The best place to work

Posted at 5:59 AM on August 15, 2008 by Bob Collins (3 Comments)
Filed under: Surveys and trivia

The Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal is out with its list of the best places to work.

According to a news release, here's the criteria:

To be eligible for consideration as a Business Journal Best Place to Work, companies had to have an office in the Twin Cities 11-county metro area with 10 or more employees, or be Minnesota-based companies with at least 1,000 employees in the state. They also had to have a certain number of employees, depending on company size, complete the online survey.

The online survey part of it is a little questionable. One can imagine the benevolent boss begging the employees to click the survey.

Here's the list:

Administaff Inc.
Arts Midwest
Azul 7
C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.
Capella Education Co.
Carmichael Lynch
Certes Financial Professionals Corp.
Clockwork Active Media Systems
CMGRP Inc.
Colliers Turley Martin Tucker
Comcast
Ecolab Inc.
Ecumen
First Financial USA Ltd.
Fortune Financial
Fredrikson & Byron
Goff & Howard Inc.
Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett
Great River Energy
Harbinger Partners Inc.
HealthEast Care System
Horizontal Integration
Intertech Inc.
Into the Mystic Inc.
JRA Financial Advisors
Lakeview Health
Lancet Software Development Inc.
LarsonAllen
Lindquist & Vennum
Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc.
Olson
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly
Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg + Gotlieb
RBA Inc.
Reside
Riverbridge Partners
Salo
Securian Financial Group Inc.
Solution Design Group Inc.
SPS Commerce
Tobin Real Estate Co.
Vibrant Technologies Inc.
Wells Fargo
Wenck Associates Inc.
Winthrop & Weinstine

If you work at one of those places, what's so great about it. If you work at another place not listed, why do you think it shold -- or shouldn't -- be on the list.

(PS: I'll be on the road to St. Cloud this morning. Posting will be sporadic until the afternoon)

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Comments (3)

I work at Ecolab. It's certainly the best company I've worked at in quite some time.

It's not a "sexy" company; it makes soap! (among many other things). But it focuses on the bottom line, dominates its market with innovation and good-old-fashioned blocking and tackling, and is stable. It almost feels like a throwback; a guy can stay there for decades, rather than years.

And the company shares the joy; the CEO and upper level execs make good money (and deserve it!), but pay is good, benefits are the kind of thing you hardly see in the private sector any more, they give the best 401K match I've seen recently, and they pretty much always give at 10-15% annual bonus.

Compared to some of the companies I've been at (including some of MN's biggest, including a few on the list), it's a little bit of heaven.

Posted by Anonymous for Now | August 15, 2008 7:20 AM

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"The online survey part of it is a little questionable. One can imagine the benevolent boss begging the employees to click the survey."

That's what our management did. And we're one of the 'top 100 places to work in IT'. Or so says the survey. The irony: we're a survey company...

Posted by bsimon | August 15, 2008 9:53 AM

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Why does the criteria only relate to company size? Where does Compensation, Health Insurance, Management Style, etc. factor in?

Posted by Joel | August 15, 2008 9:59 AM

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