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Top Workplaces 2013
Company’s direction top concern for employees
If you are a motorist, bicyclist or pedestrian on a journey, directions are significant. Reaching the destination can become difficult without instructions — north or west? left or straight? — mapped out for you. Similarly, for employees, a crucial factor influencing how much they appreciate their company is direction. ...
Time for the bad bosses to learn from the good ones
The balance of power in the workplace is starting to shift. As the economy improves, the bosses who have been using fear of job loss to bully their workers — instead of treating them with respect — will increasingly find themselves behind the curve, as valuable employees bolt for better ...
Q&A: Top bosses
By Mike Tierney For the AJC The heads of the three companies recognized as metro Atlanta’s top workplaces — Steve Wagner of Virtual Properties Realty, Mike Pitcher of LeasePlan and Adam Blitzer of Pardot at ExactTarget — field questions on various topics ranging from communication and employee training to gearing ...
Family gathering
What was striking for a visitor at the Virtual Properties Realty headquarters in Duluth on Valentine’s Day eve was what did and did not adorn its walls and doors. Heart-shaped paper cutouts that seemed more fitting for a classroom declared “VPR Agents Are Loved” and “VPR Agents Rock.” Absent were ...
‘Put the inmates in charge of the asylum’
All morning, they streamed in and out of what resembled three furniture showrooms, examining the tables, chairs, sofas and general decor. Alison Kirkland plopped onto a couch and surveyed the scene. Rising, she said, “I do really like this.” Like the others, Kirkland was not a shopper, per se. Instead ...
Embracing a new world
By Mike Tierney For the AJC Strolling through the lobby of an elegant Buckhead office tower, amid the suits and the skirts, was a backpacked 20-something in shorts, sweatshirt and Crocs. Anyone familiar with the building’s tenants had little doubt where the young man was headed: to the 34th floor, ...
How top workplaces are selected
How did the AJC select its list of top workplaces? And how can a company be nominated? More than 1,200 companies were nominated or asked to participate in the 2013 contest by the AJC and its partner, Workplace Dynamics, after employees across the metro area responded to print and online ...
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