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OUR DECEMBER 26 issue debuted the Just 100, ranking the country’s best corporate citizens. Maggie McGrath’s cover story chronicled how the scrum to attract top talent has prompted American companies to shower their workers with perks and benefits—“Competition is the new union,” as we put it. Said M&A analyst Dinesh Advani, “Employees have the power to be your biggest promoters or your biggest detractors, and I know which I’d rather have.” (Cover star Brian Krzanich, CEO of top-ranked Intel, muddied his company’s victory with a post-press-time stock sale before news broke of a major Intel-chip security flaw in early January. Tsk, tsk, sir.) Krzanich’s actions aside, many readers clamored for further tales of corporate kindness. “Please keep writing about companies with heart,” offered Benita Lee. “We need to know they’re out there.”