To answer your question :
Our editors reviewed eight key areas: (1) Physical Workplace; (2) Work Atmosphere & Social; (3) Health, Financial & Family Benefits; (4) Vacation & Time Off; (5) Employee Communications; (6) Performance Management; (7) Training & Skills Development; and (8) Community Involvement.
And, I guess it's prestige to work for the top 100 , including Microsoft, Boeing, IBM, etc.
How they actually get thier data, I'm not sure.
Kinda like the UN selecting the best countries to live in.
I lived with a fedex girl, here at my own home, she did almost the same area I had my route.
She would have never switched to UPS. Money wasn't the thing. And actually, for her only being hired at making $17.02 from the start, was more money then myself after 18 mths ($15.00 start, $16.00 after 6 mths, $17.00 after 18mths, $19.00 after 24 mths, then finally $24.26 after 30 mths).
So, don't give me this crap of 35% lower wages.
She also had a nice truck with cd player/radio and a/c. And was always done after 8hrs work.
Must have been nice for your gal to have a radio, air conditioner and always done after 8 hours. Doesn't sound like the FedEx I work for; but things may be a little different in Canada. By the way, you don't have a clue as to compensation rate differentials between UPS and FedEx in the U.S., so you might as well keep your "crap" to yourself.
Physical Workplace: 120 degree cargo area in the summer, faulty heater in the winter, yup, great workplace.
Work Atmosphere: Implicit Threats standard operating procedure, great workplace
Health, Financial and Family Benefits: Health Premiums that go up 10% annually, coverage that gets trimmed annually, Great place
Vacation and Time Off: Vacation Bid System that prevents anyone with under 5 years from getting any desirable time off and anyone with less than 10 years attempting to get a week off that they really want. No flexibility after bidding. If family has opportunity to meet, the FedEx employee is SOL if they don't already have vacation scheduled.
Employee Communications: GFT, how sweet it is. Couldn't get any better for us.
Performance Management: Don't have a clue about what they are talking about unless it is the performance review system within FedEx. I can't begin to explain what a joke it is.
Training & Skills Development: Couriers were forced to take routes without a single day or orientation on said route (ride along). Policy finally reversed when missed committment times began costing more than potential wage savings. Skills development is limited to regional engineers telling us to get an extra stop per hour and maintain 95% of monthly goal (with the extra stop per hour added in) or expect disciplinary action to be taken.
Community Involvement: FedEx maintains a clean image of itself in PR, but employees are forced to waive minimums or do menial tasks while making up the difference between time on road and minimum guaranteed hours.
As far as the UN selecting best countries to live in...
If you put an credibility in the UN, that says it all. Best socialist paradise is their criteria. Stow the UN.
Your wage structure in Canada must be different... It takes UPS drivers about 3 years to hit 29 USD. It takes 17 years for a FedEx Courier to hit 22.50 USD. You may want to do some more research before you start flinging your fecal material about the string; the wage differential is at least 35%. UPS drivers can net 90.000 a year, FedEx Couriers are doing well to net 50,000 and that is after being topped out.