Best Places to Work in IT 2026

Top 10: Retention & Engagement

Fostering deeper connections and employee well-being

LARGE COMPANIESMIDSIZE COMPANIESSMALL COMPANIES1Probe CXNational Information Solutions CooperativeConsumers Credit Union2Liberty Mutual InsurancePower Home RemodelingAxon Active Vietnam Co., Ltd.3Navy Federal Credit UnionGuardant HealthIT Convergence, Inc.4Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaCambia Health SolutionsDataprise LLC5The HartfordCredit AcceptanceTokio Marine North America Services6Total Quality LogisticsChenMedOstfriesische Tee Gesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG7UKGPlante MoranAmerisure Mutual Insurance Company8Worthington SteelKinaxisConnexus Credit Union9Cedars-SinaiVyStar Credit UnionWarsteiner Brauerei Haus Cramer KG10University of Notre DameChoice Hotels InternationalBCU

Diversity efforts continue despite backlash

Organizations are still taking steps to foster belonging and encourage diverse perspectives across their IT teams, despite political backlash over formal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. This year’s honorees cited a wide variety of initiatives to promote diverse company cultures, including efforts that celebrate employee differences (88%), recruitment strategies aimed at attracting diverse employees (83%), and formal diversity and inclusion training (80%). Initiatives to create employee resource groups based on common goals and interests rose this year, reaching 91%, compared to 86% in 2024. However, just 35% of the companies supported internships targeting women and minorities this year, compared to 50% last year.

Data Intensity, the No. 7 small company in this year’s survey, takes diversity seriously, given the global nature of its remote-first IT workforce, which is spread across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and India. The managed services provider specializing in Oracle solutions has launched several employee resource groups and holds regular diversity events.

Co-CEO/technology chief Clint Harder takes diversity efforts a step further by working in the company’s Hyderabad, India, office for one to two months every year. “It helps me understand cultural differences, so we can acknowledge the differences and figure out a way to use them to our advantage,” Harder says. “Being face to face with that team helps them understand that I believe in them and appreciate the cultural differences.”

Top 10: Workplace Culture

A commitment to foster belonging and encour­age diverse perspectives

LARGE COMPANIESMIDSIZE COMPANIESSMALL COMPANIES1Cedars-SinaiPower Home RemodelingWarsteiner Brauerei Haus Cramer KG2USAACredit AcceptanceDataprise LLC3Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North CarolinaVyStar Credit UnionTokio Marine North America Services4UKGOCLCBCU5Tractor Supply CompanyPlante MoranPrezzee PTY Limited6H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research InstituteExtreme NetworksAxon Active Vietnam Co., Ltd.7AdventHealthFive9Connexus Credit Union8CDWJanney Montgomery Scott LLCAmerisure Mutual Insurance Company9Navy Federal Credit UnionChenMedData Intensity10Johns Hopkins MedicineCambia Health SolutionsNationale-Nederlanden Vida Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros, S.A.E.

Minority representation in IT is down year over year, to 32% this year from 36% in 2025. But ongoing efforts to entice more women into the IT workforce seem to be working. Women made up 30% of the IT workforce among the respondents this year, up from 27% last year. The percentage of women IT managers is also climbing, reaching 31% this year, compared to 26% in 2025.

At Dayforce, around half of the 40 or so IT managers are women, with nearly the same ratio for the full IT staff. Rasmussen says the company is very intentional about diversity in hiring — selecting an equal number of male and female candidates for interviews whenever possible and giving all of the company’s hiring leaders access to unconscious-bias training to ensure that they are equipped to make objective and inclusive hiring decisions.

The company’s virtual-first policy, which doesn’t require people to be in-office, also helps attract and retain women employees. “Some women opt out of the workforce because they don’t have flexibility,” says Rasmussen. “We are committed to helping them balance their personal and work lives.” — Beth Stackpole

Profiles of three Best Places companies

The Best Places to Work in IT 2026

See the top workplaces for tech pros at large, midsize, and small organizations.

Large organization rankings

5,000 or more employees

1Tractor Supply Company2The Hartford3Cedars-Sinai4Navy Federal Credit Union5Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina6USAA7UKG8Dayforce HCM9CDW10Sophos Ltd.11Johns Hopkins Medicine12Stanford Health Care13University of Notre Dame14CareSource15Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta16Oshkosh Corporation17Baptist Health (Jacksonville)18Unum Group19GSK plc20AdventHealth21H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute22The Christ Hospital Health Network23NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital24Jack Henry & Associates25SUNY Upstate Medical University26RSM US LLP27Avnet, Inc.28Liberty Mutual Insurance29Health Care Service Corporation30The MITRE Corporation31Informatica32Graphic Packaging, Inc.33Worthington Steel34Banner Health35Probe CX36Portland State University37Zebra Technologies Corporation38PPG39TIAA40Total Quality Logistics41Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory42Avery Dennison43ADM44Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)45The Kroger Co.46Motorola Solutions, Inc.47Federal Express Corporation48CVS Health49Casey’s General Stores50Amedisys51EtonHouse International Education Group52UT Dallas53DHL Express U.S.54Applied Materials, Inc.

Midsize organization rankings

1,001–4,999 employees

1Power Home Remodeling2Credit Acceptance3OCLC4Plante Moran5VyStar Credit Union6CME Group7Kinaxis8Extreme Networks9KnowBe410ChenMed11Cambia Health Solutions12Five913Choice Hotels International14National Information Solutions Cooperative15Enova16Aeroflow Health17Miami University18Guardant Health19IGS Energy20Janney Montgomery Scott LLC21FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority)22A+E Global Media23American Fidelity Assurance Company24Genesis HealthCare System25Worthington Enterprises26Planned Systems International27Altia28BairesDev

Small organization rankings

1,000 or fewer employees

1Warsteiner Brauerei Haus Cramer KG2BCU3Tokio Marine North America Services4Dataprise LLC5Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company6Consumers Credit Union7Data Intensity8Prezzee PTY Limited9Axon Active Vietnam Co., Ltd.10IT Convergence, Inc.11MetroStar12Connexus Credit Union13Nationale-Nederlanden Vida Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros, S.A.E.14Abarca Health15Saint Mary’s College16Ostfriesische Tee Gesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG17Hanscom Federal Credit Union18Telecontact S.L.

How we chose the best places to work

Computerworld conducted the 32nd annual survey to identify the best places to work for IT professionals. On April 15, 2025, it began accepting nominations from organizations that met the following criteria: a minimum of 100 total employees and at least five IT employees.

Beginning on April 15, 2025, prior program participants and newly nominated organizations received a 59-question company survey covering a variety of topics, including workplace culture, IT growth, workplace modernization, IT employee retention and engagement strategies, benefits, and IT career development and training opportunities. The survey included a mix of closed- and open-ended questions.

The nomination and company surveys were conducted online. The responses to the company survey were collected and tabulated by a third-party research vendor, Research Results, Inc., in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The company survey closed at the end of July 2025.

For the purposes of this program, small companies are those with 1,000 or fewer employees, midsize companies those with 1,001 to 4,999 employees, and large companies those with 5,000 or more employees.

Scoring the responses from the company survey involved weighting the results in accordance with an established scoring system that was reviewed internally and vetted by a panel of industry veterans from within and outside of Computerworld/Foundry.

The survey process was managed by Jen Garofalo, research director in Foundry’s Global Services group.

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