These 5 GA Companies Are Among America’s Best Employers

GEORGIA — Delta Air Lines, IHG Hotels and Resorts and United Parcel Service are the best employers with headquarters in Georgia, according to a new ranking from Forbes.

The Forbes report, America’s Best Employers By State, is based on a survey of more than 160,000 employees of companies with at least 500 people working in U.S. operations.

The survey, conducted by the market research firm Statista, asked participants how likely they were on a scale of zero to 10 to recommend their employer as a good place to work. Respondents were also asked to evaluate employers they’d worked for within the past two years, and organizations they knew within their industry or through friends or family who worked there.

By those measures, the top five employers with headquarters in Georgia are:

1. Delta Air Lines, a transportation and logistics company based in Atlanta with 100,000 employees; Edward Herman Bastian is the CEO of the company, founded in 1924.
2. IHG Hotels and Resorts, a travel and leisure company based in Dunwoody with 345,000 employees; Keith Barr is the CEO of the company, founded in 2003.
3. United Parcel Service, a transportation and logistics company based in Atlanta with 414,000 employees; Carol B. Tome is the CEO of the company, founded in 1907.
4. Chick-fil-A, a restaurants company based in Atlanta with 140,000 employees; Andrew Truett Cathy is the CEO of the company, founded in 1946.
5. Coca-Cola, a food, soft beverages and alcohol and tobacco company based in Atlanta with 9,000 employees; James Quincey is the CEO of the company, founded in 1986.

Workers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia answered the most recent survey. Those findings were supplemented with data from the previous three surveys. In all, 1,294 organizations made the final cut.

Those in the final list are performing well with workers for their employee retention efforts, according to Forbes.

“When employees are in their roles for longer, leaders need to consider how they can ensure that they are providing challenges and development opportunities for that member of the staff to keep them engaged, satisfied, and productive,” Becky Wallace, head of people at LearnUpon, a corporate learning platform, told Forbes.

The report found that fewer than 50 percent of workers think their employer invests in the skills they need to advance.