the author is todd buchholz. todd, thanks so much. > > thank you bill. good to be with you. well, if we're wired to love to work hard, we need to be in a place where we can work happy. the list is out - the top companies to work for. we'll run the names for you, next. think about this: what would the ideal work place be for you? what kind of office design? how about the boss? maybe the atmosphere - dynamic and uplifting perhaps? the world's best workplaces have just been listed in a survey by the branding company universum. they call it "the world's most attractive employers 2012." okay kortney kutsop, your company compiled the numbers. whatwas your measuring stick here? > > yes bill. we actually based our rankings off of the 12 largest economies in the world, and then applied a weighting based on gdp. so, on the engineering side, 68,000 respondents; business, 75,000 respondents. > > obviously with those kinds of numbers, this is probably a pretty good list. let's take a look at one of the two lists. we have engineering first. give us the top five companies, and run through