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Large Employer Category (250 or More US Employees)

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C.W. Driver Companies

  • Location: Pasadena, California
  • Industry: Construction
  • Employees: 282

The general contracting and construction management services company C.W. Driver understands that people are its biggest differentiator. It makes a conscious effort, on a daily basis, to invest in people to demonstrate appreciation for their contributions to the company’s success. From company-paid health coverage and family picnics to specialized career development programs and community outreach events, it works to ensure that its people know that they are the reason for over 100 years of success. Driver’s High-Potential Leadership Development Program helps current employees build their future careers. The company also takes special care of military members and their families when they are called to active duty.

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2.

CBIZ MHM, LLC

  • Location: San Diego, California
  • Industry: Financial Services

  • Employees: 5,745

The business consulting, tax, financial services, benefits, and insurance provider CBIZ encourages employees to show up as their authentic selves by embracing change, individuality, and diversity and is committed to creating an environment that welcomes, values, respects, and develops individual differences. The company supports professional development by covering costs associated with taking the CPA exam and created a nationwide program that celebrates and supports the uniqueness of professional women in business. With flexible work schedules and a positive culture, CBIZ supports work-life balance, and offers 24 hours of paid time annually to volunteer in the community.

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3.

Host Healthcare

Host Healthcare is an award-winning healthcare staffing company focusing on travel nursing and travel therapy. Host’s employee-led culture teams celebrate and advocate for different communities within the company, such as a Hispanic Heritage Committee, Pride Committee, and Wellness Team. Employees are encouraged to be culture drivers to help cultivate a fun and engaging place to work. Biweekly Q&A with leadership allows staff to discuss any issue of interest to them. The company also supports employee growth with a leadership mentor program, and unity through its swag store for branded apparel, a source of freebies for game prizes and performance awards.

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4.

Allison+Partners

  • Location: Los Angeles, California
  • Industry: Advertising/PR/Marketing
  • Employees: 348

Allison+Partners is an agency where you can learn, grow, and be recognized. With so many dedicated learning resources and internal and external training and mentorship programs, the agency fosters an environment of consistent growth and advancement opportunities and challenges. The supportive culture shines with a flexible work schedule and reasonable expectations around after-hours communication. Collaborative offices and practice groups meet with regularity, for fun team-building exercises and social media challenges. For many, it’s the last PR agency they will ever work at. And if it ever gets too much, the firm awards paid sabbaticals every five years.

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5.

Impact Networking, LLC

  • Location: Los Angeles, California
  • Industry: Other – Managed Service Provider
  • Employees: 817

Impact Networking is an industry-leading managed service provider that offers innovative digital office solutions, including managed IT, cloud, and cybersecurity services to businesses of all sizes. The leadership team makes all employees feel cared for, seen and heard and generally promotes from within, offering growth opportunities through its Impact Leadership Institute. Employees are motivated to work hard and always recognized for wins, big and little. Impact’s state-of-the-art offices include game rooms, large kitchens, patios/decks with grills for BBQs, lounge areas, and breakout rooms for privacy. The all-inclusive company-wide trip to Cabo is a nice cherry on top.

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7.

Lennar

  • Location: Southern California

  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Employees: 11,387

The national residential builder Lennar has a culture predicated on doing the right thing and providing a “Tickled, delighted and happy” homebuying experience to customers. Prioritizing the wellbeing of associates, the company employs a chief medical officer and provides healthy-living resources to staff. The company’s investment in professional development includes Lennar Success University, online management training and leadership development programs powered by Harvard Business School Publishing. Associates enjoy discounts on Lennar homes, mortgages, and title insurance. Internal communication through the Lennar News Network focuses on the philanthropic activities of associates. The builder was named to Fortune magazine’s World’s Most Admired Companies list last year.

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8.

