Fortune 500s top 3 companies are Hilton, Synchrony, and Cisco. These companies boast incredible employee retention, consistent staffing, and experiences that go beyond the workplace. These examples are what should structure any HR department.

 Employees speak of Hilton’s teamwork aspects. They have very strong workforce planning, and employee and labor relationship, but not in the traditional context, more between the employee, and their job.

Synchrony’s success lies in it’s employee benefits, and workplace environment. It’s the trainings, and programs of the workplace that make it such a diverse, creative, and collaborative atmpsphere.

Cisco speaks of purpose, and intent beyond anything else it does. It drives for innovation, speaks for success, and hopes for more than is possible. It’s strategic planning process was well conducted, especially though values, and SWOT analysis.

Beneath all the easily seen examples of success, these companies all share in common great compensation, good accessibility of data, and well managed ethicality within each decision made. It’s this foundation of security that drives the success of all that is above.

So what does this mean for aspiring managers today, right now? It means pay attention to the people. Pay attention to the internal benefits, rewards, compensation, and motivation that encourages the workforce. Pay attention to the trainings and programs that enable the workforce, but most of all pay attention to the strategy underlaid beneath it all.  Values, a mission, proper teams, strengths and weakness, and general cost strategies. The building blocks of all this are the people. A truly diverse workforce can be a blessing and a curse but managed correctly, as these companies have, one can make more than the best of it.

Sources:

 “About Us.” Cisco, 14 Jan. 2026, www.cisco.com/site/us/en/about/index.html.

“Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® 2025.” Great Place To Work®, www.greatplacetowork.com/best-workplaces/100-best/2025. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

“Great Place to Work 2026 Synchrony Financial.” Synchrony, 2026, www.synchronycareers.com/Great-Place-To-Work2026.