BUS508 Assignment 2

BUS508 Assignment 2

Best Places to Work









Best Places to Work

Best Places to Work
During the current low growth economic environment, organization managers have been concerned about keeping expenses down to gain productivity and secure success. Today, companies human resource strategies are focusing on human capital, once employed the effects of the economic climate is less relevant. Instead the focus is to reduce costs in payroll, employee benefits and compensations, whilst keeping a high level of productivity and employee retainage.
In this paper, two organizations based in San Francisco, CA, listed as 2015 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® are evaluated in terms of their human resource structures (Great place to Work, 2015) , I will make suggestions as to how to best integrate HR strategies to each firm.
Twitter and Genentech
Twitter
One of the organizations is Twitter, Inc., the online social network for public self-expression in real time. The company has 2,730 US employees at 14 different locations and with revenue of $664.89 million today. Twitter was founded in 2006 and rapidly gained popularity; its website is listed in 8th position as most visited websites globally as of May 2015 according to Alexa Internet, Inc.
37% of men and women Twitter users are 18 to 29 years old, 25% by 30 to 49 years old, 38% is over 50 year old user. It has very effective tools for marketers to censes predict activities for each generation by surfing the conversations they tweet on any given day.
Under the first amendment, we all have a freedom of speech; however people are subject to some regulation non Twitter which is privately owned website, and your speech is protected under Twitter’s term of service of use.
This fairly new company is said to be one of best place to work in US by their employees, mostly they are satisfied with human resources structures, which provide, free healthy meals, health club, fitness classes, and non-accrual relaxed...

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