Great Place to Work Institute's Global Ranking Lists Autodesk at
No. 10
SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2012--
Autodesk,
Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has been named as one of the World’s Best
Multinational Workplaces by the Great Place to Work®
Institute. Autodesk, a leader in professional and personal 3D
design, engineering and entertainment software first appeared on the
Great Place to Work list in 1999 and this year is highlighted for its
unique six-week sabbatical program.
Autodesk's San Francisco offices. Autodesk was recently named the number ten company on the 2012 World's Best Multinational Workplaces list. (Photo: Business Wire)
“There are many reasons why Autodesk is a great place to work. At the
top of that list is our culture, which is grounded in the role our
products play in helping our customers to imagine, design and create a
better world,” said Jan Becker, Senior Vice President, Human Resources
and Real Estate at Autodesk.
This award builds on Autodesk’s worldwide momentum as a “Best Place to
Work”, having been recognized by the Great Place to Work Institute in
the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Canada and the United States
in 2012. In addition, Autodesk was named as one of China’s Top Employers
by the CRF Institute in 2012.
“The companies listed on the second-annual World’s Best Multinational
Workplaces List are creating workplaces dedicated to fostering trust,
pride and camaraderie amongst their employees,” said Susan
Lucas-Conwell, Global CEO of Great Place to Work®. “Their
inclusion on this prestigious list demonstrates their commitment to
continually improving the lives of their employees and setting
innovative new standards for workplaces of the future.”
The second annual World’s Best Multinational Workplaces List ranks the
top 25 global companies to work for. Qualifying companies must have
appeared on at least five national Great Place to Work®
lists, have at least 5,000 employees worldwide, and at least 40 percent
of their global workforce must work outside of the company’s home
country.
Since launching the first best workplaces lists in partnership with
FORTUNE magazine in the United States and Exame in Brazil in
1997, Great Place to Work® now recognizes leading workplaces
in some 45 countries. The World’s Best Multinational Workplace list is
based on a pool of data from some 1,800 companies that were listed on
Great Place to Work® country best companies lists. Every
year, Great Place to Work® analyzes data from surveys taken
by more than 2.5 million employees and workplace culture analytics taken
from 5, 671 companies, that represent more than 11 million employees.
About Great Place to Work®:
Great Place to Work® Institute is a global research,
consulting and training firm that helps organizations identify, create
and sustain great workplaces through the development of high-trust
workplace cultures. Great Place to Work® serves businesses,
non-profits and government agencies in 45 countries on all six
continents.
About Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc., is a leader in professional and personal 3D
design, engineering and entertainment software. Customers across the
manufacturing, architecture, building, construction, digital art and
entertainment industries, including the last 17 Academy Award winners
for Best Visual Effects, use Autodesk software, mobile apps, cloud
services and communities to design, visualize, simulate and communicate
their ideas. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982,
Autodesk continues to develop a broad portfolio of state-of-the-art
software for global markets. For additional information about Autodesk,
visit www.autodesk.com.
Autodesk is a registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its
subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries.
Academy Award is a registered trademark of the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences. All other brand names, product names or trademarks
belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter
product and services offerings, and specifications and pricing at any
time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or
graphical errors that may appear in this document.
© 2012 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Autodesk, Inc.
Michael Oldenburg, 415-547-2439
michael.oldenburg@autodesk.com