Dive Brief:

• Fortune and Great Place to Work have published their first-ever ranking of the best workplaces for millennial workers — a list of 100 employers who scored the highest among workers under the age of 35.
• Respondents to the survey, some of the 54 million millennial employees who constitute the largest generation in the U.S. workforce, say they desire open communication, risk-taking, collaboration, support among employees and fewer internal politics.
• Fortune also posted an article on the key things co-workers and HR should know about millennials.

Dive Insight:

Taking a wild guess, most would expect a tech or sharing economy company to show up as the first two or three most coveted places to work for this group of young workers. Wrong.

Power Home Remodeling, a Pennsylvania-based exterior home renovation company, finished at the top, enjoying high marks for attention to career development and creation of new opportunities for its employees. Houston-based home builder David Weekley Homes finished second and Allied Wallet, the Los Angeles-based electronic payments company, is third.

There were plenty of tech employers on the list, of course (Google was #25, Twitter #31), but marquee names such as Apple and Microsoft were conspicuously absent. Two HR-related tech companies, Ultimate Software (#6) and Workday (#7) finished in the top 10.  HR leaders looking to crack the top 100 for next year can find out how here.