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20 companies where employees are most happy

December 16, 2013 11:36 IST
Bob Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, of the Walt Disney Company, stands next to Mickey Mouse in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle.

There are some companies that know how to keep their employees happy, while there are others where staff is usually unhappy.

Let's take a look at companies where workers are most happy.

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20 companies where employees are most happy

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Pedestrians walk past the world headquarters of Pfizer in New York.

Pfizer

Industry: Pharmaceutical

Headquarters: New York, United States

Revenue: $58.98 billion

Employees: 91,500

Happiness score: 4.139

Average salary: $83,000

Rank in happiness: 1

Pfizer, which is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies by revenue in the world, keeps its employees happiest.

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An employee talks with a customer inside a pharmacy in the Glyfada suburb of Athens, Greece.

Kaiser Permanente

Industry: Healthcare

Headquarters: Oakland, California, United States

Revenue: $47.9 billion

Employees: 190,900

Happiness score: 4.122

Average salary: $76,000

Rank in happiness: 2

Kaiser Permanente, which is the largest managed care organisation in the United States, operates in nine states and the District of Columbia.

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Components of an iPad are laid out during a teardown by iFixit's Luke Soules in Glen Ellen, Virginia. Apple's iPad includes chips from Samsung Electronics Broadcom and Texas Instruments.

Texas Instruments

Industry: Semiconductors

Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, United States

Revenue: $12.82 billion

Employees: 35,759

Happiness score: 4.120

Average salary: $81,000

Rank in happiness: 3

Texas Instruments, which is the third-largest manufacturer of semiconductors in the world, is considered one of the most ethical companies in the globe.

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A robotic tape library used for mass storage of digital data at the Konrad-Zuse Centre for applied mathematics and computer science in Berlin, Germany.

EMC Corporation

Industry: Computer storage

Headquarters: Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States

Revenue: $21.713 billion

Employees: 60,000

Happiness score: 4.118

Average salary: $89,000

Rank in happiness: 4

EMC Corporation, which offers data storage, information security and cloud computing, is one of the largest provider of data storage systems in the world.

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People sit next to a Qualcomm stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Qualcomm

Industry: Telecommunications equipment and semiconductors

Headquarters: San Diego, California, United States

Revenue: $24.87 billion

Employees: 26,000

Happiness score: 4.114

Average salary: 87,000

Rank in happiness: 5

Qualcomm, a semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services, operates in 157 locations around the world.

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A KBR sign adorns the Halliburton corporate headquarters near downtown Houston, Texas.

KBR

Industry: Engineering, construction and private military contractor

Headquarters: Houston, Texas, United States

Revenue: $9.1 billion

Employees: 27,000

Happiness score: 4.095

Average salary: $86,000

Rank in happiness: 6

KBR, which is an engineering, construction and private military contracting company, is the largest non-union construction company in the United States.

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A trader passes by a screen displaying the tickers symbols for Bristol-Myers Squibb on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange.

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Headquarters: New York City, United States

Revenue: $20 billion

Employees: 30,000

Happiness score: 4.063

Average salary: $81,000

Rank in happiness: 7

Bristol-Myers Squibb, which is a pharmaceutical company, has operations around the world, including India.

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A man enters the General Electric building at 1250 Avenue of the Americas in New York.

General Electric

Industry: Conglomerate

Headquarters: New York City, United States

Revenue: $147.35 billion

Employees: 305,000

Happiness score: 4.053

Average salary: $75,000

Rank in happiness: 8

General Electric, which is the fourth-largest company in the world, operates through four segments: Energy, Technology Infrastructure, Capital Finance and Consumer and Industrial.

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People walk past a Capital One banking centre in New York's financial district.

Capital One

Industry: Financial services

Headquarters: Virginia, United States

Revenue: $21.39 billion

Employees: 40,000

Happiness score: 4.051

Average salary: $67,000

Rank in happiness: 9

Capital One, which specialises in credit cards, home loans, auto loans, banking and savings products, pioneered mass marketing of credit cards.

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Lobby of Avaya offices and lab in Westminster, Colorado, United States.