Indus Technology

INDUS is a service disabled, veteran-owned small business providing government with expertise in engineering, information technology, cybersecurity, program/financial management, logistics, and data analytics. The company aims to provide every employee a positive and empowering employment experience and have set goals to become the employer of choice. It proudly demonstrates its ethos of developing talent and offering training and development programs that can help staff stay with the organization. Exemplifying this, the CEO travels to offices around the country hosting staff events so he can personally meet all employees.

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9.

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants

  • Location: Los Angeles, California

  • Industry: Hospitality/Travel/Tourism
  • Employees: 4,500

The hospitality group responsible for the first boutique hotel in the United States, Kimpton encourages individuality and reminds staff to “be your best self. It’s those just-you qualities that make it more personal for you, and our guests.” Aggressively passionate about diversity and inclusion, the company prioritizes fun, like its annual pumpkin carving contest. Some perks of working for Kimpton include a fast track to advancement, cross training to become well rounded and discounts at over 5,000 hotels worldwide. Named last year among the best employers for diversity, women and Millennials by Forbes and Fortune magazines, Kimpton even rewards employees’ children for their scholastic achievements.

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10.

Harbor Distributing

Employees can enjoy a cold one with their president and he will remember their name after one introduction. That’s Harbor Distributing, the largest beer distributor in Los Angeles and part of the largest beer distributor in the country. Employees of age are also given cases of beer for holidays and celebratory events. If they over-imbibe, Harbor pays for a taxi, no questions asked. Other perks include swag, golf tournaments, sporting events, concerts, free food and more passed down from suppliers. When it comes to career development opportunities, each employee has a development plan created to help foster their growth.

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11.

LifeMD

  • Location: Huntington Beach, California
  • Industry: Healthcare – Provider
  • Employees: 250

LifeMD, is a leading direct-to-patient telehealth company that provides Americans better access to smarter healthcare in all 50 states. LifeMD understands that building and growing a talented staff is essential to creating truly spectacular healthcare, and that employee satisfaction lies at the heart of this task. Staff work independently, enjoying growth opportunities within the company and periodic catered lunches. The fun includes a pool table and pets in the office, and silly contests throughout the year.

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12.

Children’s Bureau

  • Location: Los Angeles, California
  • Industry: Non-profit – Health & Human Services
  • Employees: 391

Since 1904, Children’s Bureau has been a trusted, innovative leader in child well-being, working to prepare every child to thrive in life and is protected from child abuse. The leadership team works tirelessly to ensure that staff is in the best condition to provide clients with the proper time and attention that they need. Self-care is a key part of agency life to avoid burnout and compassion fatigue. Constant employee appreciation, trauma-informed values, wellness initiatives and work breaks help keep the atmosphere light despite the heavy subject matter of the important work employees do.

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13.

Pango Group

Pango Group is a parent company for a suite of real estate service businesses including neutral third-party settlement services. A Best Place to Work in Los Angeles for at least seven years, Pango is a place where bagels, breakfast burritos, and pizzas just show up during the busy times for employees’ convenience. It’s a place where managers are accessible and know everyone’s name, personalized coaching helps employees reach their professional goals, and financial rewards are a fact of life for reaching sales milestones. Pango is on a mission to create raving fans among customers, partners, and staff.

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14.

Transwestern

An integrated real estate, development and investment management company, Transwestern has created a Best Place to Work by fostering an environment of creative thinking, commitment to communities, and mutual respect among colleagues where team members can succeed personally and professionally. With a purpose-driven culture that champions entrepreneurial, passionate problem-solvers, Transwestern offers the usual employee recognition, remote work option, work-life balance, and in-office fun to relieve stress. The company also features a robust young professionals program in which promising junior staff visit various markets, meet with peers and mentors and make a presentation to leadership.

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15.

Avision Young

  • Location: Los Angeles, California
  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Employees: 3,500

A global real estate advisor, people-first Avison Young fosters a culture of empathy, placing a prime emphasis on work-life balance, physical and mental wellness, and colleague camaraderie. Recognized by Forbes as one of America’s best mid-sized employers, the company recognizes high performers through local and global awards ceremonies. Twenty-three reviewers on Glassdoor listed great people and a great experience overall, and another 13 applauded the great culture as the best aspects of working at Avison Young.

