Business Journal names 67 Best Places to Work
By Tiana Sandoval, Event Development Manager
NORTH BAY — The Business Journal has selected a record 67 businesses and organizations as honorees in its sixth-annual Best Places to Work in the North Bay, it was announced today.
The winners were selected by the Business Journal editorial staff from more than 120 nominations based on several criteria, including the results of an anonymous employee survey and a company application that provided information on issues such as diversity, benefits and community involvement.
The companies range in size from 20 employees — the minimum required — to 4,500. There were nearly 5,000 responses to the employee survey.
Seven outstanding companies are six-time winners: Burr Pilger Mayer, Exchange Bank, First Community Bank, Ghirado, CPA, Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa and San Rafael Medical Centers, Redwood Credit Union and Valley Tire & Brake. The total number of winners was up from 55 in 2010 and include many new participants.
“First, congratulations to the winners and thank you to all the companies that participated in the process over these last several months,” said Business Journal Editor and Associate Publisher Brad Bollinger. “What was so clear about our winners is how hard everyone from management to the front line work at maintaining a environment where people feel valued and can thrive even in challenging times like now.”
Profiles of the winners will appear in a special publication supplementing the Sept. 26 issue, and winners will be honored at a gala reception Sept. 29 at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Rosa. For more information, call 707-521-5264.
The winners are listed by employee size and survey score (highest to lowest):
20-50 employeesInnovative Business Solutions Inc. Métier, Ltd Codding Enterprises O’Brien Watters & Davis LLP Smith Dollar PC Bank of Napa Accuchex Payroll Management Services Private Ocean Quattrocchi Kwok Architects Friedemann Goldberg LLP Ghirardo CPA Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. Burr Pilger Mayer Inc. Schurter Inc. Groskopf Warehouse & Logistics Ledcor Construction Inn Marin Heffernan Insurance Brokers Optio Solutions LLC Valley Tire & Brake Summit Engineering Inc. Carlile Macy Westminster Woods Camp and Conference Center TLCD Architecture Frank Howard Allen Realtors Vantreo Insurance Brokerage Mr. Rooter Plumbing of Sonoma County Cardno ERI Play-Well TEKnologies Dal Poggetto & Company LLP BKF Engineers Ghilotti Bros. Inc Marizco Landscape Management Inc. |
51-100 employeesGolden Living Center — Petaluma Moss Adams LLP Sonoma Technology Inc. Summit State Bank St. Francis Winery & Vineyards Sequoia Senior Solutions First Community Bank Costeaux French Bakery, Inc. Umpqua Bank Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, Inc Petaluma People Services Center Circle Bank George Petersen Insurance Agency Inc. Infineon Raceway Filtration Group Inc. Coast Landscape Management 101-250 employeesEmbassy Suites Hotel Sonic.net Petaluma Health Center Collotype Labels USA, Inc. Nova Group Inc. REACH Air Medical Services W. Bradley Electric Inc. Cagwin & Dorward IDEX Health & Science Bank of Marin Goodwill Industries of the Redwood Empire La Tortilla Factory |
251-500 employeesBradley Real Estate Redwood Credit Union Exchange Bank Becoming Independent 1001+ employeesKaiser Permanente Santa Rosa & San Rafael Medical Centers Agilent Technologies |
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Simply being a good place to work does NOT equate to it being a good place to do business, in fact, the reverse is probably more the norm. When employees feel too secure, they too often ignore customers requirements. Thanks for the list, I will do my best to avoid such places.
by Randy
I guess it is easy for Goodwill Industries of the Redwood Empire to win Best Places to Work, in spite of telling their employees there was no money for the previous four years for raises, while the President and all the Vice Presidents got huge raises. All they had to do was fire the people who they lied to for four years after they got fed up with being treated like they did not matter to the company, everyone else was just happy to have a job or to afraid they would lose the one they had. …
Yep, definitely one the best places to work for no pay, no recognition and no respect.
I guess that leaves only one question. Will North Bay Business Journal print this post?
by Christian Vaughn
I find it interesting that you post stories and give your readers the opportunity to voice their opinions about what you have written. Yet, if it is not something that you “like” you do not post it. People have a right to share the information that they have and know and your readers have the right to read it. And I do not find it abusive to simply share the truth going on behind the closed doors of some of these businesses. For example: While you have named Goodwill Industries of the Redwood Empire one of the best placed to work, did you know that they force their employees to complete those surveys and to give high ratings so that they can get this title? I bet you did not know that. But I know because I was once upon a time forced to fill one out myself. Goodwill is not one of the best places to work- just ask any former employee because we have some stories to tell!!!!!
by Heather
Very interesting
by yep
Congratulations to Goodwill and the President and the Vice President of Workforce Development, you are a success. It is too bad that you did not recognize anyone who helped you get there. I will always remember exactly what the President said when I asked him why there is no recognition for employee accomplishments since there was no money for raises, he replied, “the recognition is having a job.” Yep, definitely one the best places to work for no pay, no recognition and no respect.
by Christian Vaughn