New York's 100 Best Places to Work in 2022

Businesses have spent the past few years attempting to shower employees with perks in an effort to offset the dismal circumstances brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. Just when it seemed employers had (mostly) made it through the war, a new foe emerged: the Great Resignation.

Workers who had hunkered down to weather the storm increasingly discovered their bargaining power, demanding higher pay and more benefits.

Leading organizations have been responding. Every company featured on our list this year offers remote work. Seven out of 10 pay for health and wellness programs. More than half will help foot the bill for further education. A quarter offer unlimited paid time off.

Are those measures enough? The median voluntary turnover rate, or quit rate, across companies on the list is just 13%, so such tactics certainly aren’t hurting.

Even at the best firms, retention remains a priority, and there’s stiff competition for the top talent that such companies attract. It turns out, the best firms are the ones that simply let employees do their jobs well, Crain’s senior reporter Aaron Elstein found.

Crain’s once again teamed up with the Best Companies Group, an independent research firm, to find the top 100 employers in New York City that have held onto their workforce during the pandemic. The rankings are divided into small (1–50 city employees), midsize (51–100) and large (more than 100) companies. They are based on extensive employee surveys and audits of benefits, human resources, policies and perks.