy working environment, and that sense of company camaraderie is further bolstered by fun staff events and celebrations—in addition to perks like flexible work options.
13. Dealnews
DealNews aims to offer consumers the best, lowest-priced deals on the internet—guaranteed. The company works with the world’s most reputable brands to promote electronics, clothing, restaurants, travel, and more via virtual tools that ultimately grow a client’s customer base while also bringing big deals on quality products to online shoppers.
At DealNews, employees aren’t just passionate about the company’s collective goals, but also about finding different ways to give back to the communities they work in. Teams often organize volunteer events, and most recently spent the day gardening at a retirement home. Everyone found it an enjoyable way to give back while spending time together in a different environment.
14. Knot Standard
Knot Standard is a premium custom menswear company. Clients meet with a personal style advisor to discuss their style, get measured, and create their own one-of-a-kind clothing. Knot Standard offers clothing for every occasion—from suits, shirts, and pants to black tie, overcoats, and knitwear. Made for the uncommon man who desires superior quality and exceptional fit, clients can visit one of Knot Standard’s ten national showrooms, or begin their custom process online.
Employees at Knot Standard love that the company has managed to maintain its startup mentality, despite its explosive growth. One aspect of that? The fun, tight-knit culture. Up-beat music is always playing, sports rivalries temporarily trump particular projects, and every Friday finds co-workers Soul Cycling as a team. When interviewing new applicants, managers search for folks who not only meet specific job requirements—but also click with the company culture.
16. VSCO
VSCO builds creative tools, spaces, and connections driven by self-expression. Helping people around the world unlock their creative potential, the company continues to innovate with VSCO Membership, an annual subscription that offers advanced editing features, inspiring editorial content, and immersive community experiences. Across all products and services, VSCO’s mission is to help everybody fall in love with their own creativity.
Part of what makes VSCO what it is? How its employees are constantly uplifted to be as holistic in themselves as possible. From company wine tasting and movie nights to floral arrangement classes and volunteer events, staff can share their interests with one another, both in and out of the office.
18. PulsePoint
PulsePoint is the leading global authority in programmatic technology, content marketing, and health activation. With the most intelligent health-centered view of the customer, PulsePoint has pioneered radical health personalization™, accelerating the discovery and activation of patients and providers for real world outcomes.
PulsePoint’s core competencies include proprietary data capabilities, natural language processing, and reach across digital devices. On the strength of these capabilities, PulsePoint manages a successful programmatic exchange and content marketing distribution platform for all industry verticals.
PulsePoint takes pride in growing its team members. The company works with employees on individualized Career Development Plans to understand their next role, identify tools and training to get them there, check in periodically to ensure that they're on track—and most importantly, that they’re happy. Want to move into a different area and learn something new? Fine with PulsePoint. The company’s goal is to motivate everyone to be the best at what interests them the most.
19. HCSC
Health Care Service Corporation is the largest member-owned—and fourth largest overall—health insurer in the U.S., serving Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas as a licensee of Blue Cross Blue Shield. A purpose-driven community of 22,000 employees serving over 15 million members, HCSC is devoted to a mission of improving lives, health, and care.
Community, inclusivity, and openness are cornerstones of HCSC’s culture. Management encourages employees of all levels to innovate, learn, and contribute ideas. Even better, community service and charity walks are regular occurrences. And diversity groups, spanning vast identities, boast high membership and a variety of fun events.
21. Synaptics
As the name suggests, Synaptics, a portmanteau of synapse and electronics, was originally founded by scientists interested in utilizing neural networks in technological devices. Pivoting into human-interface devices with the development of the first touch-pad in 1992, Synaptics now encompasses over 1,600 patents, 1,700 employees, and a $1.7 billion market-value.
There’s something for everyone at Synaptics. Sporty types hit the gym midday or head outside for team games, while the more outdoorsy enjoy hiking clubs, biking to work, and various friendly competitions. There’s great food, cutting-edge gear, gadgets, and toys abound, but most alluring to many is the availability of sponsorships for continued education and development.
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