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World's top 20 multinational workplaces

December 30, 2013 11:25 IST

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While there are many multinationals operating both in advanced and developing economies, not all are truly world-class.

Let's take a look at some of the best multinational companies.

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Image: A view of the game room at the New York City offices of Google.
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Google

Employees: 40,178

Industry: Information technology/Internet service provider

Headquarters: Mountain View, California, United States

Listed in: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, India, Japan, Mexico, United States

Employee growth: 17 per cent

Global revenues: $50.2 billion

Overall rank: 1

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United States Mountain View Japan California Mexico

Image: A woman uses her mobile phone to download books in a free mobile library in central Kiev, Ukraine.
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SAS Institute

Employees: 13,732

Industry: Information technology/software

Headquarters: Cary, North Carolina, United States

Listed in: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, United States

Employee growth: 4 per cent

Global revenues: $2.9 billion

Overall rank: 2

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SAS Institute United States North Carolina Cary France

Danelle Hutton works on her laptop computer in her open cubicle at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory Research Support Facility in Golden, Colorado.

Image: Danelle Hutton works on her laptop computer in her open cubicle at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory Research Support Facility in Golden, Colorado.
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NetApp

Employees: 12,604

Industry: Information technology/storage/data management

Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Listed in: Australia, Canada, Switzerland, France, Germany, Greater China, India, Japan, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Employee growth: 26 per cent

Global revenues: $6.3 billion

Overall rank: 3

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United States Sunnyvale NetApp United Kingdom Greater China

Image: Six-year-old Lara plays with a computer inside a 'Barbie Dreamhouse' of Mattel's Barbie dolls in Berlin, Germany.
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Microsoft

Employees: 100,517

Industry: Information technology/software

Headquarters: Redmond, Washington, United States

Listed in: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Employee growth: 4 per cent

Global revenues: $77.8 billion

Overall rank: 4

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United States United Arab Emirates Redmond United Kingdom Microsoft

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WL Gore & Associates

Employees: 10,197

Industry: Manufacturing & production/chemicals

Headquarters: Newark, Delaware, United States

Listed in: France, Germany, Italy, South Korea, United States

Employee growth: 2 per cent

Global revenues: $3.2 billion

Overall rank: 5

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Image: A customer stands in front the Beauty department at Carrefour's Bercy hypermarket in Charenton, a Paris suburb.
Photographs: Jacky Naegelen/Reuters

Kimberly-Clark

Employees: 58,000

Industry: Manufacturing & production/personal and household goods

Headquarters: Irving, Texas, United States

Listed in: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, South Korea, Peru, Venezuela

Employee growth: 2 per cent

Global revenues: $21.1 billion

Overall rank: 6

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Image: Sales Manager Jacqueline Yaffe in the dining room of a model suite in a hotel in Toronto. Photo is for representation purpose only.
Photographs: Mike Cassese/Reuters

Marriott

Employees: 328,790

Industry: Hospitality/hotel/resort

Headquarters: Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Listed in: Brazil, India, Japan, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, United States

Employee growth: 5 per cent

Global revenues: $11.8 billion

Overall rank: 7

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United States United Arab Emirates Marriott Bethesda Japan

Image: A woman serves beer from a tub of ice inside a bar along Sixth Street in Austin, Texas.
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Diageo

Employees: 28,000

Industry: Manufacturing & production/food products/beverages

Headquarters: London, United Kingdom

Listed in: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela

Employee growth: N/A

Global revenues: $18 billion

Overall rank: 8

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Pedestrians standing in front of an electronic board displaying various stock prices outside a brokerage are reflected in a polished stone surface in Tokyo.

