100 Best Companies to Work For 2007

Sabbaticals 22 companies on this year's list offer fully paid sabbaticals.

Company	Best companies rank
Adobe Systems	31
Alston & Bird	19
American Century Investments	15
American Express	74
Bain & Co.	45
Bingham McCutchen 1	94
Boston Consulting Group	8
CDW	82
Container Store	4
Edward Jones	29
Genentech	2
Goldman Sachs 2	36
Men's Wearhouse	90
Nike	69
Perkins Coie	64
Plante & Moran 3	32
PricewaterhouseCoopers 4	58
Quad/Graphics	75
QuikTrip	20
Recreational Equipment (REI)	27
Russell Investment Group	30
Timberland 5	78

¹ Partners Only
² Goldman Sachs offers the Public Service Program which allows a select number of Vice Presidents and Managing Directors to take a paid leave of absence to work with a public service or charitable organization for six months to one year.
³ Partners are eligible for the sabbatical program.
⁴ Staff are eligible for up to 40% of their normal salary for sabbaticals.
⁵ To provide employees with options, sabbaticals program was expanded to include a disaster-response mini-sabbatical and a skills-based mini-sabbatical that last for 3 weeks.

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How we pick the 100 best

To choose the 100 Best Companies to Work For, we partner with Great Place to Work® Institute to conduct the most extensive employee survey in corporate America. More than 105,000 employees from 446 companies responded to a 57-question survey. (more)