Workplace
100 Best Companies to Work For 2015: Perks
Special Award for Perks: TUNEThough tech startups are common in Seattle, the founders of Tune have created something original. The mobile marketing firm specializes in connecting advertisers and mobile platforms while providing attribution analytics to both. Tunes founders twin brothers Lucas and Lee Brown are as passionate about their employees as they are about their…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2015: Companies Headquartered Outside Washington
#1: Buckland & TaylorNorth Vancouver, british columbia-based Buckland & Taylor, a member of Denmarks COWI Group, has become known as the engineer of record on some of the worlds most famous bridges. B&Ts Seattle office has a slew of notable projects to its name, including the Ohio River Bridge Downtown Crossing in Louisville, the new…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2015: Small Companies
#1: Metrix EngineersJosh Robischon spent 15 years as an engineer at a Seattle-area HVAC and plumbing-design company. In that time, he and a small group of colleagues realized that the secrets to engineering success were threefold: Stay small and nimble; satisfy and add value for your clients; and create a positive workplace culture for your…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2015: Midsize Companies
#1: Summit ImagingSummit Imaging began in 2006 as a garage project of Lawrence Nguyen, who recognized the demand for fast, reliable servicing of ultrasound equipment. Nguyens company has since grown to become a leading provider of ultrasound equipment service and repair. The Woodinville firm serves clients across the globe and now employs more than 40…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2015: Large Companies
#1: Zillow Inc.If you ever find yourself as a new employee at Zillow, get ready to have some fun. The Seattle-based online real-estate information titan is anything but buttoned up. First, youll be issued a FitBit and a friendly challenge from your new coworkers to keep moving throughout the day. Then youll receive an Amazon…
100 Best Companies to Work For Awards 2015
In the links below, we highlight 13 firms that stand out as great companies to work for. But the entire list of the 100 Best Companies deserves applause for exhibiting the kind of leadership and entrepreneurial spirit that make people look forward to a day at the office. Using detailed survey responses from employees of…
A positive outlook among small businesses isn’t reflected in business spending.
An Interesting survey from US Bank finds small businesses in Washington are optimistic about the local economy, but aren’t translating that optimism into more hiring or investing. Here’s the release: SEATTLE (May 12, 2015) Washington small business owners are more optimistic about the national economy than their counterparts across the country and, beyond that, they…
Seattle-Area shows second highest growth in job openings in the nation.
The Seattle-Tacoma area has had the second fastest growth in job openings with 76,230 jobs available, up 4.94 percent from the month before, according to Santa Clara-based Simply Hired. The fastest growing urban area was Pittsburgh with a 5.27 percent growth in job openings. The data suggest that the U.S. economy is in a rebound…
Health Insurance Doubts
For 15 years, Scott Magraw offered the employees of his Poulsbo fine cabinetry firm, Magraw Zecha & Associates, health insurance through a business association. But even before Washingtons new Healthplanfinder Business opened last year, Magraw decided hed had enough of trying to manage health insurance options for his employees. Quite honestly, I just hate being…
Perspectives from PwC: CEOs are asking themselves what if…
Wearable sensors become good enough to transmit streams of highly accurate biometric data? What if devices start to dominate the volume of Internet conversations? What if cash disappears? Or our cars are networked to the surrounding infrastructure? Or hospitals become so inviting that well meet there for lunch after our annual flu shot at the…
Seattle and Tacoma had 81,490 job openings in December, up 2.83% from November
The number of job openings in Seattle and Tacoma increased 2.83% to 81,490 in December from the month before. That increase was sharply higher than the 1.73% increase nationwide according to Simply Hired, a job search engine. The Top Hiring Companies in Seattle and Tacoma in order were: Amazon Microsoft University of Washington Providence Health…
Embracing Employee Stock Ownership
Is an ESOP right for your business?
Walk through the neat and efficiently laid-out factory near Westfield Southcenter mall, where Red Dot Corporation manufactures heating and air conditioning systems for heavy vehicles, and you may notice, hanging from the ceiling, a giant copy of a check for $640,000. The original check was presented to an employee to buy back Red Dot shares…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2014: Midsize Companies
Midsize Companies | 1st Place Smartsheet.com Location: Bellevue / Employees: 91 / Top Score: Leadership of Executive Smartsheet.com may be the biggest Washington business you’ve never heard of. While few people outside the tech sector have heard of this Bellevue-based company, its global presence is huge. Smartsheet’s work and collaboration management application is used by…