High Scores "Strongly agree" Score Industry Rank Encouraged to take risk in work  100.0  1 Work-life balance  93.3  3 Less stress at work  90.2  3 Low Scores "Strongly agree" Score Industry Rank Exciting growth opportunities  82.7  13 Regular and constructive feedback  83.9  11 Top management doing enough for growth  81.9  18 Dream Job "Strongly agree" Score Industry Rank Work-life balance  79.1  1 Organization culture/work climate  52.3  4 Growth opportunity/career development  30.2  16

Though Sun Microsystems featured at the bottom of the Top 20 list on overall HR score, it partially made up for it by bagging the #11 position on the employee score. Surprisingly, from a very low score in the key employee satisfaction parameter of company culture last year, it leapfrogged to #3 position this year. Organizational culture/work climate, along flexible office hours, emerged as a major reason for employee satisfaction.

However, it did not come out as strongly on other important employee satisfaction parameters: job content (#15), salary (#15), and people (#12). Understandably, as the preferred employer, the company slipped from its last year's #2 position to #10 this year, with only 31.4% of its own employees voting for it as their dream company. However, it was placed higher at #5 as a dream company for the industry.