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Congratulations to the Best Workplaces for CommutersSM from the FORTUNE 500 Companies!

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Sixty-nine companies made the inaugural list of Best Workplaces for CommutersSM from the FORTUNE 500 Companies by offering outstanding commuter benefits to their employees at one or more work sites across the country. The "best of the best" employers made a special Top 20 list—representing the companies with the highest percentage of employees working at Best Workplaces for Commuters work sites.

Top 20 BWCs from the FORTUNE 500 Companies

Rank

Company

Percentage of
Eligible Employees

1

Intel

92%

2

Fannie Mae

78%

3

Cisco Systems

77%

4

USAA

65%

5

Sun Microsystems (tie)

60%

5

Oracle (tie)

60%

7

Advanced Micro Devices

59%

8

Texas Instruments

58%

9

Safeco

55%

10

EMC

54%

11

Hewlett-Packard

53%

12

Apple Computer

51%

13

Devon Energy

49%

14

Nike

48%

15

Reliant Energy

45%

16

International Business Machines

44%

17

Wyeth

38%

18

WellPoint Health Networks

37%

19

Dynegy

32%

20

El Paso

31%


View the full list of Best Workplaces for Commuters from the FORTUNE 500 Companies.

Where are the FORTUNE 500 qualifying work sites?


How the Top 20 are ranked

The Top 20 employers on the list of Best Workplaces for Commuters from the FORTUNE 500 Companies are ranked by the percentage of their total U.S. workforce eligible for outstanding commuter benefits that meet EPA's National Standard of Excellence. The percentage was calculated by dividing the number of employees working at Best Workplaces for Commuters qualified work sites by the company's total U.S. employment.

Supporting Organizations

EPA thanks the following organizations for their invaluable support of this campaign:

  • Alliance for Work-Life Progress Exit Web site
    Sponsor of the National Work-Life Initiative, a multi-year, national campaign that educates the business community about the impact of work-life effectiveness on key business drivers.

  • American Lung Association Exit Web site
    For 100 years, the American Lung Association has been the lead organization working to prevent lung disease and promote lung health through research, advocacy, and education.

Join us next year!

It isn't too early to start positioning your company to be on next year's list. As long as your company is one of FORTUNE Magazine's 2005 FORTUNE 500 companies (published in March 2005) and meets the program criteria, you can get on the list. To determine if your work sites qualify as Best Workplaces for Commuters, check our Do We Qualify? page. For additional information, please contact us.

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