GoDaddy Tops Workplace Rank
Scottsdale, Arizona – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – December 17, 2007 – Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy, has been honored by The Business Journal, through its ranking as one of the Valley’s ”Best Places to Work,” with a number 19 placement among large Valley companies.
Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com noted, ”I learned a long time ago that happy employees are the key to success. Our strategy is to make Go Daddy a fun place to work and that’s why we reward our teams with great prizes in the contests we hold weekly, monthly and sometimes daily.”
”The Best Places to Work” ranking has been achieved by GoDaddy for the past four years. It is based on employee surveys which measure retention rate, manager effectiveness, team effectiveness, employee alignment with company goals, trust in senior leadership and trust in fellow coworkers, among other performance categories. The data is compiled by Quantum Market Research and finalists are put into categories based on company size.
GoDaddy.com employs more than 1850 people, most right here in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Its employees have unrivaled knowledge of the Internet, e-business and software development. The company prides itself on its competitive salaries and extraordinary perks, such as this year’s prize for an all-expense paid vacation for two around the world, complete with extra time off and spending money.
Last year, Mr. Parsons shelled out close to $1 Million to employees in gifts and prizes. As one of the Valley’s major employers, Parsons may be best known for his innovation and generosity, which is demonstrated by the actual contest prizes, like paying an employee’s mortgage for an entire year, and giving away cars, motorcycles and exotic vacations. It’s a distinction that has earned GoDaddy.com national recognition for having great ‘employee perks.’
Kim Cilke, Human Resources Vice-President of GoDaddy.com added, ”Our CEO almost always gives away MORE than we plan at company events, but the best part is he foots the tax bill for all the prizes on top of everything else.”
Over the years, GoDaddy.com has received many accolades as a top employer, including four consecutive years on the Best Places list and recognition from the CNN Money list of Best Perks. GoDaddy.com was also named the 2007 Arizona Business Leader of the Year and won this year’s ACE Award for Most Innovative Company, which like CNN, noted Go Daddy’s unique employee incentives.
Go Daddy is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and also has offices in Phoenix, Mesa, Gilbert, Tempe, as well as Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Denver, Colorado. The company is currently looking for highly-talented, motivated professionals to join its dynamic team.
The Go Daddy Group, Inc. is a domain name registrar with more than 22 million domains under management and 24-hour-a-day customer support. More than 4 million customers are serviced by Go Daddy for domain registration, web site hosting, email and related Internet services. Go Daddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy also provides a variety of on-demand and other services. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2006, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info.
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