[Vision2020] Why don't any top 100 companies have any Idaho site?

Reggie Holmquist reggieholmquist at u.boisestate.edu
Wed Jan 26 13:02:48 PST 2011


What were the other 14 states?  Maybe we can find some correlations.

-Reggie

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

> A little data analysis on the latest Forbes list of 100 best companies at
> which to work indicates those companies employ about one and a half million
> employees, and they plan to hire about 43,000 employees this year. That's a
> growth rate of about 2.86 percent.
>
> The list indicates those 100 companies have 303 work locations in 50
> states.
>
> Idaho is one of fourteen states that have no work sites for those
> companies.
>
> Why is that the case? Why can't Idaho attract any business representation
> from
> any top 100 company? What does this reflect about Idaho's characteristics?
>
>
> Ken
>
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