Move over, Google. According to a new ranking, Sanofi, FedEx, and Apple are among the world's most creative companies. The analysis was done by ViewsOnYou, a site for employees and hiring departments to match up personality fit in businesses. Users log in with their LinkedIn and Facebook logins, review themselves by key personality traits — including measures of creativity, ambition, and appetite for risk — and then invite their peers to review them, too. Several standard psychological models are used to assess employees, such as the five-factor OCEAN model that measures openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Tens of thousands of professionals around the world have reviewed themselves, creating employee snapshots for hundreds of large companies, including Google, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, and Walmart.
According to ViewsOnYou, the following 25 companies have the most creative employees in the world:
1. Sanofi Industry:
Drug manufacturer Headquarters: Paris, France
2. Toyota Motor Corporation Industry:
Auto manufacturer Headquarters: Toyota City, Japan
3. Grant Thornton Industry:
Accounting services Headquarters: Chicago, Ill., U.S.
4. Qualcomm Industry:
Communication equipment Headquarters: San Diego, Calif., U.S.
5. FedEx Corporation Industry:
Delivery services Headquarters: Memphis, Tenn., U.S.
6. Apple Industry:
Electronics Headquarters: Cupertino, Calif., U.S.
7. CBC Television Industry:
Media Headquarters: Toronto, Canada
8. Universal Music Group Industry:
Music Headquarters: Santa Monica, Calif., U.S.
9. Viacom Industry:
Media/Entertainment Headquarters: New York, N.Y., U.S.
10. Qatar Airways Company Industry:
Travel services Headquarters: Doha, Qatar
11. Costco Wholesale Corporation Industry:
Discount goods Headquarters: Issaquah, Wash., U.S.
12. Smith & Nephew Industry:
Medical equipment Headquarters: London, U.K.
13. Verizon Communications Industry:
Telecom services Headquarters: New York, N.Y., U.S.
14. Cathay Pacific Industry:
Travel services Headquarters: Lantau, Hong Kong
15. Virgin Group Industry:
Diversified travel, telecom, financial services Headquarters: London, U.K.
16. Intel Corporation Industry:
Technology Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif., U.S.
17. Colgate-Palmolive Company Industry:
Consumer goods Headquarters: New York, N.Y., U.S.
18. Marks and Spencer Industry:
Department stores Headquarters: London, U.K.
19. The Boeing Company Industry:
Aerospace and defense Headquarters: Chicago, Ill., U.S.
20. Eli Lilly and Company Industry:
Drug manufacturer Headquarters: Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.
21. Warner Music Group Industry:
Music Headquarters: New York, N.Y., U.S.
22. News Corp Industry:
Media Headquarters: New York, N.Y., U.S.
23. Volvo Car Corporation Industry:
Auto manufacturer Headquarters: Gothenburg, Sweden
24. Alcatel-Lucent Industry:
Communication equipment Headquarters: Paris, France
25. Merck & Co. Industry:
Drug manufacturer Headquarters: Whitehouse Station, N.J., U.S.
Origin via businessinsider.com