Global giant Amazon has beaten the likes of Sainsbury's and Barclays bank to be crowed Britain's best employer in a new report.
In LinkedIn's latest "Top Companies" poll, workers named the online retailer as their favourite place to work - followed by JP Morgan.
In producing the list, the networking platform analysed firms against four pillars, including how much interest a business has, its engagement levels with staff, job seeker reach and employee retention.
It said many of the firms featured in top 10 have weathered many headwinds and lasted over a century in business, including BP and Goldman Sachs.
Here are LinkedIn's top 10 businesses to work for in the U.K..
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1. Amazon
Amazon employs around 27,500 people in the UK across London, Luton and Manchester.
What may surprise you: Amazon doesn’t use the brain teasers often employed in tech company interviews, telling LinkedIn the tricky questions are “unreliable when it comes to predicting a candidate’s success”.
2. JP Morgan Chase & Co
Across the world, JP Morgan employs more than 253,000 workers, with UK hubs in London, Bournemouth and Glasgow.
What may surprise you: JPMorgan has been aggressively preparing for the next generation of banking: the company invests £92bn a year to fund a team of 50,000 technologists across the globe. That’s more than Twitter and Facebook combined.
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3. Sainsbury's
UK grocer Sainsbury's has approximately 186,900 employees working across its stores, warehouses and head office. Aside from branches in almost every town centre, it also has hubs in London, Birmingham and Coventry.
What may surprise you: Last year, Sainsbury’s opened its first "till-free" store, allowing shoppers to bypass checkouts and pay for products with their phones.
4. GSK Pharmaceuticals
GSK employs around 17,000 people in the UK across London, Stevenage and Twickenham.
What may surprise you: GSK’s LGBT+ network, Spectrum, was voted best employee network group in the UK by Stonewall in 2019.
5. Bupa
Private healthcare firm Bupa employs around 22,000 workers, namely health professionals across the UK. Its main areas are London, Manchester and Brighton.
What may surprise you: The entire executive team of Bupa’s UK insurance arm are qualified as mental health first-aiders, to help colleagues suffering from mental health challenges such as depression or anxiety.
6. JLL Estate agent
Property consultants JLL employs around 82,000 workers in England, with the most jobs going in London, Norwich and Manchester.
What may surprise you: The Ethisphere Institute last year named JLL one of the world’s most ethical companies – for the 12th year in a row.
7. Barclays
One of Britain's biggest lenders, Barclays has around 48,700 workers in the UK, with jobs on offer in London, Northampton and Glasgow.
What may surprise you: Barclays has embraced “Dynamic Working”, a programme that encourages work flexibility. It’s one of the firm’s most popular benefits - 57% of global employees have reported working dynamically.
8. BP
Global gas company BP may have its headquarters in London, but across the UK, it hires more than 16,000 workers.
What may surprise you: BP has reversed traditional mentoring, pairing its 40-something senior executives with 20-something graduates in an effort to inject tech-industry cool into oil and energy.
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9. Goldman Sachs
It may be an American investment bank, but Goldman Sachs has 36,600 UK workers across London, Harrow and Kingston upon Thames.
What may surprise you: Goldman Sachs recently made headlines for relaxing its dress code to keep in step with its predominantly millennial and Gen Z workforce. The bank also pledges to ensure half of its entry-level recruits are women.
10. Engie
Utility company Engie has around 19,000 workers in the UK, with its top UK locations London, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne.
What may surprise you: Engie - which focuses on delivering cleaner air - said it received 300,000 CVs in 2016 and 550,000 in 2018.