Avaya

Industry: Telecommunications

Headquarters: California, United States

Revenue: $5.17 billion

Employees: 17,000

Happiness score: 4.048

Average salary: $87,000

Rank in happiness: 10

Avaya, which supplies contact centres, networking hardware, unified communications and video products, is a major player in networking systems and the unified communication systems.

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A man passes by Germany's Siemens headquarter in Munich.

Siemens

Industry: Conglomerate

Headquarters: Munich, Berlin and Erlangen, Germany

Revenue: 78.29 billion euros

Employees: 405,000

Happiness score: 4.047

Average salary: $70,000

Rank in happiness: 11

Siemens, which is a German multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate, is the world's largest electronics and electrical engineering company.

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An outsourcing centre in Bangalore. Photo is for representation purpose only.

Cognizant

Industry: IT services and IT consulting

Headquarters: New Jersey, United States

Revenue: $7.35 billion

Employees: 162,700

Happiness score: 4.040

Average salary: $70,000

Rank in happiness: 12

Cognizant, which is an information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing company, has been named the third most admired IT services company in the world.

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Intel booth in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Intel

Industry: Semiconductors

Headquarters: California, United States

Revenue: $53.34 billion

Employees: 104,700

Happiness score: 4.039

Average salary: $80,000

Rank in happiness: 13

Intel, which is a semiconductor chip manufacturer, is one of the biggest companies in the world.

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Women use smartphones in front of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy.

Apple

Industry: Computer hardware, computer software, consumer electronics and digital distribution

Headquarters: Cupertino, California, United States

Revenue: $170.91 billion

Employees: 80,000

Happiness score: 4.022

Average salary: $64,000

Rank in happiness: 14

Apple, which designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers, is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue.

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Expanded Disneyland California Adventure Park features Luigi's Flying Tires, air vents that drive guests in vehicles of oversized tyres to float above the ground, bumping other tyres to catch an inflatable ball at the park in Anaheim, California.

Walt Disney Parks & Resorts

Industry: Theme parks

Headquarters: Burbank, California, United States

Revenue: N/A

Employees: N/A

Happiness score: 4.019

Average salary: $60,000

Rank in happiness: 15

Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, which is one of Walt Disney Company's five major business segments, is responsible for conception, building and managing of the company's theme parks and vacation resorts.

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20 companies where employees are most happy

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A pedestrian walks past a stock ticker at a Fidelity Investments office in Boston, Massachusetts.

Fidelity Investments

Industry: Financial services

Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Revenue: N/A

Employees: 41,000

Happiness score: 4.018

Average salary: $78,000

Rank in happiness: 16

Fidelity Investments, which is a financial services corporation, is a major player in financial services industry.

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An evacuee lowers her head after hearing that residents are not going to be allowed to return to their homes yet, during a containment briefing on the Black Forest Fire near Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States.

Allstate

Industry: Financial services

Headquarters: Northfield Township, Illinois, United States

Revenue: $32.65 billion

Employees: 37,000

Happiness score: 4.011

Average salary: $58,000

Rank in happiness: 17

Allstate, which is he second-largest personal lines insurer in the United States, also sponsors major sporting events.

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A woman takes pictures with Nokia's smartphone in New York.

Nokia

Industry: Telecommunications equipment

Headquarters: Espoo, Finland

Revenue: 30.176 billion euros

Employees: 97,800

Happiness score: 4.000

Average salary: $92,000

Rank in happiness: 18

Nokia, which used to be the second-largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world in 2012, has operations around the world.

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Ted DeVore, a senior sales executive with Prudential, walks back to his car after placing for sale sign in Leawood, Kansas, United States.

Prudential

Industry: Financial services

Headquarters: Newark, New Jersey, United States

Revenue: $34.4 billion

Employees: 50,100

Happiness score: 3.999

Average salary: $61,000

Rank in happiness: 19

Prudential, whose subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management and other financial products and services, operates in the US and 30 other countries.

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FedEx Panda Express aircraft carrying giant pandas Tian Tian and Yang Guang lands at Edinburgh airport in Scotland.

FedEx

Industry: Courier

Headquarters: Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Revenue: $42.7 billion

Employees: 300,000

Happiness score: 3.987

Average salary: $59,000

Rank in happiness: 20

FedEx, which is a global courier delivery services company, operates in almost all countries.

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