According to a poll by Fast-Company Harris, 59% of middle-income workers are contemplating changing jobs this year. While this number comes as a staggering surprise to most employers, this statistic doesn’t prove true for APS employees. APS’ company culture awards have confirmed the organization’s employee sentiment to be the opposite. Out of 60,000 North American companies, our employees have ranked us in the top 5% of U.S. companies for Best Company Outlook in 2021.
Our employees have given us over 2,135 ratings, earning us a spot in the top 50 U.S. companies for Best 2021 Outlook. Ranking alongside companies like Zoom and Microsoft, this award demonstrates APS’ commitment to enhancing its technology for its customers while providing a positive workforce culture for its employees.
What is the Best Company Outlook Award?
Comparably presents the Best Company Outlook Award to companies that have already proven themselves successful throughout 2020 and continue to accomplish goals throughout 2021. Comparably collected ratings for the award during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020 through March 2021), with its purpose to help current job-seekers find a great place to work.
How To Earn Best Company Outlook Awards
To earn Comparably awards like Best Company Outlook 2021, an organization must be successful at employee engagement and market positioning. Authentic employee ratings and sentiment about an organization’s success determine the award recipients.
An organization has to maintain a high level of employee engagement for workers to leave ratings in the first place. For the Best Company Outlook award, Comparably based rankings on a combination of questions, including:
How confident are you about the future success of your company?

Are you typically excited about going to work each day?

How likely are you to recommend working at your company to a friend?
These questions are where market positioning comes into play. The company needs to have already proven itself successful to its staff. Employees need to have a positive perception of a company’s goals and direction to rank it high for future success.
Note: Employees answered questions about their organizations anonymously and Comparably used their feedback to determine award recipients.
Your New Career Starts Here!
At APS, we’re passionate about helping our employees succeed. We do this by providing them with the right tools to handle their job and proactively keeping them engaged and informed. We have a mission to make payroll and HR easier for organizations, and we are looking for individuals who will help us achieve this goal.
What Employees Have to Say

This is the best company I have ever worked for, hands down. I was hired almost three years ago, and I have not even thought about updating my resume.

I love to represent a company that upholds such a strong reputation. Because of this reputation, it’s always so exciting to bring on new clients - which is what makes me most happy!

I love to see our quarterly and annual numbers to celebrate our success as a company. I also love to hear what our next goals are, so I know we are always looking to push ourselves to the next level.
About APS
At APS, we’re dedicated to our customers and our employees. Awards like Comparably’s Best Company Outlook are vital to us. In 2020, we committed more than ever to support our employees and our customers through the pandemic. This award earned rankings throughout the 2020 year, demonstrating our commitment to keeping our employees (and in turn, our customers) top-of-mind no matter what.
Since 2019, APS has earned awards on Comparably for Best Company Culture, Best Company for Work-Life Balance, Best CEOS For Women, Best Company Happiness, Best Company Perks and Benefits, and more. Our employees’ success is our success, and we celebrate our accomplishments together.
About Comparably
Comparably (www.comparably.com) is a workplace monitoring site that provides a comprehensive overview of what it’s like to work at U.S. companies. Employees can access salary data and anonymously rate their workplaces in over 20 culture categories. This provides job-seekers with insight into authentic employee experiences across genders, ages, tenures, industries, locations, educations, and ethnicities.
Since launching in 2016, Comparably has accumulated 10 million ratings from employees across 60,000 North American companies. It has become one of the most used SaaS solutions for employer branding and one of the most trusted third-party sites for salary and workplace culture data. For highly-cited workplace culture and compensation studies, including Comparably’s annual Workplace Culture Awards: www.comparably.com/news.
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