In the age of AI anxiety, the 100 Best Companies to Work For are betting on their people

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Good morning. For every CEO who talks about being a servant leader, who recycles tropes like “there’s no I in team,” there comes a moment of reckoning when your people will tell you how they really feel. And few surveys offer a better barometer of corporate leadership and employer excellence than our annual 100 Best Companies to Work For. Now in its 29th year, our partner Great Place to Work gathers confidential responses from more than 640,000 employees at companies with 1,000 or more U.S. staff, ranking employers based on workers’ experiences. 

While some tactics are timeless for being an employer of choice, new priorities have emerged among employees facing tectonic technological shifts. We all know that, while money matters, companies can’t buy their way into people’s hearts if leaders boast about layoffs or focus on their own gains at the expense of others. The speed and scale of AI is transforming how people think about work. One unifying theme among top companies this year: a commitment to making employees feel supported, trusted, and trained for an AI-enabled future, as my colleague Orianna Rosa Royle points out.

Topping this year’s list is Synchrony Financial (No.........

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