• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Chart Your Course International

We help businesses transform themselves into exceptional places to work that attract, retain and motivate people to their full potential.

“Creating Great Places to Work”

Call 770-860-9464

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Gregory P. Smith
    • What We Do
    • Photo Gallery
    • Press Center
    • Client List
    • Testimonials | Speaking
    • Client Testimonials | Training
  • Keynotes
    • Watch Videos
    • Topics
    • Client Testimonials
    • For Meeting Planners
    • Request Speaking Engagement
  • Solutions
    • Take a 5-Minute Organizational Health Check
    • Consulting Projects
    • Suggestion Campaign (BIC)
    • Employee Retention
    • Executive Retreats
    • Team Building Workshops
  • Training
    • Custom Training
    • Online Training
    • Leadership Courses
    • DISC Workshops
    • Customer Service Programs
    • Healthcare Customer Service
  • Assessments
    • Why We Are the Best
    • FREE DISC Report
    • Sample DISC Assessments
    • DISC Reports
    • Sales
    • Emotional Intelligence Report
    • Organizational Surveys
  • Certification
    • DISC Certification Virtual – Live
    • DISC Master Certification
    • One-on-One Web Certification
    • Self-Study DISC Certification
    • Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
    • Certified DISC Trainers
    • Live Driving Forces Program
    • Driving Forces Self-Study
    • Client Testimonials
    • Members Only
  • Resources
    • Free DISC Report
    • Navigator Newsletter
    • Evaluate Your Business – Free Health Check
    • Articles
    • Free DISC E-Book
    • Teambuilding Exercises
  • Shop
  • BLOG
  • Login
  • Contact

July 18, 2007 by Greg

SAS | TOP 100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR

SAS Best Place to Work

Employee retention would not be an issue if all companies treated their employees as well as this company. SAS institute Inc. is a privately held software company located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park.

Employee Retention Training Workshop

SAS resembles a college campus more than a software development company. Everything from the baby grand piano in the company cafeteria, to the giant outdoor chess board, and resident artists gives clear indication this company is a world apart. They have made Fortune magazine’s “Top 100 Best Companies to Work For,” for several years running.

Many people say working at SAS is like working with your family. Their 5000+ employees find SAS to be a positive environment focusing on creativity and innovation. In some cases, SAS becomes the closest thing to a “real family” than many people have experienced at home.

Turnover hovers around 3.7 percent and has never exceeded 5 percent in its twenty years of existence.The average for most industries is between 17 – 30%. Company loyalty destroyed by many corporations, is alive and well at SAS. During the height of the Dot Com Boom, one SAS graphic designer turned down job offers from Silicon Valley for as much as 40 percent more money because he favored the environment SAS provides. Here are some of the perks and benefits employees enjoy.

  • Unlimited sick leave: There is no limit to how much sick leave employees can use. Jim Goodnight, SAS President, PhD and billionaire believes if you treat adults like adults they will act as adults. Whether you are out sick for six days or six months it is not a problem.
  • On Site Daycare: For $250 a month, employees can place their children in the day-care facility. Parents are encouraged to eat lunch and dinner with their children. The company cafeteria is equipped with highchairs.
  • Free Family Healthcare: They provide free onsite healthcare in addition to full medical, dental, vision and hearing coverage that is 100 percent paid by the company for employees and greatly subsidized for covered dependents. Employees can elect an onsite doctor as their primary care physician, or use another offsite doctor of their choice. SAS staffs a medical clinic 24 hours a day for employees and their family members. This saves the company $300,000 a year in health insurance costs and saves thousands of hours of lost time.
  • Equal Pay for Equal Work: Many businesses run off good employees because new hires are able to start making higher salaries than the “old” employees. Not at SAS. If SAS has to hire new employees and pay them more, all employees with the same skills levels receive the same pay raise. The average salary is $50,000 a year.
  • 35-Hour Workweeks: All employees work five seven-hour workdays. They are encouraged not to stay past 5 p.m.
  • Break Areas & Free Food: Each floor has its own break area stocked with complimentary refreshments, including all the M & M’s employees can eat. SAS spends $45,000 annually on 22 tons of the little chocolate candies.

Loyalty can’t be bought by benefits and perks, but SAS appears to have created a workplace where employees know they are cared for, trusted, and treated like adults. Learn more about the SAS Institute in the book, Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Transforming Your Workforce from High Turnover to High Retention.

Join our monthly newsletter and get 7 free reports

Filed Under: Good Places to Work, Human Resource Management, Job Satisfaction, Leadership Tagged With: employee engagement, employee retention, human resource management, job satisfaction, transformational leadership

Primary Sidebar

Search This Site

DISC Certification & Training

View Training Calender

Have Questions? 800-821-2487 or 770-860-9464

Preview Management Training Courses | Free Previews

Free Online Course Preview

Team Building Exercises

img

Complete 100% Money Back Guarantee

Our Newest and Latest Version!

icebreakersrotary

Best Icebreakers and Teambuilding Exercises Digital E-Book Pdf

Automatic Download of the E-book within seconds after you click on the “Buy Now” button on our store.. You can read it on your computer in PDF format if you like, or print it out on your printer. No shipping charges.

More information 

Icebreakers and Teambuilding ExercisesIcebreakers & Team Building Exercises – E-Book Version

  • Co-Operation
  • Crash in Piranha Valley
  • Golf Ball in the Bag
  • Space Mission to the Moon
  • Torpedo Weapons Loading Exercise
  • Scavenger Hunt
  • Terrorist Toxic Explosive Situation

 

More information

Bright Ideas Facilitator Kit

Order the Kit
Bright Ideas Employee Suggestion Campaign

Footer

IMPORTANT LINKS

  • Free Newsletter
  • Free Resources
  • DISC Certification Training
  • Executive Retreat Facilitators
  • Store
  • Blog
  • Management Training Programs
  • Privacy

RECENT POSTS

  • Getting Your Oil Changed the Ritz-Carlton Way March 21, 2023
  • How To Retain Employees in an Unstable Job Market December 15, 2022
  • 3 Tips for Training Leaders to Work With Remote Teams October 25, 2022
  • Why Hiring is Irrelevant if You Can’t Solve Retention August 24, 2022

LOCATION

Chart Your Course International
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

(770) 860-9464
CONTACT US

Free ebook

Online Training Courses

SPECIAL SAVINGS! GET 50% OFF ALL COURSES (770) 860-9464

©2002-2023 Chart Your Course International Inc