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SAS #2 in Fortune Best Companies to Work For

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Seems like we've been here before.

It is January, so time again to announce the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For in the US. This year SAS is at #2, our fifth straight year in the top 3, over which our average rank has been 1.8.

We've covered this topic a couple of times before (2011: Best Company to Work For -- Again and 2013: What good is being a "great place to work"?), so you can refer to these previous blog posts for details. But I would like to point out a nice video that appeared on NBC's Today show this morning. (My only disappointment is that, just like when they shot Iron Man 3 in my building in 2012, I wasn't invited to represent the face of SAS. Apparently I have a face better suited to blogging.)

The best part of being a great place to work is that it provides a great environment for providing value to customers. None of this matters and none of this will last -- none of the perks or anything else -- unless SAS employees can deliver software and services that make a difference. That's what we are trying to do, and shown we can do, through 38 consecutive years of profitable growth.

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Mike Gilliland

Product Marketing Manager

Michael Gilliland is a longtime business forecasting practitioner and formerly a Product Marketing Manager for SAS Forecasting. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters, and is Associate Editor of their practitioner journal Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. Mike is author of The Business Forecasting Deal (Wiley, 2010) and former editor of the free e-book Forecasting with SAS: Special Collection (SAS Press, 2020). He is principal editor of Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions (Wiley, 2015) and Business Forecasting: The Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Wiley, 2021). In 2017 Mike received the Institute of Business Forecasting's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2021 his paper "FVA: A Reality Check on Forecasting Practices" was inducted into the Foresight Hall of Fame. Mike initiated The Business Forecasting Deal blog in 2009 to help expose the seamy underbelly of forecasting practice, and to provide practical solutions to its most vexing problems.

1 Comment

  1. Michelle Homes on

    Congrats SAS! As a SAS user and partner, it's also great to read so many positive comments in the social media today by employees, including this post. It shows your enthusiasm and support towards the company you work for.

    So how does the forecast look? ;-)

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