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There are some companies that know how to keep their employees happy, while there are others where staff is usually unhappy.
Let's take a look at companies where workers are most happy.
Source: careerbliss.com
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20 companies where employees are most happy
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Pfizer
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Headquarters: New York, United States
Revenue: $58.98 billion
Employees: 91,500
Happiness score: 4.139
Average salary: $83,000
Rank in happiness: 1
Pfizer, which is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies by revenue in the world, keeps its employees happiest.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: An employee talks with a customer inside a pharmacy in the Glyfada suburb of Athens, Greece.Photographs: Yiorgos Karahalis/Reuters
Kaiser Permanente
Industry: Healthcare
Headquarters: Oakland, California, United States
Revenue: $47.9 billion
Employees: 190,900
Happiness score: 4.122
Average salary: $76,000
Rank in happiness: 2
Kaiser Permanente, which is the largest managed care organisation in the United States, operates in nine states and the District of Columbia.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: Components of an iPad are laid out during a teardown by iFixit's Luke Soules in Glen Ellen, Virginia. Apple's iPad includes chips from Samsung Electronics Broadcom and Texas Instruments.Photographs: Molly Riley/Reuters
Texas Instruments
Industry: Semiconductors
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, United States
Revenue: $12.82 billion
Employees: 35,759
Happiness score: 4.120
Average salary: $81,000
Rank in happiness: 3
Texas Instruments, which is the third-largest manufacturer of semiconductors in the world, is considered one of the most ethical companies in the globe.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: A robotic tape library used for mass storage of digital data at the Konrad-Zuse Centre for applied mathematics and computer science in Berlin, Germany.Photographs: Thomas Peter/Reuters
EMC Corporation
Industry: Computer storage
Headquarters: Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States
Revenue: $21.713 billion
Employees: 60,000
Happiness score: 4.118
Average salary: $89,000
Rank in happiness: 4
EMC Corporation, which offers data storage, information security and cloud computing, is one of the largest provider of data storage systems in the world.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: People sit next to a Qualcomm stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.Photographs: Albert Gea/Reuters
Qualcomm
Industry: Telecommunications equipment and semiconductors
Headquarters: San Diego, California, United States
Revenue: $24.87 billion
Employees: 26,000
Happiness score: 4.114
Average salary: 87,000
Rank in happiness: 5
Qualcomm, a semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services, operates in 157 locations around the world.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: A KBR sign adorns the Halliburton corporate headquarters near downtown Houston, Texas.Photographs: Tim Johnson/Reuters
KBR
Industry: Engineering, construction and private military contractor
Headquarters: Houston, Texas, United States
Revenue: $9.1 billion
Employees: 27,000
Happiness score: 4.095
Average salary: $86,000
Rank in happiness: 6
KBR, which is an engineering, construction and private military contracting company, is the largest non-union construction company in the United States.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: A trader passes by a screen displaying the tickers symbols for Bristol-Myers Squibb on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange.Photographs: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Revenue: $20 billion
Employees: 30,000
Happiness score: 4.063
Average salary: $81,000
Rank in happiness: 7
Bristol-Myers Squibb, which is a pharmaceutical company, has operations around the world, including India.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: A man enters the General Electric building at 1250 Avenue of the Americas in New York.Photographs: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
General Electric
Industry: Conglomerate
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Revenue: $147.35 billion
Employees: 305,000
Happiness score: 4.053
Average salary: $75,000
Rank in happiness: 8
General Electric, which is the fourth-largest company in the world, operates through four segments: Energy, Technology Infrastructure, Capital Finance and Consumer and Industrial.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: People walk past a Capital One banking centre in New York's financial district.Photographs: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Capital One
Industry: Financial services
Headquarters: Virginia, United States
Revenue: $21.39 billion
Employees: 40,000
Happiness score: 4.051
Average salary: $67,000
Rank in happiness: 9
Capital One, which specialises in credit cards, home loans, auto loans, banking and savings products, pioneered mass marketing of credit cards.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: Lobby of Avaya offices and lab in Westminster, Colorado, United States.Photographs: Rick Wilking/Reuters
Avaya
Industry: Telecommunications
Headquarters: California, United States
