"It's hard to walk into a room without connections but it gets easier and networking is invaluable."

While amenities are always nice  — and certainly many of our nominees provide some cutting-edge ones — a Best Place to Work is a far more encompassing concept, including such matters as how employees are treated, the tenor of the corporate culture and the relationship the CEO and executives have within the enterprise and outside of it.

LYND has created a program called Lynding a Hand and is teaming up with its 20,000-plus residents to support healthcare workers on the front lines fighting the COVID-19/novel coronavirus pandemic.

Buildings now compete differently than they have before, says Linda Aronson, JLL's regional manager for property management for the New York Tri-State market