Safaricom ranks best employer in Africa, beats Samsung, Toyota, Unilever

Safaricom has been ranked the best employer in Africa and 67th in the world in a report released by Forbes business magazine.

The second best African employer on the list — Forbes Global 2000: World’s Best Employers — is South Africa’s broadcasting and cable company, Naspers, which ranked 224 in the world.

Safaricom beats popular international employers like Visa, Samsung, Colgate, Dell Technologies, Procter and Gamble, Toyota and Unilever.

This is in addition to its naming on the Global 2000: World’s Largest Public Companies 2018.

The Forbes World’s Best Employer listing was based on employee feedback and included publicly traded companies from 60 countries.

“More than 430,000 global recommendations were analyzed by Statista [an online statistics, market research and business intelligence portal] to create the World’s Best Employers list. Employees were asked to rate their own employer and the likelihood they would recommend the company to a friend or family member.”- Forbes.

Top five world’s best employers are Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Microsoft, Apple, Walt Disney and Amazon respectively.

This, according to Forbes, was based on “high ratings on working conditions and, most importantly, diversity.”