BOSTON — FleetBoston Financial has announced that Fleet has been ranked eighth in Computerworld Magazines’ “100 Best Places to Work in IT.”
For the eighth year in a row, Computerworld conducted its annual survey to identify the 100 best places in the U.S. to work for IT professionals. Fleet is the highest ranked bank on the list.
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“Being recognized as a best place to work is a source of great pride for our company and all of our IT associates — recognition that an IT career at Fleet is professionally challenging and personally satisfying,” said Joseph Smialowski, Vice Chairman, Technology and Operations for FleetBoston Financial.
Over the past several months, Computerworld conducted an online survey of chief investment officers, vice presidents and hiring executives at Fortune 1000 and major high-tech consulting firms from January through March 2001.
Criteria for the Best Places list included revenue size and a minimum IT staff of 15 employees. Two hundred and thirty companies met the criteria and were evaluated to create the top 100 list.
The Top 100 all rated high in six categories: diversity, training, career development, and benefits, hot projects and retention. Similarities in corporate philosophy were also priorities, demonstrating that:
- Information technology was central to their success;
- Management took an active role in employee careers; and
- There were no walls between IT and business.
Last year, Fleet ranked 20th on the prestigious list. Fleet has trumpeted its efforts to become a leader in studying and implementing work/life programs that have helped employees integrate their personal and professional lives.
Recognizing the need of employees to spend more time with their families, Fleet was one of the first companies in the United States to adopt a progressive WorkLife benefits program. Fleet’s innovative efforts to help employees integrate their work and family lives include: a program that assists employees dealing with elder-care issues; Diversity Resource Groups; domestic partner benefits; financial support for adoptive parents; school release time for parents of school-age children; two paid volunteer days; and flexible work arrangements, to name a few.
Fleet is described as a true “employer of choice” — with low turnover and high staff loyalty.
“For years, Fleet’s technology unit has been identified as a premier place to work,” said Christine DeMichael, Director of Human Resources, Technology & Operations for FleetBoston Financial. “We are proud of that and continue to develop innovative programs to foster a professionally challenging, diverse, and personally satisfying workplace. We are committed to continue our enhancement of employee policies, training programs, compensation, and WorkLife programs that go above and beyond traditional programs.”
