In Scottsdale, Arizona, one of the best places to work since 2004 and repeating for the sixth year in a row is GoDaddy.com. Business Journal ranked the Internet’s largest combined domain registrar and web hosting provider among the “Valley’s Best Places to Work”.
GoDaddy.com
Proclaimed the world’s number one domain name registrar by Name Intelligence, GoDaddy.com provides services and products enabling businesses and individuals to create and maintain an online presence. The company provides domain name registration covering a large number of suffixes (.com, .net, .org and many others), web site design, web hosting and many other on-the-fly services. Customers with GoDaddy.com may purchase SSL certificates, domains by proxy and privacy registration, e-commerce hosted web sites, fully designed and software installed blog web sites, and even podcasting and online photography web hosted accounts are made available. With over 38 million domain names under its belt, GoDaddy.com estimates a domain is either newly established, renewed or transferred every second.
Rated
Quantum Market Research compiles data on companies being rated for the yearly “Valley’s Best Places to Work” honor. The ranking is based on surveys completed by GoDaddy.com employees which measure retention rates, the effectiveness of the managerial team, efficiency of work teams, company and employee goal alignments, trust levels of employees in their co-workers and senior staff as well as other performance-based criteria.
Success
With over 2,400 employees, GoDaddy.com has its work cut out for them keeping everyone happy and enjoying their work with the company. The company does this very adeptly with incentives and prizes being given to its top performers. Mortgages paid for a year, new cars and motorcycles purchased, all expenses paid vacations, and chances to step inside the GoDaddy.com “cash-blowing machine” are just a few of the ways employees are rewarded.
It seems there is no stopping the success of the top domain name registrar either. Even in the economic times being felt the world over, GoDaddy.com has seen increased growth and a 22% revenue gain over the course of the year. The company has recently thrown a no-expenses spared holiday party in downtown Phoenix, Arizona to celebrate and further reward its employees. As GoDaddy.com has offices not only in Arizona but Iowa, Colorado, Washington DC and the Netherlands, all out of the area employees were flown in and given hotel accommodations – again, all on the company’s dime.
Honors
GoDaddy.com’s CEO and Founder, Bob Parsons, has stated he learned quite some time ago that employees that are happy create customers that are happy. Bob has always desired that the company be a fun, rewarding place and offers an employment package matched by very few other companies in the same class. It is this attitude that has garnered GoDaddy.com many other honors including CNN Money’s list ranking for Best Perks, Arizona Business Leader of the Year and the Alfred P. Sloan award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility on three separate occasions.
Currently the company has more than one hundred jobs available for the taking. With as much as GoDaddy.com gives to its employees, it is hard to imagine these jobs staying open for very long.
February 18th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Go read Bob Parsons blog. He is clearly one of the biggest douche on earth.