Aldi Named Among America's Best Employers

BATAVIA, IL — Aldi was named among the 10 best employers with headquarters in Illinois, 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, Aldi ranked first in the top 10 employers with headquarters in Illinois. The Batavia-based retail and wholesale company employs about 25,000 people. Founded in 1976, Jason Hart is the current CEO of the company.

The other companies to make the list include Grainger, Hyatt Hotels, Northwestern Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Ulta Beauty, John Deere, University of Illinois Chicago, Zurich North America and Illinois Institute of Technology.

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. “