Image: Pedestrians standing in front of an electronic board displaying various stock prices outside a brokerage are reflected in a polished stone surface in Tokyo.
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National Instruments

Employees: 7,132

Industry: Manufacturing & production/electronics

Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States

Listed in: Central America, France, Germany, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States

Employee growth: 7 per cent

Global revenues: $1.1 billion

Overall rank: 9

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Image: A Cisco logo at its customer briefing centre in Beijing.
Photographs: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Cisco

Employees: 72,360

Industry: Information technology

Headquarters: San Jose, California, United States

Listed in: Brazil, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Spain, United States

Employee growth: 11 per cent

Global revenues: $46.6 billion

Overall rank: 10

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United States San Jose Cisco California Mexico

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Autodesk

Employees: 7,307

Industry: Information technology/software

Headquarters: San Rafael, California, United States

Listed in: Australia, Canada, Switzerland, China, United Kingdom, United States

Employee growth: 1 per cent

Global revenues: $2.3 billion

Overall rank: 11

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United States San Rafael United Kingdom Autodesk California

Sibylle, biotechnology engineering student, poses with Orgeval yellow courgettes, chives, parsley, broad beans and spring onions from the vegetable kitchen garden installed on the roof of La Mutualite building in Paris.

Image: Sibylle, biotechnology engineering student, poses with Orgeval yellow courgettes, chives, parsley, broad beans and spring onions from the vegetable kitchen garden installed on the roof of La Mutualite building in Paris.
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Monsanto

Employees: 22,000

Industry: Biotechnology & pharmaceuticals/biotechnology

Headquarters: Creve Coeur, Missouri, United States

Listed in: Argentina, Brazil, Central America, India, Mexico

Employee growth: 4 per cent

Global revenues: $13.5 billion

Overall rank: 12

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Image: Two women walk past a BBVA bank branch in Madrid, Spain.
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BBVA

Employees: 113,310

Industry: Financial services & insurance/banking/credit services

Headquarters: Bilbao, Spain

Listed in: Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela

Employee growth: 8 per cent

Global revenues: $30 billion

Overall rank: 13

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Image: A woman walk past a credit card advertisement in central Sydney.
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American Express

Employees: 62,501

Industry: Financial services & insurance/banking/credit services

Headquarters: New York City, New York, United States

Listed in: Argentina, France, India, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, United States

Employee growth: 2 per cent

Global revenues: $31.6 billion

Overall rank: 14

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Image: A woman walks past a closed shop, covered with an advertisement for a residential-retail development, in Leicester, central England.
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Hilti

Employees: 20,500

Industry: Retail/specialty

Headquarters: Schaan, Lichtenstein

Listed in: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Turkey

Employee growth: Zero per cent

Global revenues: $4.5 billion

Overall rank: 15

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Hilti Schaan Canada Switzerland Lichtenstein

Image: A woman walks past Telefonica's building in central Madrid, Spain.
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Telefonica

Employees: 130,709

Industry: Telecommunciations

Headquarters: Madrid, Spain

Listed in: Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela

Employee growth: Minus 4 per cent

Global revenues: $82.3 billion

Overall rank: 16

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Spain Central America Telefonica Telecommunciations Madrid

Image: An employee looks out from a window at a hotel in Berlin.
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Accor

Employees: 133,886

Industry: Hospitality/hotel/resort

Headquarters: Paris, France

Listed in: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, United Kingdom

Employee growth: Minus 8 per cent

Global revenues: $7.3 billion

Overall rank: 17

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United Kingdom Mexico Brazil France Portugal

Image: A worker of the International Potato Center arranges germinated potato seeds in vitro at a gene bank in Lima, Peru.
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Quintiles

Employees: 28,400

Industry: Biotechnology & pharmaceuticals

Headquarters: Durham, North Carolina, United States

Listed in: Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, the Netherlands, United Kingdom

Employee growth: 6 per cent

Global revenues: $3.7 billion

Overall rank: 18

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Image: A shopper walks down an aisle in a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Chicago.
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SC Johnson

Employees: 12,893

Industry: Manufacturing & production/personal and household goods

Headquarters: Racine, Wisconsin, United States

Listed in: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, United Kingdom, Venezuela

Employee growth: Zero per cent

Global revenues: $9 billion

Overall rank: 19

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Image: Couriers load packages onto vehicles as other packages move down the belt at the Marina Del Rey, California FedEx station.
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FedEx Express

Employees: 160,647

Industry: Transportation/package transport

Headquarters: Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Listed in: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Switzerland, Chile, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Central America, Spain, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United States

Employee growth: 6 per cent

Global revenues: $26.5 billion

Overall rank: 20

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