Fortune magazine prepares an annual report of Best Companies (fortune.com/best-companies/) that ranks companies for workplace environment. The top 15 companies in the 2014 ranking are shown below, together with some basic data about the companies. Fortune magazine's ranking is based upon surveys of employees in 257 participating firms. Survey questions focus on attitudes about management, job satisfaction, and workplace culture.

* These are Houston, Texas, companies founded in the 1970s and 1980s.
** Kansas City, Missouri, consulting firm.

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Use regression analysis to analyze the rankings and to determine if the ranking are related to the number of employees, new jobs (hires) in the past year, or number of job openings. What insights about the characteristics of the best companies do these data provide?

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Number of Number of Organization/Industry Rank Employees New Jobs Openings Google/Media SAS Institute/Software, information technology Boston Consulting Group/Consulting Edward Jones/Financial services Quicken Loans/Financial services Genentech/Biotechnology Salesforce.com/Information technology Intuit/Information technology Robert W. Baird & Co./Financial services DPR Construction/Construction and real estate Camden Property Trust/Construction and real estate 11 Wegmans Food Markets/Retail grocery David Weekly Homes/Construction and reallestate* 1:3 Burns & McDonnell/Engineering** Hilcorp/Oil and natural gas exploration* 42,162 6,588 2,552 38,015 8,386 11,998 6,739 7,728 2,704 1,356 1,784 43,564 1,052 3,817 1,106 4,236 224 238 2,013 2,646 842 1,264 326 84 (13) (116) 496 252 237 94 4,000 94 1,000 3,100 1,210 866 835 1,000 60 10 12 14 63 1,200 100 600 15