Wayfair.com Named One of the Best Places to Work in 2012

BOSTON, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wayfair (www.wayfair.com), the new mega-site that carries the largest selection of home products anywhere, just landed as No. 19 out of the Top 50 "Best Places to Work" nationwide. This ranking is based on findings from Glassdoor.com, a jobs and career community where employees share candid, anonymous ratings of their current and past employers.

Rankings by industry and city showed that Wayfair also appeared on the list as the No. 3 U.S. retailer and the No. 3 company headquartered in the Boston area.  The overall rating for Wayfair showed strong employee satisfaction, landing at 3.8 on a 5-point scale. Nearly 150,000 companies are reviewed on Glassdoor.com and the top 65,000 were considered for the Best Places To Work list.

"After nine years of building a thriving business that offers our employees all types of opportunities, we are delighted to receive this kind of high praise, especially when you consider that thousands of companies were compared and we were ranked in the Top 20," said Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah. "We hire intelligent, dedicated employees with upbeat personalities and we want to thank them for this honor. They help us to fuel an open culture combining rapid business growth, personal achievement, a strong customer focus, and a lot of fun."

For the 2012 awards, 250,000 reviews posted from September 1, 2010 through November 23, 2011 were evaluated.  Employee reviewers were asked to fill out a 20-question survey that included themes focused on overall employee morale and satisfaction, room for advancement, formal training, work/life balance, and how they rated their CEOs. Shah's approval rating is 98 percent.

"Glassdoor's Employees' Choice Awards recognize stand-out companies that have retained the support and commitment of their employees despite the tough economic climate," said Robert Hohman, co-founder and CEO of Glassdoor. "For companies on this list, we typically get positive feedback on the company culture, benefits and open communication practices, while we also tend to see competitive pay packages and high opinions of the chief executive."

Other companies on the list included: Apple (No. 10), Southwest Airlines (No. 17), J. Crew (No. 24), Procter & Gamble (No. 25), Johnson and Johnson (No. 28), Starbucks (No. 34), NIKE (No. 35), and Groupon (No. 40).

Wayfair now has more than 900 employees and hired as many as 250 in the past year.  Hiring continues for many open positions, including Software Engineers, Buyers, Category Managers, Editors and other roles.  To see a current list of openings, both here and internationally, go to: www.Wayfair.com/careers.

About Wayfair:

Formerly CSN Stores, Wayfair LLC is the parent company for Wayfair.com, which offers a zillion things home – the largest catalog of home items anywhere, crossing all styles and budgets, and covering 5,000 brands of furniture, lighting, cookware and more. With this massive selection of more than 4.5 million products, chances are good people can find just the right items for their homes. Other sites under the Wayfair umbrella include: AllModern.com, JossAndMain.com, and Buyster.com.au.

Beyond its Boston, MA headquarters, Wayfair has an operations and distribution center in Ogden, UT, and another distribution center in Hebron, KY. Wayfair's international offices are in Galway, Ireland, London, Munich and Sydney. Wayfair has surpassed $500 million in revenue this year.

SOURCE Wayfair.com