Revenue: $5.17 billion
Employees: 17,000
Happiness score: 4.048
Average salary: $87,000
Rank in happiness: 10
Avaya, which supplies contact centres, networking hardware, unified communications and video products, is a major player in networking systems and the unified communication systems.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: A man passes by Germany's Siemens headquarter in Munich.Photographs: Michaela Rehle/Reuters
Siemens
Industry: Conglomerate
Headquarters: Munich, Berlin and Erlangen, Germany
Revenue: 78.29 billion euros
Employees: 405,000
Happiness score: 4.047
Average salary: $70,000
Rank in happiness: 11
Siemens, which is a German multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate, is the world's largest electronics and electrical engineering company.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
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Cognizant
Industry: IT services and IT consulting
Headquarters: New Jersey, United States
Revenue: $7.35 billion
Employees: 162,700
Happiness score: 4.040
Average salary: $70,000
Rank in happiness: 12
Cognizant, which is an information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing company, has been named the third most admired IT services company in the world.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
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Intel
Industry: Semiconductors
Headquarters: California, United States
Revenue: $53.34 billion
Employees: 104,700
Happiness score: 4.039
Average salary: $80,000
Rank in happiness: 13
Intel, which is a semiconductor chip manufacturer, is one of the biggest companies in the world.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
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Apple
Industry: Computer hardware, computer software, consumer electronics and digital distribution
Headquarters: Cupertino, California, United States
Revenue: $170.91 billion
Employees: 80,000
Happiness score: 4.022
Average salary: $64,000
Rank in happiness: 14
Apple, which designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers, is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: Expanded Disneyland California Adventure Park features Luigi's Flying Tires, air vents that drive guests in vehicles of oversized tyres to float above the ground, bumping other tyres to catch an inflatable ball at the park in Anaheim, California.Photographs: Alex Gallardo/Reuters
Walt Disney Parks & Resorts
Industry: Theme parks
Headquarters: Burbank, California, United States
Revenue: N/A
Employees: N/A
Happiness score: 4.019
Average salary: $60,000
Rank in happiness: 15
Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, which is one of Walt Disney Company's five major business segments, is responsible for conception, building and managing of the company's theme parks and vacation resorts.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
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Fidelity Investments
Industry: Financial services
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Revenue: N/A
Employees: 41,000
Happiness score: 4.018
Average salary: $78,000
Rank in happiness: 16
Fidelity Investments, which is a financial services corporation, is a major player in financial services industry.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
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Allstate
Industry: Financial services
Headquarters: Northfield Township, Illinois, United States
Revenue: $32.65 billion
Employees: 37,000
Happiness score: 4.011
Average salary: $58,000
Rank in happiness: 17
Allstate, which is he second-largest personal lines insurer in the United States, also sponsors major sporting events.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: A woman takes pictures with Nokia's smartphone in New York.Photographs: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Nokia
Industry: Telecommunications equipment
Headquarters: Espoo, Finland
Revenue: 30.176 billion euros
Employees: 97,800
Happiness score: 4.000
Average salary: $92,000
Rank in happiness: 18
Nokia, which used to be the second-largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world in 2012, has operations around the world.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: Ted DeVore, a senior sales executive with Prudential, walks back to his car after placing for sale sign in Leawood, Kansas, United States.Photographs: Dave Kaup/Reuters
Prudential
Industry: Financial services
Headquarters: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Revenue: $34.4 billion
Employees: 50,100
Happiness score: 3.999
Average salary: $61,000
Rank in happiness: 19
Prudential, whose subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management and other financial products and services, operates in the US and 30 other countries.
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20 companies where employees are most happy
Image: FedEx Panda Express aircraft carrying giant pandas Tian Tian and Yang Guang lands at Edinburgh airport in Scotland.Photographs: David Moir/Reuters
FedEx
Industry: Courier
Headquarters: Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Revenue: $42.7 billion
Employees: 300,000
Happiness score: 3.987
Average salary: $59,000
Rank in happiness: 20
FedEx, which is a global courier delivery services company, operates in almost all countries.
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