Glassdoor-wannabe Kununu has released its happiest and unhappiest places to work in the U.S. Here are the winners and losers.
Happiest Cities to Work
- Fresno, California.
- Sacramento
- Louisville
- Los Angeles
- Omaha
- Boston
- Raleigh
- Wichita, Kansas.
- Miami
- Minneapolis
Unhappiest Cities to Work
- El Paso, Texas
- New York City
- Colorado Springs
- Houston
- Albuquerque
- Memphis
- Oakland
- Ft. Worth, Texas
- Tulsa
- Phoenix
The data encompasses the last 12 months (July 2017 – June 2018), and the analysis was based on 82,854 employee reviews located in the the 50 most populous U.S. cities. To determine the cities with the greatest concentration of happy employees, kununu included four key factors they say drive an employee’s contentment. These are 1) company culture, 2) teamwork, 3) autonomy, and 4) support from management.
If you’re not familiar with Vienna-headquartered Kununu, you should probably get acquainted, particularly if you’re into the employer brand thing. The company is well-known in parts of Europe and has been powering Monster’s reviews for a few years now. The company was founded in 2007 (same as Glassdoor) and acquired in 2013 by Xing.
It expanded to the U.S. in 2016 and is realizing growth. “The Kununu brand is getting bigger and more global,” Kununu CEO Moritz Kothe said recently in a company update. “What was laughed at when it was founded more than 10 years ago, is now one of the most relevant sites for job seekers.”
It still has a long way to go, of course, with the likes of Glassdoor and Indeed enjoying the lion’s share of online employee reviews, but it has clearly shown a commitment to being serious about competing.