100 Best Places to Work in IT 2009
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Top 10 ranking: No. 7 for career development Feedback is more than a two-way street at this health services group, it's a multilane highway. IT workers at this Allentown, Pa.-based company receive annual reviews, as well as personalized comments from a team director and the CIO. Plus, each employee's annual review meeting is attended by the employee's manager, a team director and the CIO -- meaning the CIO takes part in more than 200 reviews each year. A "Wild Idea Team," or WIT, is tasked with finding new technologies that might benefit the organization. The group has a mix of managers, analysts and representatives of non-IT departments, and membership rotates on an annual basis. If the group believes an idea has merit, an analyst or small group is assigned to flesh out the details, organize a pilot test and ultimately deploy the technology.
| Rank by company size | Medium, No. 11 |
| Employee Statistics | |
| Total employees | 9,701 |
| Total IT employees | 206 |
| IT employee turnover in 2008 | 7% |
| IT employee promotions in 2008 | 20% |
| Training | |
| Training days offered per IT employee in 2008 | 3 |
| Training budget per IT employee in 2008 | $1,359 |
| Women in IT | |
| Total percentage of women within IT | 47% |
| Percentage of IT managers who are women | 40% |
| Percentage of IT staff who are women | 49% |
| Minorities in IT | |
| Total percentage of minorities within IT | 8% |
| Percentage of IT managers who are minorities | 0% |
| Percentage of IT staff who are minorities | 9% |