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16.

HED

  • Location: Los Angeles, California
  • Industry: Architecture
  • Employees: 405

This oft-awarded architecture firm loves team building and believes its success over the years results from listening carefully to clients, paying attention to the details, and delivering the talents of everyone in the organization. Employees at HED represent a blend of people from all walks of life who are united by a commitment to create positive change in communities, helping clients reimagine their business, belief in adaptive reuse, environmental responsibility, and finding new ways to enhance the way people live, work and play. Besides exemplary recognition, professional development, and in-office fun, HED puts a special emphasis on employee wellness with its Wellness Wednesday communications and fitness challenges.

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17.

Ceridian HCM

  • Location: Los Angeles, California
  • Industry: Technology
  • Employees: 2,183

Ceridian is a global human capital management software company. A purpose-led company committed to acting responsibly, operating sustainably, and contributing to the greater good, Ceridian’s brand promise – Makes Work Life Better™ – is the commitment Ceridian makes to its employees, customers, their employees, and to the communities in which it operates around the world. Ceridian offers a host of wellness incentives, a week of community volunteering and the most coveted of benefits – meeting-free Fridays.

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18.

LPC West (Lincoln Property Company)

  • Location: Los Angeles, California
  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Employees: 345

Lincoln Property Company (LPC) is a leading commercial and mixed-use real estate developer and property manager. They have remained laser-focused on engaging talented professionals with diverse experience and perspectives who are also a great fit for our company culture—which encourages inclusivity, sensitivity, equality, and humility—and promotes treating each other and others with kindness and respect. LPC West offers the unique employee benefit of PTO for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.

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19.

Tokio Marine America

  • Location: Pasadena, California
  • Industry: Insurance (non-healthcare)
  • Employees: 296

For over 100 years, Tokio Marine America (TMA) has offered comprehensive commercial property and casualty insurance. TMA’s “Good Company” philosophy looks beyond profit, delivers on commitments, empowers its people, and does the right thing. It aims to empower its people by supporting opportunities for continuing education, providing tuition assistance for professional designations, and offering leadership development programs. Offices close the day before holidays and weekends and its relaxed dress code and birthday observances make it a comfortable work environment. TMA is a Best Place to Work in Insurance the last six years, according to BusinessInsurance.com,

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20.

Fenix Consulting Group

Fenix Consulting Group represents the world’s most recognizable brands and helps them deliver immediate results. What makes Fenix a Best Place to Work is a competitive and fun environment, performance-based promotions and pay incentives, travel and networking opportunities, an open-door policy throughout the organization, and daily personal and professional development. Twenty-five percent of the company’s resources are invested into the development of the team. Named a Best Places to Work 10 years running.

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21.

Viewpoint School

A TK-12 school set on an idyllic 40-acre campus, Viewpoint cultivates the critical skillset, courageous mindset, and resilient identity of each student. Team members share a common purpose – to serve students and prepare them to go into the world to lives of leadership. From the faculty and staff to the school leadership, there is a healthy balance of long, tenured employees and new talent, contributing to a thriving environment. Employees enjoy a unique set of benefits, including 50% off tuition; interest-free computer loans; alternative transportation incentives; yoga, dance, and swim challenges; and the coveted annual chair massages.

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22.

Macias Gini O’Connell LLP

  • Location: Los Angeles, California
  • Industry: Accounting
  • Employees: 582

MGO is one of the fastest growing business advisory and CPA firms in the country. Some of the biggest perks of working at MGO include the opportunity to provide and receive continuous feedback — you always know where you stand and can make real, positive change; an incentive compensation plan; rewards and recognition programs; and referral bonus programs. The firm also provides a community-focused wellness program to encourage a healthy lifestyle, generous PTO system, parental leave, and a full benefits package that goes beyond your traditional insurance. Fun events include tea dates with co-workers, Jeopardy competitions and bingo.

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