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For the Second Year in a Row, World Wide Technology is Named to "Best Places to Work For®" List by FORTUNEST. LOUIS --(Business Wire)-- World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), a market-leading systems integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions, today announced that it has been named to the 2013 FORTUNE "100 Best Places to Work For®" list. This is the second year in a row that WWT has received this honor. Selection to the FORTUNE "100 Best Places to Work For®" list is a recognition sought by a large number of companies, yet only 100 elite organizations are ultimately selected. This year, WWT is honored to be recognized once again for a corporate culture that combines productive, people-focused work environments with strong growth and operations. WWT occupies the number 24 spot on the list, moving up from 50 in 2012. Today, WWT joins the ranks of the widely admired companies that have won in the past, including SAS, Cisco, Edward Jones, Google (News - Alert) and NetApp. To select the companies for the "100 Best Places to Work For®" list, FORTUNE conducts a truly comprehensive annual workplace survey that reviews detailed applications sent in by hundreds of companies. Before selecting a company for its list, FORTUNE considers a wide-range of criteria, including company practices and culture, and even employee feedback. This year, the full list and related stories of the 100 companies on the list are currently available at www.fortune.com. Additionally, WWT will be among those companies featured in FORTUNE's print issue, available on newsstands in February. Comments on the Announcement
To pick the 100 Best Companies to Work For, FORTUNE partners with the Great Place to Work Institute to conduct the most extensive employee survey in corporate America: 259 firms participated in this year's survey. More than 277,000 employees at those companies responded to a survey created by the Institute, a global research and consulting firm operating in 45 countries around the world. Two-thirds of a company's score is based on the results of the Institute's Trust Index survey, which is sent to a random sample of employees from each company. The survey asks questions related to their attitudes about management's credibility, job satisfaction, and camaraderie. The other third is based on responses to the Institute's Culture Audit, which includes detailed questions about pay and benefit programs and a series of open-ended questions about hiring practices, methods of internal communication, training, recognition programs, and diversity efforts. After evaluations are completed, if news about a company comes to light that may significantly damage employees' faith in management, we may exclude it from the list. Any company that is at least five years old and has more than 1,000 U.S. employees is eligible. For information on how to apply, visit www.greatplacetowork.com. About World Wide Technology (News - Alert) World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) is a systems integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions to the commercial, government and telecom sectors. The company brings to market a powerful blend of knowledge, infrastructure and technology to help its customers manage the planning, procurement and deployment of IT products and solutions. Based in St. Louis, WWT works closely with industry leaders including Boeing (News - Alert) (NYSE: BA); Dell (NASDAQ: DELL); Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO); EMC (NYSE: EMC); HP (NYSE: HPQ); AT&T Inc., (NYSE: ATT); VMware (NYSE: VMW); Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS); NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP); Microsoft (News - Alert) (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the U.S. Air Force. WWT employs over 2,200 people and operates more than 2 million square-feet of warehousing, distribution and integration space in 38 facilities throughout the world. For more information on WWT, visit www.wwt.com.
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