If you are a jobseeker, knowing how to identify a good employer can help you find the best company to work. If you are already employed, you can better evaluate the firm where you work. And if you are an employer, reading Robert Levering’s A Great Place To Work: What Makes Some Employers So Good (And So Bad) will make you to improve the working conditions and the moral of your employees.

Levering found that there are five things that made for a good company to work with, as follows:

1). A friendly place. Few of the companies had separate executive dining rooms, executive parking spaces and other perks that set ranks apart in a social hierarchy. People enjoyed each other’s company.

2. A minimum of politics. Management did not encourage politics by such acts as demoting or dismissing for what employees may perceive as personality conflicts rather than performance deficiencies.

3. You get a fair shake. Employees are treated fairly and not taken advantage of. Complaints are heard impartially and fully.

4. More than work. Employees believe their work has meaning, and that they have responsibility and control over it. They feel free to criticize the actions of other without fear of retribution.

5. Like a family. A caring, nurturing environment in which one’s personal concerns are important to others in the organization, engenders a lifelong career commitment by employees. Exuding a “We’re all in it together” spirit, good workplaces are often more productive and profitable than their competitors.

Looking for a good company to work with can always affect our well-being, personal welfare and career, for the reason that we spend an average of eight hours a day everyday to be with that company.