North Bay Business Journal

Video slideshows with comments by executives from the top-scoring Best Places to Work 2011 companies on two questions: What makes your company one of the Best Places to Work in the North Bay? What does this acknowledgment mean to you?

Welcome to the Business Journal’s sixth Best Places to Work in the North Bay. The record 67 companies selected this year and featured on these pages are once again inspirational and instructional, providing the North Bay with key benchmarks for what makes a company a great place to work.

Companies selected as Best Places to Work in the North Baywere analyzed by the editorial staff of the Business Journal on the basis of several criteria, including the employer application, the survey ratings by employees, the number of responses, size of the company, the breakdown of responses from management and non-management as well as written comments by employees.

Contest benchmark dates, figures over the years, top-scoring companies per category, six-time winners, average company score.

Read profiles of the 67 companies that won the Business Journal’s annual Best Places to Work competition and comments from the top three scorers in each size category. Also, find out how the winners were chosen and see figures from the competition in past years.

Winners are listed alphabetically in their size category.

Winners are listed alphabetically in their size category.

Winners are listed alphabetically in their size category.

Winners are listed alphabetically in their size category.

Profiles of winners Agilent Technologies and Kaiser Permanente

Executives from Golden Living Center of Petaluma, Moss Adams LLP and Sonoma Technology Group answer: What makes your company one of the Best Places to Work in the North Bay? What does this acknowledgment mean to you?

Executives from Bradley Real Estate, Exchange Bank and Redwood Credit Union answer two questions: What makes your company one of the Best Places to Work in the North Bay? What does this acknowledgment mean to you?

Embassy Suites of San Rafael, Petaluma Health Center and Sonic.net executives two answered questions: What makes your company one of the Best Places to Work in the North Bay? What does this acknowledgment mean to you?

Executives from Codding Enterprises, Innovative Business Solutions and Métier answer two questions: What makes your company one of the Best Places to work In the North Bay? What does this acknowledgment mean to me?

Executives from Agilent Technologies and Kaiser Permanente answer two questions: What makes your company one of the Best Places to Work in the North Bay? What does this acknowledgment mean to you?

If there is a single company this year that exemplifies what Best Places to Work in the North Bay is all about, it is W. Bradley Electric. The Novato electrical contractor had won the award for three consecutive years — 2007, 2008 and 2009. Then came 2010. It was nominated and went through the employee and company survey process, but was not selected as one of that year’s 55 winners. In 2011, WBE is back as a winner. What went into making that happen?

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.